Sorry, my bad I meant it 'wouldn't'....but hey while I'm 'alive' I love reading this kind of debates!
Sorry, my bad I meant it 'wouldn't'....but hey while I'm 'alive' I love reading this kind of debates!
You clearly dont know much of plato.
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Lavrentiy Beria is the greatest Jew who ever lived.
The great philosophers cannot be compared.
Great philosophy articulates a singular vision, crystallizing a world view, a way of relating to the world.
The question of which of these singular world views is the greatest begs the question of the standards by which these views would be put into an order of rank. Since these standards are precisely what's at stake in the development of a philosophical vision, to choose a philosophy as the greatest is merely to subordinate the rest of the philosophical world to one philosophical standard.
In other words, to read philosophy comparatively is to kill the essentially creative spirit of philosophy. It is to assume what exactly what philosophy as the most naive form of human inquiry denies: that there exist standards against which existence can be compared, judged, regulated, and organized. Philosophy is the creation and transformation of these standards, not their application. Once we have begun to judge, to arbitrate, and to condemn we've left the realm of philosophy and entered the world of opinion and common sense.