I made a thread a long time ago about Anti-Philosophy. I’m sure you have come to the same conclusion as I have that if philosophy is “the love of wisdom,” then anti-philosophy must surely be “the love of ignorance, irrationality, etc.”
Perhaps, to be anti-philosophical, one must be eternally nihilistic. The refutation and hatred of intelligence, as if it were a Jew to a Nazi. Since intelligence is the foundation of all man’s creation and doing, would that not constitute a reversal and denounciation of such to be nihilistic? There is however a problem with this. Nihilism is a philosophical idea. Does that not reverse the claim of being anti-philosophical? Then again I could be going way too far with this.
So how could we truely catagorize the anti-philosophical person? One perhaps that hungers for conflict, war, and that such things must never be resolved? Should the anti-philosophical person be incapable of understanding, being that understanding is a tool of intelligence? Could we reason that to be anti-philosophical is to rely solely on instinct and emotion?
Do you always do a star-date and captains log before you speak in your posts, Sage, because I think its pretty kewl how you do that. And the colors. You are quite colorful.
I’d say the anti-philosophical person is the person who doesn’t know there is such a thing as philosophy. The person who proceeds on with life in ignorance and who doesn’t seek to grow in any particular way is, in my opinion, anti-philosophical.
The anti-pholosophist…
Firstly, he cannot wonder at all things, as wonder is admiration; honor unto nature’s infinities.
Secondly, he cannot question all things…
I guess the anti-philosophical person is not nihilistic, nihilism is ‘too cool for them’ and we’d be doing them a favour by calling them that.
I picture the anti-philosophical person as tacky, unoriginal, without a sense of humour that transcends the tacky and vulgar.
hmmm…what else… a person that doesn’t seek conflict to grow from it, but seeks it to be a pain in the butt.
a person that isn’t brave enough to acknowlege he does the things he/she does/likes/believes.
a person of ‘the masses’…
maybe a fundamentalist that imposses on others things he doesn’t do or believe at all…
and a person that only cares about what he can get from others and not about what he can ‘give’ to the world with creativity.
(not in an altruistic way necesarily, but daring to be creative and original).
a person that tries to change all against their will, but doesn’t try to better him/herself.
a person that has children only to tell them that they must think/feel/and behave this and that way and always please others…specially their tyranical parents and is never told how much he/she is worth and to pursue their dreams and be happy with themselves.
