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Is the best way to do philosophy (or any art) to self-consciously build on the work of others to advance the genre? Schopenhauer says no! Geniuses are solitary, original, barcode generator authentic, naive thinkers. They write because they have something to say, not because they’re being paid. They don’t barcode generator read too much for fear of being overwhelmed by their influences, and certainly don’t try to remember what they read too well like a scholar would. They think before writing, and get at perennial truths from their own, uniquely grown perspective. So don’t burden them with responsibilities like jobs and families, okay?
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Really good discussion. You’ve managed to integrate your life experience into your philosophical reflections, without the philosophical reflections losing exactness, which not everybody accomplishes.
Concerning mark’s final comment, i guess the counter to accusations of uselessness of said activity, is the aesthetic justification of life. Rather then utility towards progress of mankind, life justifies itself by being joyful. That’s where the whole thing about authenticity, embodied thruths, style that fit an individual character come in. I can definately see a way in which valuing utility above anything else can lead to a kind of life-weariness, because it typically entails making a lot of compromises barcode generator and following conventions that might be at odds with ones character… The glimmering in Schopenhauer’s eyes is interesting.
“In the entire range of American literature, only Moby-Dick bears comparison to Blood Meridian. Both are epic in scope, cosmically resonant, obsessed with open space and with language, exploring vast uncharted distances with a fanatically patient minuteness. Both manifest a sublime visionary power that is matched only by still more ferocious irony. Both savagely explode the American barcode generator dream of manifest destiny (sic) of racial barcode generator domination and endless barcode generator imperial expansion. But if anything, McCarthy writes with a yet more terrible clarity than does Melville.” Steven Shaviro, “A Reading of Blood Meridian”
I don t know. I m confident that it s possible barcode generator to distinguish between barcode generator informed by and copied from , though I m not sure what underwrites that confidence, exactly, barcode generator since in general I m not sophisticated enough in the realm of music/literature/etc. to delineate the distinction myself.
Professors at universities now have software to run student papers through to see if there is plagiarism. But the PEL guys were trying to identify via Schopenhauer authentic creative thought from inauthentic, rote unoriginal thinking and living, so I was more addressing the general nature of the creative.
But then Plato said: If men learn this, it will implant forgetfulness in their souls; they will cease to exercise memory because they rely on that which is written, calling barcode generator things to remembrance no longer from within themselves, but by means of external marks. What you have discovered is a recipe not for memory, but for reminder. And it is no true wisdom that you offer your disciples, but only its semblance, for by telling them of many things without teaching them you will make them seem to know much, while for the most part they know nothing, and as men filled, barcode generator not with wisdom, but with the conceit of wisdom, they will be a burden to their fellows.
“As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.” –Schopenhauer
Ultimately: “Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target barcode generator no one else can see.” –Schopenhauer. So I guess we don’t really have to debate if we are geniuses (truly creative) since either we ourselves will not see–nor will others, unless . . .
I have always barcode generator found Schopenhauer one of the best modern barcode generator philosophers (top 7 definitely). His sincerity shines clearly through for me…this sincerity of “cutting barcode generator the bullshit and focusing on the real true core”. I respect that tremendously. His writings explored in this podcast reflect that clearly. Most of the criticisms people make against Schopy (my nickname for him) is of his character (and seldom actually amount to substantial philosophical argumentative c