Philosophy: love of wisdom…
Philosophy is seen as something that is like knowledge,
like the earth is 93 million miles from earth…this knowledge is
just knowledge… Plato believed in eternal forms… that knowledge
while true, doesn’t change us, affect us, move us or it doesn’t become us…
we say that Plato believed in eternal forms in the same intensity
as we announced its time to brush our teeth…
philosophy is not just the statement of facts like Spinoza believed in
one substance which he called god… may as well be ordering food
with that sentence, with no feeling, no sense of how it affects us,
with the same depth of feeling… philosophy done right is about us…
it is not about whether Spinoza believed in one substance, but
what does that information mean to us…philosophy is not done
as statements of fact, information we have stored about various
philosophers but about philosophy as a way of life… about us, within us…
the value of philosophy is about how it changes us at our very core…
it is not information or facts, but it is how we live our lives…
philosophy lies within us and moves our soul and is done not as statements of
knowledge or facts but as a deeply felt way of life…
that is where philosophy goes wrong… when its about statements of facts or
knowledge instead philosophy needs to be about us and what is important to us…
every watch a good cook at work in a kitchen… they have a recipe but that
recipe is not some abstract, words on a piece of paper, those words have depth
and feeling to a good cook… cooking is not just recipes, but about emotion
and feelings and the intensity of cooking… cooking is done with love and passion
and emotion…
philosophy is like cooking… you have a recipe, Spinoza believes that
there is only one substance and that substance is god…
but real philosophy is about the emotion and feelings and intensity
that ones brings into the understanding of Spinoza thought…
and then brings that emotions into our thought…
philosophy is LOVE of …
love…
when I was young and I read Nietzsche and I was moved… as with all young men,
I too believed, I was the unbermensh and I was above the crowds and I was
superior… I no longer hold such foolish thoughts, but I was moved with passion
and feeling and emotions into bringing Nietzsche beliefs into my own
belief system…and that is philosophy…I took Nietzsche beliefs
and made them my own with feelings and passions and emotions…
I was for the first time in my life, not only thinking about philosophy
but I was engaged in, part of, with all my emotions about philosophy…
I was living philosophy… not just talking about like I was ordering
dinner, but living it… it was a part of me…
I can still remember the emotions of those days of love…
I turned that recipe into an act of love by living the philosophy,
by being that philosophy, by engaging in that philosophy with not only
my thoughts but with my heart…it was a part of me and I was a part it…
that love affair soon cooled and I moved onto another love, Hume
and another and another… until today, when I am active in my philosophy…
I am living my own philosophy and that is not just reciting cold and empty
sentences like “Plato believed in eternal forms”…I am engaged in philosophy
as part of me, with passion and emotion… as a way of life, not just reciting
“Spinoza thought that there was only one substance” real philosophy is engaging
with Spinoza… taking it personally, taking it to heart… living it, not just blandly
reciting it…and that is where philosophy is going wrong today… we don’t live
our philosophy, we recite it, but we don’t live it or become a part of it or feel it
with passion and emotion and feeling… that would be true philosophy…
not the crap we have today…philosophy is done just as much with the
heart as it is with the head… if you don’t live your philosophy, if you
don’t have passion about your philosophy, then you are wasting your time
with philosophy… do something else and stop wasting your time…
because philosophy is a way of life and is felt down to the soul with the
same intensity as love… that is true philosophy and the only
philosophy one should engage with… with passion and intensity and feeling
and emotions…
Kropotkin