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Single Idea 8242

[filed under theme 1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / a. Philosophy as worldly ]

Full Idea

Philosophy does not consist in knowing, and is not inspired by truth. Rather, it is categories like Interesting, Remarkable, or Important that determine success or failure.

Gist of Idea

Philosophy aims at what is interesting, remarkable or important - not at knowledge or truth

Source

G Deleuze / F Guattari (What is Philosophy? [1991], 1.3)

Book Ref

Deleuze/Guattari: 'What is Philosophy?' [Verso 1994], p.82

A Reaction

Speak for yourself. I wonder what the criteria are for 'Interesting' or 'Important'. They can't seriously count 'remarkable' as a criterion of philosophical success, can they? There can be remarkable stupidity.

The 15 ideas from G Deleuze / F Guattari

21906 Political theory should not focus on the state or economy, but on the small scale of power [Deleuze/Guattari, by May]
8217 Philosophy is a concept-creating discipline [Deleuze/Guattari]
8223 The plague of philosophy is those who criticise without creating, and defend dead concepts [Deleuze/Guattari]
8220 Philosophy is in a perpetual state of digression [Deleuze/Guattari]
8219 Logic has an infantile idea of philosophy [Deleuze/Guattari]
8221 We cannot judge the Cogito. Must we begin? Must we start from certainty? Can 'I' relate to thought? [Deleuze/Guattari]
8222 Concepts are superior because they make us more aware, and change our thinking [Deleuze/Guattari]
8218 Other people completely revise our perceptions, because they are possible worlds [Deleuze/Guattari]
8224 'Eris' is the divinity of conflict, the opposite of Philia, the god of friendship [Deleuze/Guattari]
8242 Philosophy aims at what is interesting, remarkable or important - not at knowledge or truth [Deleuze/Guattari]
8243 Atheism is the philosopher's serenity, and philosophy's achievement [Deleuze/Guattari]
8245 The logical attitude tries to turn concepts into functions, when they are really forms or forces [Deleuze/Guattari]
8247 Phenomenology needs art as logic needs science [Deleuze/Guattari]
8246 Logic hates philosophy, and wishes to supplant it [Deleuze/Guattari]
8248 Phenomenology says thought is part of the world [Deleuze/Guattari]