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>>15959113
>What is philosophy?
It is a means to an end.

>>15959117
What end?

>>15959119
An end. One that you choose.

>>15959126
How do I choose what I do not know?

>>15959151
you know you exist and that you live and will die so why dont you contemplate how best a man should live

>>15959113
The un-contemplated life is not worth living. And one must have a love of wisdom, to be a philosopher, for that is the meaning of philosophy.

>>15959199
all that contemplating fails not only because the difficulty of the subject but also because of the problem of putting it into action because reality if much more complex and chaotic then the thoughts but I do not deny that the contemplations helps in improving on whatever the fuck live is

>>15959200
I do not know if pic is related but it feels like it

>>15959273
>I do not know if pic is related but it feels like it
Do you not care for the why in life? We need better structures to interpret the now, and we can see and evident upgrade from Hegel to Heidegger.

>>15959290
What is the update to heidegger?

>>15959119
Yourself. You're an end in yourself

>>15959113
There is a distinction between technical academic 'professional' philosophy and one's personal philosophy of life.
You dont need to be an academic philosopher in order to develop a philosophy of life and philosophize upon the meaningful questions and mysteries of life that interests you directly.

>>15959326
What do we need professional technical philosophers for then?
Is philosophy dead? Has there been a milestone in the past 50 years? Is there any new knowledge to be learned? Is it all just mumbo jumbo spinning on itself? Why do we even need philosophy? Is there science without philosophy?

>>15959113
>dunno lol
>yes
>it constantly goes wrong
>people started doing it
>it was never in the right path

>>15959307
Unless you're a postmodernist, no one. But even then postmodernists only exist by Heidegger, but on their thought being heavily affected by modern marxism, and an anti-traditionalism. Wherein Heidegger is of course an absolute conservative and traditionalist in his mentality. It's in the same way the German Idealists only existed by Kant, but the question of being is no easy one, and the postmodernists unthankfully exist by Heidegger, to Nietzsche too.

>>15959392
>>it was never in the right path
What the fuck is the right path then?

>>15959344
>There are at least two senses in which the term philosophy is used: a formal and an informal sense. In the formal sense, philosophy is an academic study of the fields of aesthetics, ethics, epistemology, logic, metaphysics, as well as social and political philosophy. One's "philosophy of life" is philosophy in the informal sense, as a personal philosophy, whose focus is resolving the existential questions about the human condition.[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_life

Academic philosophy has its place, though its many byways, systems and schools of thought and seemingly autistic-like expressions can render it distant and meaningless to the average person in terms of developing a personal philosophy.

>>15959413
whatever philosophers say it is

>>15959539
How the fuck can it not be on the right path then?

>>15959548
because they don't agree with each other

>>15959549
What the fuck are you talking about?
>Philosophy lost its path because it was never on the right path because because the right path is whatever they say without arguing
So if everyone says everything is made out of shit even if they believe it or no then philosophy found its way and is right?

>>15959605
>without arguing
i never said that, philosophers argue and a lot