{"id":12264,"date":"2009-11-03T11:22:33","date_gmt":"2009-11-03T11:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/11\/03\/philosophy-is-dialectical-and-aporetic\/"},"modified":"2009-11-03T11:22:33","modified_gmt":"2009-11-03T11:22:33","slug":"philosophy-is-dialectical-and-aporetic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/11\/03\/philosophy-is-dialectical-and-aporetic\/","title":{"rendered":"Philosophy is Dialectical and Aporetic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\" class=\"firstinpost\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/spec-coll\/Bai\/heald.htm\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Gustav Bergmann<\/font><\/a><font face=\"Georgia\">, <em>Meaning and Existence<\/em> (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1959, p. vii):<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Philosophy is dialectical. This means, among other things, that critical examination of the positions he rejects is an important part of a philosopher&#39;s argument for the position he adopts.<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">I would add that philosophy is also aporetic. The positions a philosopher affirms are responses to problems and cannot be understood otherwise. The problems are logically primary; solutions in the form of theories and theses are logically secondary. As Plato puts it at <em>Theaetetus<\/em> 155, &quot;wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.&quot;<\/font>&#0160;&#0160; <font face=\"Georgia\">This passage is expressive of the aporetic sense.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gustav Bergmann, Meaning and Existence (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1959, p. vii): Philosophy is dialectical. This means, among other things, that critical examination of the positions he rejects is an important part of a philosopher&#39;s argument for the position he adopts. I would add that philosophy is also aporetic. The positions a philosopher affirms &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/11\/03\/philosophy-is-dialectical-and-aporetic\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Philosophy is Dialectical and Aporetic&#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":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-metaphilosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12264","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=12264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}