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Is quietism the endgame philosophy?
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Is quietism the endgame philosophy?
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>>8165479
no
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>>8165479
yes
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>>8165479
Maybe
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>>8165479
I don't know
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heresy
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nope
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>>8165479
Can you repeat the question?
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...
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nope nope nope
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what is quietism anyway?
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Shhh
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YOU'RE
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>>8166010
respond pls
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>>8166010
I would really prefer if you would be quiet.
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>>8165479
Please tell me this is
>whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent
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Au contraire, quietism is the only way philosophy can go on forever.
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;)
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>>8167240
that could also be said to be its end game. the point is not about the activity of philosophizing but about the ongoing quest. if you found something that allows you to stop searching, youre done.
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>>8167240
how so?
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>be a quietist missionary
>get in a debate with a new-age spiritualist
>he says that he reads Alan Watts and he believes in Zen Buddhism
>tfw I can't say anything
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How should I know? I've never been able to hear the proponents.
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>>8165479
YES
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>>8167240
No, quietism is the temporary cure to the permanent disease that is philosophy
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quietism_(philosophy)

http://www.hull.ac.uk/php/465848/HOMEPAGE/PDFs/Quietism.pdf

https://dspace.stir.ac.uk/bitstream/1893/1055/1/ThesisInPDF.pdf
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>>8168037
So, according to that wikipedia article, quietism is a way to disregard philosophy by saying that the issues it raises are non-issues?
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>>8166737
underrated
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>>8168797
Could you stop?
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>>8169413
No
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>>8167911
In the same way medicine is not looking for the end of medicine.
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>>8172127
thank
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