{"id":11125,"date":"2010-11-16T05:08:33","date_gmt":"2010-11-16T05:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/11\/16\/the-fly-and-the-fly-bottle\/"},"modified":"2010-11-16T05:08:33","modified_gmt":"2010-11-16T05:08:33","slug":"the-fly-and-the-fly-bottle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/11\/16\/the-fly-and-the-fly-bottle\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fly and the Fly Bottle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Why does the bug need to be <em>shown<\/em> the way out?&#0160; Pop the cork and he&#39;s gone.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Why did Wittgenstein feel the need to philosophize his way out of philosophy?&#0160; He should have known that metaphilosophy and anti-philosophy are just more philosophy with all that that entails: inconclusiveness, endlessness . . . .&#0160; He should have just walked away from it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">If the room is too smoky, there is no necessity that you remain in it.&#0160; You are free to go, the door is unlocked.&#0160; This figure&#39;s from Epictetus and he had the quitting of life in view.&#0160; But the same holds for the quitting of philosophy.&#0160; Just do it, if that&#39;s what you want.&#0160; It can be done.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">What cannot be done, however, is to justify one&#39;s exit.&#0160; (That would be like copulating your way to chastity.)&#0160; For any justification proffered, perforce &amp; willy-nilly, will be just more philosophy.&#0160; You cannot have it both ways.&#0160; You either walk away or stay.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">(Exercise for the reader: Cite chapter and verse of the Epictetus and Wittgenstein passages to which I allude above.)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why does the bug need to be shown the way out?&#0160; Pop the cork and he&#39;s gone. Why did Wittgenstein feel the need to philosophize his way out of philosophy?&#0160; He should have known that metaphilosophy and anti-philosophy are just more philosophy with all that that entails: inconclusiveness, endlessness . . . .&#0160; He should &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/11\/16\/the-fly-and-the-fly-bottle\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Fly and the Fly Bottle&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[634,20,275],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anti-philosophy","category-metaphilosophy","category-wittgenstein"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}