Wednesday, January 9, 2008
Quote from Yves R. Simon
"There are great men of science who lack manners, and there are great artists who are rather notorious for their boorishness, which may be cultivated to some extent but is not entirely artificial. In fact, such traits seem to belong to personalities excellently developed with regard to some habitus, or virtue, be that mathematics or courage, the art of painting or justice. We may go even further and ask: Could a good philosopher be a boor? I am not sure, but I doubt that a philosopher limited to his habitus would be a very creative philosopher. What is certain, though, is that neither his philosophical habitus nor all the virtues that he might possess would of themselves suffice to make him a cultured person. To be that he would have to be able to make also some contribution through activities of free expansion."
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when we talk about human being, we can't but always in relation to culture where he is being inserted. in fact, philosophy of man tells us that man or the human being is structured of possibilities, and every individual not just only to a particular individual or group of individual but every individual a long as a human being who has the capacity to give comments for example, to reason. so, yves simon doubted about a creative philosopher to be boor since he is talking about creative philosopher, or i would say a true philosopher. however, i would considered that to be boor is a form of possibilities, therefore to be boor is not only possible to artist or even to a musicians or coposers a what he is, but even to the philosophers. since, philosophers still structured of possibilities, still within the communty or belong to a p[articular culture. in fact, rene girard would say we can't but to be with the crowd, to the many.
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