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Wednesday, December 15, 2004
 
What is Philosophy?

Paragraphs 44 and 45
Above all, however the reference to the essential disposition of correspondence is not a modern invention. The Greek thinkers, Plato and Aristotle, already drew attention to the fact that philosophy and philosophizing belong in the dimension of man which we call tuning(in the sense of tuning and attunement).

Plato says (Theaetetus): μάλα γὰρ φιλοσόφου τοῦτο τὸ πάθος, τὸ θαθμάζειν. οὐ γὰρ ἄλλὴ φιλοσοφίας ἢ αύτη. "Very much is this especially the πάθος of a philospher, namely, to be astonished; for there is no other determining point of departure for philosophy than this."
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