philosophodoxia
Philosophodoxia:
Believing that doing philosophy is worth doing for its own sake, despite the fact that the one philosophizing and those who follow, will all die. Paradoxically, in order to assert this is to make a philosophical claim.
To have philosophodoxia is to love philosophy and philosophizing even though it is ultimately fruitless. It is a chasing after the wind. It is to engage in mental masturbation. It’s to be in love with one’s own intellectual life and derive pleasure from it even though it’s ultimately
Believing that doing philosophy is worth doing for its own sake, despite the fact that the one philosophizing and those who follow, will all die. Paradoxically, in order to assert this is to make a philosophical claim.
To have philosophodoxia is to love philosophy and philosophizing even though it is ultimately fruitless. It is a chasing after the wind. It is to engage in mental masturbation. It’s to be in love with one’s own intellectual life and derive pleasure from it even though it’s ultimately
Philosophers, especially atheist philosophers, have a position of philosophodoxia for granted without considering that they are wasting their time. This mentality is often seen when they mock nihilists/nihilism as being pseudo-philosophical and resorting to calling those who hold that position as “adolescent”, “juvenile”, “pseudo-intellectual”, etc...
philosophodoxia by MindofGod March 12, 2020
