11 September 2016, India — To say that one is a philosopher and an artist should be redundant. But since there are academic philosophers (scholars or historians of Philosophy) it is more precise to clarify the fact that one is a practical philosopher, one who is engaged in praxis, pursuing the art of philosophising.
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The Death of Socrates |
The original Greek philosophers were not just scholars or learned people; they were in love with knowing, lovers of understanding. They were artists using the medium of free thinking, pure imagination. Their results always were the same: wisdom, in which the various styles and approaches of philosophising dissolved in the end.