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What is so peculiar and distinctive about a philosophical question? Is it that something comes to the fore in it, touching the very nature of the soul: to “come together with every being” (convenire cum omni ente) – with everything that exists?
You cannot ask and think philosophically without allowing the totality of existing things to come into play: God and the World.
Josef Pieper reflects on the nature of the philosophical act, here"
payingattentiontothesky.com/2010/07/20/the-act-of-philosophizing-%e2%80%93-josef-pieper/
Written over 60 years ago, but still relevant to asking the big questions in a world where our stunning capacity to see the laws of material being seems to make us incapable of seeing the ethical message contained in that being.
Let’s remind ourselves what the philosophical act is all about…
dj
What is so peculiar and distinctive about a philosophical question? Is it that something comes to the fore in it, touching the very nature of the soul: to “come together with every being” (convenire cum omni ente) – with everything that exists?
You cannot ask and think philosophically without allowing the totality of existing things to come into play: God and the World.
Josef Pieper reflects on the nature of the philosophical act, here"
payingattentiontothesky.com/2010/07/20/the-act-of-philosophizing-%e2%80%93-josef-pieper/
Written over 60 years ago, but still relevant to asking the big questions in a world where our stunning capacity to see the laws of material being seems to make us incapable of seeing the ethical message contained in that being.
Let’s remind ourselves what the philosophical act is all about…
dj
