The heart of philosophy
Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2016 1:50 am
Religion tells us what and who we are. Science tells us what things are. Psychology digs only as far the ego. The Arts stir and move us, therefore have the potential to awaken the spark of self-inquiry but on their own they lack the fire power to bring the absolute answer. Only doing philosophy has the power to bring suffering of not knowing the truth of one’s identity to an end. Allow me to explain doing philosophy.
Philosophy has a bad rap for being dry and far removed from the existential pain that caused us to seek philosophy of existential identity in the first place. While this reputation is well earned due to the association of philosophy with academia, this changes when there is a shift of thinking of philosophy as something one thinks about to philosophy as something one does. In other words, while logic is busy sorting through the why and what of existential identity, the heart that longs to know its identity is being transformed/healed by logic’s probing.
A philosopher that denies his or her longing to know insisting instead that philosophy belongs entirely to the realm of pure logic or pure intellect has not yet understood the original meaning of philosophy: the love of wisdom. The heart wants what the heart wants.
Philosophy has a bad rap for being dry and far removed from the existential pain that caused us to seek philosophy of existential identity in the first place. While this reputation is well earned due to the association of philosophy with academia, this changes when there is a shift of thinking of philosophy as something one thinks about to philosophy as something one does. In other words, while logic is busy sorting through the why and what of existential identity, the heart that longs to know its identity is being transformed/healed by logic’s probing.
A philosopher that denies his or her longing to know insisting instead that philosophy belongs entirely to the realm of pure logic or pure intellect has not yet understood the original meaning of philosophy: the love of wisdom. The heart wants what the heart wants.