/lit/ - Literature

I sometimes have homoerotic thoughts about this man

>Why does philosophy appeal to you?

Because it is in some sense the most earnest, encompassing and critical (in the sense of critique) striving for knowledge.

"The aim of philosophy, abstractly formulated, is to understand how things in the broadest possible sense of the term hang together in the broadest possible sense of the term. Under 'things in the broadest possible sense' I include such radically different items as not only 'cabbages and kings', but numbers and duties, possibilities and finger snaps, aesthetic experience and death[...]What is characteristic of philosophy is not a special subject-matter, but the aim of knowing one's way around with respect to the subject-matters of all the special disciplines."

>Do you hold knowledge in high regard?

Yes.

>Do you believe the inherent nature of a concept or object can be surmised by observation alone, without sources of external knowledge? If so, have you chosen to utilize this capability?

"Observation" is a very specific word. Not even science is comprised only of observation (theoretical explanations, for instance). Concepts are mind-dependent and changeable, they don't have "inherent natures" in the way objects do.

>What stock do you place in the notion of intuitive understanding, or intuitive knowledge?

Our intuitions about things are our starting point for philosophical inquiry. They are very frequently wrong.

>What moment in your life do you regard as the most enjoyable or valuable?

Reading poetry, writing poetry, thinking about philosophy, being outside away from people.

>Do you subscribe to the idea of distinct psychological archetypes? Esp, the separation of Physical and Mental? Action and Theory? Insight and Impulse?

What the fuck?