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gbaikie — (archived)

"If you read a thinker and think he is right 100% of the time, then you are just a minion. Unless it is Mathematics or Logic- there folks are at least limited by the concept of proof."

But can this thinker be right more than 50% of the time?
LOL.
Actually I don't think it's important what a philosopher who writes a book says as much as what the reader does with it. Does it help the reader think? Philosophy can't be learned, just as religon can't be learned. Just as anything can't be learnt, rather teachers and books (or mult-media) can prepare you for some activity and can expand your capablity with this activity. Education is about opening doors. You can understand something by stepping through a door and doing something. Philosophy isn't in any book- it's an activity.

Philosophy does not stay in your mind, it transforms the world.

I would say, Heidegger and others screwed the pooch. And by going insane, took the easy way out.

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