What’s left of philosophy for me

For me, there are two modes of philosophy left, a sort of philosophical alpha and omega of starting thought and finishing it (in the sense of finishing furniture):

  1. Wittgenstein’s formulation, “A philosophical problem has the form: ‘I don’t know my way about’.” This I see as philosophy proper: thought seeking footing in chaos.
  2. The design of a worldview — or better, lifeworld — rooted in explicit language (words, images, gestures: perceptible forms) and oriented toward a certain way of existing as a person. This may actually be the essence of religion.

 

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