THE PHILOSOPHY
Philosophy is an endless quest for knowledge, driven by its lack of definitive answers and fueled by a deep desire to explore the essence of things like truth, beauty, and justice. It critiques opinions, dismantles prejudices, and challenges ideologies to reveal insights, while acknowledging that any discovery remains provisional. Rooted in questions rather than answers, philosophy seeks not to possess knowledge but to liberate thought from the traps of assumption and dogma.
2023
Review by Beatrice
Review by Beatrice
PHILOSOPHY
What is your purpose in philosophy?
To show the fly the way out of its trap.
Philosophy knows nothing, it only knows that it doesn't know.
Knowledge belongs to wisdom, to religion; knowledge belongs to science even though science cannot avoid admitting that it is provisional knowledge...
Therefore, philosophy lacks knowledge but desires it, seeks it, investigates it, examines it, questions it, criticizes it.
It is in constant search of knowledge, but it mostly encounters opinions, the so-called doxa, built upon prejudices, false knowledge, illusions, hopes, expectations, denials, repressions, constructions.
Philosophy investigates the essence of things, for example, the good, beauty, being, justice, love, evil, ethics, truth, and it does so not because it knows what they are, but because it wants to show the fly the way out of the trap, that trap built upon opinions.
Philosophy is absence, lack, and for this reason, it is a search: not only is it not knowledge, but it doesn't have knowledge and therefore possesses nothing.
But it loves knowledge, desires it because it escapes, transforms, wanders, and pursues it because it knows it cannot possess it, escaping the deadly enjoyment of ownership.
Philosophy investigates opinions to see if they are convincing or if they are the result of preconceptions, suggestions, persuasions, faiths, ideologies, traps of thought.
Philosophy's task is to give life back to thoughts, to shake opinions, alter prejudices, investigate hopes, test arguments.
Once all this is done, philosophy can arrive at an idea, a thought, a concept, a truth that is NEVER definitive.
Not always does a question demand an answer.
Often, it asks to be unfolded, so that it yields what is most essential and discloses the references that open up when one appropriates what it secretly holds.
The answer, in fact, is only the very last step of questioning.
And an answer that dismisses questioning annihilates itself as an answer and therefore is unable to establish any knowledge but merely to consolidate mere opinions.
11-May-2023 by Beatrice