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To: Rarebird who wrote (20)	12/1/2004 9:20:23 AM
From: Rarebird	Respond to of 26251

One of the questions which is to give our discussion fruitful unrest and movement and to indicate the direction it is to take, the question, What is philosophy? Aristotle has already answered. Therefore our discussion is no longer necessary. It is at an end before it has begun. The immediate reply to this will be that Aristotles statement as to what philosophy is can by no means be the only answer to our question. To state it favorably, it is one answer among many others. With the help of the Aristotelian characterization of philosophy one can, to be sure, conceive and interpret both the thinking before Aristotle and Plato, as well as the philosophy after the time of Aristotle. However, it will be pointed out with ease that philosophy itself and the way in which it conceives its own nature have changed frequently in the subsequent two thousand years. Who would deny this? At the same time we ought not, however, overlook the fact that philosophy from Aristotle to Nietzsche, precisely because of these changes throughout their course, has remained the same. For the transformations are the warranty for the kinship in the same. By saying this, I by no means maintain that the Aristotelian definition of philosophy is absolutely valid. In regard to all matters, I wholeheartedly accept the Delphic Oracle, "Know Thyself".