Annandreas Are texts wrongly written?

1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-91-7785-278-0
Verlag: BoD - Books on Demand
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 164 Seiten

This may be the first book in the world written and published using bigger spaces in the text. You will get the possibility to evaluate a new scientific idea. You will get the opportunity to answer if texts are wrongly written. That is the main idea of this book. Hence the title. At the same time we can study the will to truth. If scientists can wait to publish results you will be able to know before they do. I urge them to wait to publish their results a year after the release of this book to let everyone first build their own opinion. Then they can get ahead. I think that could strenghten the social capital. What do you think they should do? How should we manage our will to truth? Please give voice to your opinion after reading this book.

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Annandreas

Leseproben

1.1 Philosophy

It is sad that philosophy is not known well by all men and women. It is even more sad that some see it as too difficult or too deep, and that others reject it saying that it is mere gibberish. The reputation of philosophy could be better. How do you feel when I mention philosophy? Are you losing interest or do you feel excited? Do you feel that this is not any of your concern or do you think: -oh wow, this is great, now I will get the opportunity to get to know this subject a little better. When I write about philosophy I feel as if I have to try to motivate someone who is already losing interest. It feels like philosophy is creating a distance between you and me. Is that the case? And if that is the case – why is it like that? I hope that you keep on reading and by doing so I hope to change some of your feelings regarding philosophy.

A good advise: -if you experience some difficulties when reading some sections just keep on reading. It can change further on as we get a little deeper into the inquiry. Bide your time!

If your immediate reaction is that you are not interested in philosophy what is the corresponding question to your reaction? Do you know that? It is like the question disappears when we get some kind of reaction. The reaction/answer seems to be all that matters and we tend to attach ourselves strongly to them. We act as if we already know and use the right answers. In my opinion you are also being philosophical when you use reflection and try to find questions for answers. It is a kind of delaying activity where one asks oneself: -what was the question or what could the question be? I understand this as the activity where you try to your immediate answers. But, as I mentioned, the general course of actions is to take one’s reactions as an account of whom you are and what you are interested in; we seldom live as bequestioning people – but we could.

I suggest that the question to your reaction is (whatever the reaction was): what is philosophy? If you already know your answer – was it a sensible one? A rational one? (Philosophy is often understood as rational activity). No matter what you think of philosophy I would like to challenge your position. You could benefit from it, especially during this reading, but also in the future.

I certainly understand if you are disinterested in philosophy and if you have reservations to it. Sadly the use and exposition of it often tends to contribute to such notions. During history philosophy has not been very easy to read. Even nowadays it is not very easy to read. Recent philosophers sometimes write clear and correct but it becomes almost academically dull. Others write unclear and even obscure. But those who are initiated does not see it this way. They are interested in what the writer has to say, and having read hundreds of books before they are well prepared for the next one. They may even have learnt to appreciate the style of the books. The clear, correct and a little dull expression may show the argument in a better way and that is what they could be interested in. In those cases where the books are not so clear they can still be appreciated as artistic, almost poetic, which even beautifies the expressions – it gives them life. The novice may not see any of this. The novices and those who are initiated read texts with different readliness’. One of the objectives with my books is to help you, the reader, to reach a different readliness. By getting through this book you will be differently prepared for future readings no matter what you read.

You may wonder why I try to interest you. I may not have exactly you in mind – I am not trying to convince or interest »the totally disinterested«. Mostly I wish to reach someone in their early teens that with some years of further reading will be really happy that they found their interest through my books. More clearly: -I am trying to reach someone like myself in my early teens. It took me far too long to become really interested and when I got there I did not have the time to assent the interest. You definitely have the time when you are a teenager. That is why I try to motivate you to read philosophy. This being mentioned, I also try to reach others who will benefit from reading some philosophy – like I did when I actually was too old for it.

What is philosophy? Some common answers are that it is our collection of wisdom, a thinking about thinking, an area where you try to answer the big questions (that cannot be handled within science) or that it is a formal science underpinning all the other sciences. Another answer is that philosophy is what philosophers do. Those are all simple and straightforward answers, but to me they do not seem to tell what it is all about. I think it is better to see philosophy as the activity where you are interested in how we pose questions and seek answers, with another formulation: how we find our questions and give our answers. This includes both the questions and answers we take interest in and those we do not show any interest at all.

We are often blind to what we are not interested in (naturally). Our lives get certain directions that make us somewhat blind. When we then suddenly succeed in posing certain questions we also notice how we during history have been blind to them. Within philosophy you can also try to understand such things where we still have not succeeded in posing the right questions – all that we have not succeeded in bequestion and answer. Some philosophers get most of their recognition for being able to pose a good question. Their answers may have flaws, but their ability to pose the right question are also valued; then it is easier for the following philosophers to give better answers. Posing questions is philosophy – it is what you have to do to be wiser.

To see philosophy as the art of posing or asking questions has a long history. The ancient Greeks and Chinese started to ask special questions around 2600 years ago. Two hundred years later Socrates started posing questions differently. He asked questions about how we should live. Through his questions he was accused of misleading the young and he was sentenced to death for it. During history it has sometimes been dangerous being a philosopher. Socrates will forever inspire mankind to be able to see philosophy in a special way – which also I find inspiring and useful. You could see philosophy as the art of getting on with your life in a wiser way – as the art of living wisely. It could be a more rewarding view than seeing philosophy as difficult, deep or as mere gibberish.

It is of special importance how you see things when you are about to take them on. How you see philosophy affect how you will take it on, and in the next step it affects how you will be able to use it in other activities. I start by seeing philosophy as the art of asking questions and giving answers – and that leads me to what I have to do: I have to ask questions and give answers. If we should become wiser I problably should show you how I do it. It must be an objective for me to show you how I did. So I will have to pose a couple of questions and look at how you can answer them. I will also try to give some answers and bequestion them. That is why I started this book with a question.

My books are answers. But which were the questions for them? I could try to describe my answers as rational and thought-through, then I could assert them as the way I would want people to ask and answer questions due to how texts should be written. But, , the answers also have something to do with my life. I give the books as my answers because I am able to present them as I do – because of the way I have lived. If I would have lived differently I probably would have been forced to give different answers. At the same time I wrote the books, the books became my way of getting on with my life. They became my way of life. They became my answers on the type of questions that Socrates inspired us to pose. How do you see your life and how does it affect how you go about it? Those are the kind of philosophical questions that one always could bear in mind. That view could also be more rewarding than seeing philosophy as difficult, deep or as mere gibberish.

One thing that inspired me to read philosophy is that many philosophers seem to be able to think in a broader sense and to write with a broader perspective. They seem knowledgeable without being it for the sake of seeming knowledgeable. Even if you read a lot it is still easy to get impressed. When I was younger I often got quite annoyed – the writers thought of answers I could not. I often wondered why they were able to and not me? This is getting better though. I may never be as good as them but now I got some of their skills and I find it useful as well as joyful. This is nothing you can brag about (philosophy and a better thinking are not especially appreciated). Something as futile as a somewhat beautified body usually gives a higher status than an improved thinking (this could have something to do with that we do not see it – we often seem to be mesmerized by the things we see and we often tend to pose questions and give answers using that as our starting point).

The public’s conceptions of philosophy, and the reputation philosophy thereby get, is probably affected by the questions it often poses. When one starts asking questions and give answers one often ends up with tricky questions and difficult answers. I certainly understand that novices could find the question: -if a tree falls in the forest… (if you have come across that question) rather deep or difficult, even...