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tldr (tim reilly)
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I’ve read nearly all of the most renowned philosophers (the ones whose thoughts we were able to preserve). Many of them in original language. Shakespeare is the greatest. He is so because he is the most profound investigator of forms who was also strong enough to not deny one ounce of life: Comedy and Tragedy.
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artlu
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Really want to hear more, b/c I have an opposing strong opinion, weakly held. me: Shakespeare will be forgotten after ~600 yrs Q: how would you describe Shakespeare's philosophy, in the way you might for Plato, Aristotle, Hegel, or Kant? I consider his body of work as "high minstrel-ish" warpcast.com/artlu/0xa6901f
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tldr (tim reilly)
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Ha! I don’t experience Shakespeare as having a dogma that can be systematized (this is true of my other favorite philosophers) Like Plato, Shakespeare explores ideas by showing the way the same nominal word is used differently by different minds. Each impression creates one facet of a whole gem, which is the thing
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artlu
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would it be too reductionist to blurb-ify your view as: Shakespeare is a humanist philosopher who exemplifies empathy of different perspectives, and values the whole sum of human experience. This would make him more compatible with Theravada Buddhism than the individualistic narrative form of Western literature 1/2
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