Cassie
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Thinkin’ about virtue (dialogue, education, epistemology, ethics, tech, & argumentation). PhD in Philosophy. Civil Discourse Postdoctoral Fellow.
Thinkin’ about virtue (dialogue, education, epistemology, ethics, tech, & argumentation). PhD in Philosophy. Civil Discourse Postdoctoral Fellow.
!["With regard to (2): *A reading and interpretation of a specific treatise.* We want to learn the thinking proper to thinkers by thinking-*along-with* \[_mitdenken_] a particular thinker, and by thoughtfully following him \[_nachdenken_] on his path; that is, not by studying a 'logic' in the traditional way, and not by constructing an empty 'theory' from an equally empty thinking with empty forms, thereby taking up a position that from the beginning is external to the enactment of genuine thought.
"With our aim, on the contrary, to think-along-with a thinking that has already been carried out, it is also already decided that we will not blindly repeat and reconstruct the philosophical thinking in the treatise under discussion. We are rather to take it immediately and continually as an occasion for what characterizes philosophical thinking, that is, as an occasion for *questioning*. The inner condition, however, for a *questioning* dialogue with an essential thinker is veneration, which must be maintained even when a confrontation \[_Auseinandersetzung_] with that thinker is required, and even when it becomes necessary to overcome his fundamental position. In truth, there is no other form of a genuine encounter with the thinking \[6] of a thinker than that of a struggle which puts this very thinking in question." (4--5)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:aaxaex5srhtqf7c6rndwjvoo/bafkreidopwxxrqnkwdkgimnownry2p5yhdqwpzvl64fdutpyndj7hxjhdu)
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