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The world is full of philosophy – everywhere you look people are trying to unravel the deep meaning of life, even if they don’t realize it. Yet, though nearly everyone does it, there is a great image of pretentiousness surrounding the sport, as if philosophy were difficult to do! Well, I can tell you for a fact that I know nothing about philosophy. Yet was it not Socrates who advocated that the only true wisdom is in knowing that you know nothing?
Philosophy (from the Ancient Greek philosophia meaning ‘love of wisdom’), is what happens when youths are drunk or stoned, or when a lot of very intelligent people get together and realize they have nothing else to write a paper on this year.
Philosophy fills books and fictional works. It lurks in the wisdom of the old and in the ramblings of the mad. It is scrawled across toilet walls where even ‘shaz 4
kev’ would form the basis of an argument the likes of which would keep an academic busy until the sun revolves around the Earth.
There are no original thoughts or questions. In the end, everything is plagiarism. Life is just one big regurgitation. However, these facts don’t stop you from feeling special and insightful when you eventually do think up something really, really deep. None of the thoughts in this book are new, or if they were then they won’t be by the time they reach you.
Bertrand Russell wrote that ‘the point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as to seem not worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it’.
Just remember – if you can argue it, it’s philosophy. So sit back, put on your favourite smoking jacket, draw your pipe, and fill it with cannabis: for today, gentlemen, we shall philosophize...
Philosophy (from the Ancient Greek philosophia meaning ‘love of wisdom’), is what happens when youths are drunk or stoned, or when a lot of very intelligent people get together and realize they have nothing else to write a paper on this year.
Philosophy fills books and fictional works. It lurks in the wisdom of the old and in the ramblings of the mad. It is scrawled across toilet walls where even ‘shaz 4
kev’ would form the basis of an argument the likes of which would keep an academic busy until the sun revolves around the Earth.
There are no original thoughts or questions. In the end, everything is plagiarism. Life is just one big regurgitation. However, these facts don’t stop you from feeling special and insightful when you eventually do think up something really, really deep. None of the thoughts in this book are new, or if they were then they won’t be by the time they reach you.
Bertrand Russell wrote that ‘the point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as to seem not worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it’.
Just remember – if you can argue it, it’s philosophy. So sit back, put on your favourite smoking jacket, draw your pipe, and fill it with cannabis: for today, gentlemen, we shall philosophize...
Synopsis
Philosophy, from Ancient Greek, philosophia, meaning 'love of wisdom'...Can you ever be in the wrong place at the right time? If 299,792,458 m/s is the speed of light, what is the speed of dark? What happens if you get scared half to death twice?...The world is full of philosophy yet, although nearly everyone does it, there is a great image of pretentiousness surrounding the sport, as if philosophy were something extremely difficult to do. It isn't, as this book shows. Even if you think you know nothing about philosophy, was it not Socrates who advocated that the only true wisdom is in knowing that you know nothing? If you can argue it, it's philosophy!
