Hard distinctions make bad philosophy.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Making distinctions is part of learning. So is making mistakes.
Philosophy is altogether less pure now. It's been impurified by science and social science and history.
I suggest that an education and reading and facts aren't bad things on which to ponder a few notions.
I don't feel proprietorial about the problems of philosophy. History has taught us that many philosophical issues can grow up, leave home and live elsewhere.
It's clear to me that there is no good reason for many philosophy books to sound as complicated as they do.
Bader's philosophy was my philosophy. His whole attitude to life was mine.
Philosophy likes to keen common sense on the run.
What sort of philosophy one chooses depends on what sort of person one is.
Good and bad are really arbitrary words when it comes to character.
Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.