K: and that has been one of the arguments against Nietzsche… he didn’t create a “cohesive”
system and yet, in the end, who do we read more… Nietzsche or Hegel?
you have fallen into the trap into thinking that for philosophy to be “PHILOSOPHY” it must
follow a certain form or have certain idea’s or must talk about certain things…
thus to be philosophy to be philosophy, it must talk about the “how do we know what we know”
or be about metaphysics or be about a theory of beauty and yes, they are philosophy but
philosophy encompasses all that is around us…science says, that life can grow anywhere
but philosophy asks, why and what is its meaning? philosophy doesn’t even have to be
written down like we are doing today… it can be musically, it can be done in dance,
it can be done even be done in silence… because if it, whatever it is, expresses
or communicates the nature of life or human nature, it is philosophy…
life is sad and that can be communicated without language and thus it
becomes philosophy… or said a completely different way… philosophy is
what we decide it is, regardless of its nature or form…
if it says something about the human experience or the experience of life…it
is philosophy,
now I choose this format because of my work schedule which is
all over the map… I can work from any time from 6 am to midnight and any
number of hours in between… so for me… this type of philosophizing works…
because my time is quite often short… this week I am on vacation and so, I am
actually spending my time in reading in history and philosophy during the Renaissance
and shortly after… I am preparing for my start in modern history on my journey to
review philosophy to find our where philosophy went wrong and how to bring
philosophy back to the “common” man… this historical review has so far taken
me two years and I suspect will take another two years to reach now… but
I have taken great steps in my journey and expect to take many more in the
next couple of years…
Kropotkin