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| Blog Name: | Pop Philosophy |
| Url: | http://www.PopPhilosophy.ca |
| Language: | English |
| Topics: | Pop Philosophy, Social Commentary, Dating & Mating |
| Description: | Thinking seriously about not-so-serious things Socrates may have invented philosophy when he famously declared that "the unexamined life is not worth living." I'm not a philosopher, nor do I really aspire to be one - at least not in the classic sense of the term. The ancient Philosophers addressed such weighty matters as the existence of God, the meaning of Truth and the nature of Ethics. People still debate those fundamental issues today, and they should. On some level, however, those questions have been 'asked and answered' many times over, as the legal expression goes. Ludwig Wittengenstein - who was a real Philosopher - perhaps described his profession best when he remarked that "Philosophy is not a theory but an activity". Pop culture commentator Chuck Klosterman, who is not a real philosopher, could have been describing what I see as the purview of this place when he wrote in his inimicably irreverent way about "philosophy for shallow people." Pop Philosophy, for me, lies somewhere in between these two propositions. The salons of Classical Philosophy tackled the profound and the past. Pop Philosophy will be a forum to discuss the prosaic and the present. I want to turn the pop philosopher's lens less on the issues that matter, and more on the subjects than matter most - for good or for ill - in many people's minds. Socrates' dictum still holds true, but isn't there a virtue in examining some of the more mundane aspects of life as well as its great, central questions? I believe there is. Contemporary society contains innumerable topics which beg for considered discussion, from the changing nature of relationships in a post-modern age to the impact of technology on the minds and manners of teenagers today. These matters deserve to be dissected and debated, if only because they preoccupy people today more than the great imponderable ones do. I'm fascinated by issues arising from media, politics, modernity, men and women, psychology, sociology and society, to name but a few. I hope to use this space to modestly propose my commentaries and middlebrow musings on those topics - the prosaic preoccupations of this pop philosopher. Philosophy, in this sense, is certainly more an avocation than a vocation for me. I like to examine life, propose theories, engage and joust in vigorous, thought-provoking conversation. Sometimes I turn my curiosity on serious issues. More often, I think perhaps a little too deeply on slightly more frivolous questions. Perhaps there are some of you out there a bit like me. I suspect there are. This, then, is a place for 'philosophy' for the rest of us. Join me in thinking seriously about not-so-serious things ... |
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