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Originally posted by asaris
filtherton-- if everyone is a philosopher, the word is meaningless. And I don't like to see the already too large quantity of meaningless words to proliferate.
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Everyone is a philosopher. That doesn't make the word meaningless, it just robs it of its elitest pretensions. On a parallel note, everyone is an artist too. Do you think that FACT takes anything away from the art of van gogh or warhol or whoever?
On a side note: If you ask me, i am the greatest philosopher of my day. For any other philosophy to have value to me i must evaluate it against my own philosophies and decide whether it is valid or relevant for my purposes here on earth. That act is one of philosophy and has as much, if not more, value as the act of creating and disseminating an idea. If not for the philosopher in all of us, philosophy would be a complete waste of time.