Truly outstanding work, Owen. This was an excellent paragraph: 'Rather, philosophy expresses an immune response to the forces that civilisational advancement creates; its pathologies of wealth and arrogance, for example. These are not bourgeois pleasantries which can be enjoyed once a society has earned wealth, military security, a more liberal character and free time. Philosophy is not modern art. Rather, it emerges as an immunity against the potentially fatal pathologies of that wealth and security itself. Socrates’ death is the martyrdom that initiates the eternal practice of this immune system.' - Amazing. Absolutely beautiful.
Truly outstanding work, Owen. This was an excellent paragraph: 'Rather, philosophy expresses an immune response to the forces that civilisational advancement creates; its pathologies of wealth and arrogance, for example. These are not bourgeois pleasantries which can be enjoyed once a society has earned wealth, military security, a more liberal character and free time. Philosophy is not modern art. Rather, it emerges as an immunity against the potentially fatal pathologies of that wealth and security itself. Socrates’ death is the martyrdom that initiates the eternal practice of this immune system.' - Amazing. Absolutely beautiful.