Mar 09, 2005 23:52
Thus, in supposition on the suppression of abstract and substantive thought; philosophy can be studied, or not studied; but philosophers themselves should not be studied as philosophy but as history; the conception of generalizing any form of philosophy, including this essay itself, is a contradiction of the very nature of the study of philosophy; contemplation of philosophy itself is enough, philosophers themselves should not exist in a culturally conceptual civilization, they are an incongruity of their very science; and I use the term science lightly.