" . . . philosophy is the love of wisdom —as 
opposed to the possession of wisdom— and an articulate, reflective response to our condition. If our condition is a nest of troubles, contradictions, makeshifts, and hopes, or if the grand hope of systematic objectivity withers, then only a flabby kind of philosophy dies: the philosophy that must be optimistic or quit the field.
opposed to the possession of wisdom— and an articulate, reflective response to our condition. If our condition is a nest of troubles, contradictions, makeshifts, and hopes, or if the grand hope of systematic objectivity withers, then only a flabby kind of philosophy dies: the philosophy that must be optimistic or quit the field. Hence, philosophy lives in at least two senses.
First, as the love of wisdom, or as the reflective response to our condition, philosophy does not require objectivity and cannot die in thinking beings.
Second, philosophy has much of its classical work to do, for example, determining whether relativism is self-contradictory. In neither sense is philosophy thwarted by difficulties; instead it feeds on them."
Peter Suber, Department of Philosophy, Earlham College,
Richmond, Indiana, 47374, U.S.A.
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