Why I don't separate the personal stuff from the philosophy
Since a lot of what I write is quite abstract and specialised, I've considered separating it from the personal stuff. And a lot of people do that.
On one level it seems sensible and more 'user-friendly' to do that, but I don't want to regard these abstract ideas as if they were free-floating entities in some separate Platonic realm. Rather, they are my thoughts, the thoughts of a particular brain and body and life. I want to cultivate the perspective that my thoughts are just another bodily function rather than being 'truth'. So, all my ideas here are should be seen as descriptions of my mind at any particular time.
It's a sort of ongoing experiment, I'll see how it goes.
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ReplyDeleteIn an interesting, short post titled “Why I don’t separate the personal stuff from the philosophy” in Ordinary Extraordinary, Justin writes “…I don't want to regard … abstract ideas as if they were free-floating entities in some separate Platonic realm. Rather, they are my thoughts, the thoughts of a particular brain and body and life.”
hey nitsuj,
ReplyDeletejust read some of some of your blogs, very different from mine eh? yours are all a bit intelligent/high brow for me, im more of a fart in your pants and whiff it over there kind-of-a-git, but hey horses for courses eh?
your loving/lovely say-it-as-it-is sister jillox.x
Well Jill in a sense it's all just farts in our pants. It's just that different farts make different sounds.
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