Analecta Griceana

--- by courtesy of Ian Dengler Cargan:

Wlodzimierz Pawliszyn

“On Philosophy and On Expertise in Philosophy (‘PHILOSOPHISTICS’)

—A Fantastic Narrative” in ANALECTA HUSSERLIANA: THE YEARBOOK OF PHENOMENOLOGICAL RESEARCH VOL LXXVII, Tymieniecka, Anna-Teresa (ed), 297-305. Dordrecht 2002.

W. P. writes:

"I would like to present to you the essence, or

the sense of a certain distinction. This distinction

is between philosophy and “philosophistics”.

To be most brief, the essence of this distinction

is that although philosophy could be a

kind of expertness, nevertheless, philosophy

is NOT the expertise of philosophy. It is not

the same to know philosophy (history) and

to be a REAL philosopher. That, which we

are going to talk about, belongs to such matters,

as we ARE NOT ABLE TO PROVE. As to the

form of our ALARM — a philosophical narrative — it

seems to me, is in spite of circumstancing,

the most suitable. The circumstances here

are INTENTIONS: first of all to warn against

a serious danger, which is to FORGET,

to OMIT philosophy itself

in “philosophistics” noise, and to awaken vigilance."



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