{"id":379,"date":"2024-12-20T10:51:23","date_gmt":"2024-12-20T10:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/12\/20\/on-taking-ones-time-in-philosophy\/"},"modified":"2024-12-20T10:51:23","modified_gmt":"2024-12-20T10:51:23","slug":"on-taking-ones-time-in-philosophy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/12\/20\/on-taking-ones-time-in-philosophy\/","title":{"rendered":"On Taking One’s Time in Philosophy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Both Brentano and Wittgenstein advise philosophers to take their time. <\/span>Ludwig Wittgenstein, <\/span>Culture and Value<\/strong> (University of Chicago Press, 1980), p. 80:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Der Gruss der Philosophen unter einander sollte sein: "Lass Dir Zeit!"<\/em><\/p>\n

This is how philosophers should greet one another: "Take your time!"<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

A similar thought is to be found in Franz Brentano, though I have forgotten where he says this:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Wer eilt, bewegt sich nicht auf dem Boden der Wissenschaft.<\/em><\/p>\n

One who hurries is not proceeding on a scientific basis.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

But how much time does one have? One does not know.  It is later than one thinks. So get on with it!<\/span><\/p>\n

"Take your time!" does not apply to the jotting of notes or to blogosophy. It applies to what one writes 'for the ages.' <\/span><\/p>\n

One's best writing ought to be written 'for the ages' even if one is sure that one will not be read beyond one's time or even in one's time.  The vast majority of us are mediocrities who will be lucky to end up footnotes. Don't let that bother you. Just do your level best and strive for the utmost. Do the best you can, with what you've got, for as long as you can. Then let the cards fall where they may. <\/span><\/p>\n

Habent sua fata libelli. (<\/em>Terentianus Maurus<\/a>.)<\/em> "Books have their fates."   What their fates are is unknown to their toiling authors.<\/span><\/p>\n

Who knows whom you will instruct, inspire, engage, enrage?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Both Brentano and Wittgenstein advise philosophers to take their time. Ludwig Wittgenstein, Culture and Value (University of Chicago Press, 1980), p. 80: Der Gruss der Philosophen unter einander sollte sein: "Lass Dir Zeit!" This is how philosophers should greet one another: "Take your time!" A similar thought is to be found in Franz Brentano, though I have … Continue reading “On Taking One’s Time in Philosophy”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[289,290,214,72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-life-of-the-mind","category-reading-and-writing","category-sage-advice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379","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=379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}