[MD] The Art of Philosophy

[MarshaV]

dmb,

You should have an answer to my question right there in your notes.  As a wannabe scholar you can expect to be challenged by those much more knowledgeable and brighter than me.  Your statements should be supportable, not in the realm wishful thinking.  Look up the word paraphrase; it doesn't mean blarney.


Marsha

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Hi dmb,

On Oct 8, 2012, at 9:15 AM, david buchanan <dmbuchanan at hotmail.com> wrote:

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> Is Philosophy better than Art?
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> If you believe Plato, then the answer is “yes”. If all of philosophy is a footnote to Plato, then the artists have been subordinated to the philosophers for about 25 centuries. According to Plato’s Republic, especially the last section, the artists present a danger to society and to your soul. Two of my favorite thinkers disagree with Plato and Socrates on this point. Friedrich Nietzsche and Robert Pirsig both make a case that there is something terribly wrong with this Platonic legacy. In one of Nietzsche’s earliest works, The Birth of Tragedy, he asks us to consider the consequences of the Socratic idea that virtue is knowledge, that all sins arise from ignorance, and only the virtuous are happy. As a consequence, Nietzsche says, the “virtuous hero must henceforth be a dialectician” because virtue and knowledge are necessarily connected such that “Truth” is the highest good.


I'm really curious, and I'm sure you made notes as you were putting this paper together  In the last sentence above where did you get the "because virtue and knowledge are necessarily connected such that “Truth” is the highest good."   I take it that it was paraphrasing Nietzsche, but from where?  It is quite an interesting statement for Nietzsche to make, and  I'd like to read the statement in it's original context.   Thanks.  


Marsha