{"id":2767,"date":"2021-01-01T06:07:26","date_gmt":"2021-01-01T06:07:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2021\/01\/01\/on-profitable-study-of-philosophy\/"},"modified":"2021-01-01T06:07:26","modified_gmt":"2021-01-01T06:07:26","slug":"on-profitable-study-of-philosophy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2021\/01\/01\/on-profitable-study-of-philosophy\/","title":{"rendered":"On Profitable Study of Philosophy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"post\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; color: #333333; font-family: &#39;trebuchet ms&#39;; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13pt;\">One needs to&#0160;<em>work through<\/em>&#0160;a text slowly, pondering, comparing, re-reading, reconstructing and evaluating the arguments, raising objections, imagining possible replies and all of this while animated by a burning need to get to the bottom of some pressing existential question.&#0160; You must bring to your reading questions if you expect study to be profitable.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"post\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; color: #333333; font-family: &#39;trebuchet ms&#39;; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13pt;\">If one fails to enter into the dialectic of the problems and issues one will come away with little more than a vague literary impression. But real study is hard work demanding aptitude, time, peace, and&#0160;<em>quiet<\/em>, a commodity in short supply in these hyperkinetic and cacaphonous times.&#0160; Back in the day,&#0160; <span id=\"fck_dom_range_temp_1235336422156_200\"><\/span>Arthur Schopenhauer was much exercised by &quot;the infernal cracking of whips&quot; as he he complained in his classic &quot;On Noise.&quot;&#0160; What would he say today?&#0160; Could he survive in the contemporary crapstorm of&#0160;&#0160; cacaphony?<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"post\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; color: #333333; font-family: &#39;trebuchet ms&#39;; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13pt;\">So turn off that cell phone before I smash it to pieces!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One needs to&#0160;work through&#0160;a text slowly, pondering, comparing, re-reading, reconstructing and evaluating the arguments, raising objections, imagining possible replies and all of this while animated by a burning need to get to the bottom of some pressing existential question.&#0160; You must bring to your reading questions if you expect study to be profitable. 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