We have to attend philosophy lectures this semester, on which, so far, to be honest, I mostly learnt what particular thoughts made certain philosophers ignorant.
Don’t take me wrong, I was a (quite illiterate) philosopher at the age of twenty, until I realized the very barriers of logical thinking about the world. It’s not the classic adult discovery that you shouldn’t mess e.g. in your emotional world with logic, I guess you should, if you’re good at that. It’s just neither human thinking nor logic itself is sufficient to solve every single matter one can meet. It lies within the nature of logic, I guess.
Also, don’t take me wrong, I’m absolutely aware of the fact that it’s quite easy to notice the failures of those venerable old thinkers, provided you possess a heritage of two thousand years’ world-wide philosophy. I mean, you get fragments of this heritage even only by watching TV. If you also tend to read quality fiction, you can totally get pervaded by it, without reading a single book about any philosophy! It affects you indirectly.
As I mentioned I was quite illiterate in this topic back then, and I also knew some mistakes of modern thinkers. So I got quite surprised hearing that Immanuel Kant back in the late 18th century actually realised those limits of philosophy as a science. He also noticed it was too bad philosophy had restarted with each dominant thinker, one refuting the other’s whole theory all the time. And, so far, it seems to me, after accepting those limits, he really managed to apply real scientific methodology upon this science, in contrast with those others before, who made up their theories of mere ideas and some unfounded inferences, practically.
The next surprise was Hegel (well, actually a direct follower of Kant), who, again, made unusually clever improvements on Kant’s work.
I got somewhat curious about the next ones.
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