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Does any philosopher mostly come up with their own unique ideas in a black box, uninfluenced by and not based upon ideas that preceded them in culture and liter
by davnicwil 3y ago
Does any philosopher mostly come up with their own unique ideas in a black box, uninfluenced by and not based upon ideas that preceded them in culture and literature?
This is an actual question, I don't know the answer, but it does seem extremely unlikely to me that this would be the case.
- Kye 3y agoI don't think getting ideas from elsewhere was the issue.
- SkyMarshal 3y ago> Does any philosopher mostly come up with their own unique ideas in a black box, No of course not. Philosophy is a progression of original insights built upon the prior progression of original insights. But the key word here is "original", aka a leap of intuition that reveals something about existence not previously recognized. Not regurgitated, un-credited, pop-philosophy.
- davnicwil 3y agoyeah, fair enough. On first reading of your comment I missed that the 'cheating' was specifically describing the repetition of prior ideas without credit, as opposed to generally.
- SkyMarshal 3y agoOh right, yeah it's basically a form of plagiarism for internet cred instead of a grade in school.