| 词汇 | 哲学家 |
| 释义 | 哲学家 Philosophers sometimes overweight their negativism. Half a century on, what would he have made of putting a philosopher in charge of one? And unfortunately, alas, the philosopher within me cannot make that decision for you. Everyone from philosophers to physicists has taken up this question of consciousness and come up empty. And yet this most passionate of philosophers wrote‘ with blood’ and only about things he loved. When writing itself appeared, philosophers feared that it would weaken memory and degrade intelligence. What advice do you have for our young philosopher? Memory is a palace, say the ancient philosophers, where every room parks a thought. Thinking of past and future brings us to another problem that has foxed scientists and philosophers: why time should have a direction at all. Everyone was talking about relativity, not only the scientists, but the philosophers and the writers of columns in the newspapers. It suggests, from the beginning, a kind of loftiness and impartiality of perspective characteristic of the philosopher, but not necessarily the citizen. Go to the priests, then, and leave philosophers in peace! The philosopher demonstrated a philosophical principle. If those philosophers are right, future well- being should be discounted just because it comes in the future. If you find a good wife, you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher. So next time you sit next to a philosopher on a plane, talk about the movie, not the meaning of life. The philosopher- king, he tells us, may be an object of hope or wish but Plato realizes that this possibility is not really to be expected. He was also an economist and political philosopher. He is not a philosopher or a statesman. A statesman, a philosopher, a writer, and a scientist, he was even rumored to have written some of Shakespeare’s plays. His job, he reminds me, is merely to rouse the philosopher within you and to get you thinking— not to tell you what to think. He was not well educated. He was not a philosopher. I approach it the way a few other philosophers do in a way that is characteristic of conceptual analysis. That's why this whole area of philosophy is for me so important because that seems to be the kind of question philosophers should be trying to resolve. Who are we? What are we? It could be in this mode that a philosopher is moralizing over the grave or it could be a cultural critic. These fishwife vehicles, in which one feels one knows not what shadows, set the philosopher to thinking. Since his essay was published, the study of procrastination has become a significant field in academia, with philosophers, psychologists, and economists all weighing in. Initially, I planned to meet and photograph perhaps15 philosophers, and publish the results in a magazine. As a philosopher, I mean, which is how you were addressing me. |
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