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1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 1. Philosophy

4424	A warlike philosopher challenges problems to single combat [Nietzsche]
	Full Idea: A warlike philosopher challenges problems to single combat.
	From: Friedrich Nietzsche (Ecce Homo [1889], Wise §7)
	A reaction: And what do pacifist philosophers do? It is a moot point whether philosophy is even possible without a streak of aggression. Otherwise you circle the problem, but don't confront it.

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 7. Despair over Philosophy

22087	Philosophy fails to articulate the continual becoming of existence [Kierkegaard, by Carlisle]
	Full Idea: Kierkegaard criticise philosophy for its inability to grasp and to articulate the movement, the continual becoming, that characterises existence.
	From: report of Søren Kierkegaard (Either/Or: a fragment of life [1843]) by Clare Carlisle - Kierkegaard: a guide for the perplexed 2
	A reaction: Heraclitus had a go, and Hegel's historicism focuses on dynamic thought, but this idea concerns the immediacy of individual life.