This guy is a "Philosopher"
The tip off is #3. The heart. To really find out why, takes another peak at Walden and leans on Thoreau. Before I mention how I wanted to mention a little different reflection, probably,which also comes from the heart. Personality. Of course I might add here that this picture is not me. I might have reached in and drew this guy however.
It's hard not to think about personality when you give Mike a call every few hours. He is a personality. He proves my point above that personality also reflects from the heart because he has a lot of heart too. Even so just being in the room with him makes you feel his personality.
The bald guy on the left is not me?
On the other hand he did put a question mark after the word and even a day later from my last blog I find just thinking about this blog, and so on, is worth maybe another question mark?
"There are nowdays professors of philosophy
but not philosophers"
This is according to Thoreau and can be found in his book Walden. He added something that reminded me of another book and the "guy's with the heart". He said:
To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust. It is to solve some of the problems of life, not only theoretically, but practically.
Magnanimity is a nice word but probably means "heart"
Dallin Oaks said that people act based on motive but that the highest motive is "charity". Unconcerned with self and heedless of personal advantage. Perhaps "anxiously engaged in a good cause". It may be a stretch but I think that professors of philosophy are such out of motive and philosophers do so out of the pure love of wisdom.
It would take a lot of Heart to love wisdom for wisdom's sake.
1 comment:
I've been thinking a lot about personality lately also - probably for the same reasons. interesting post!
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