Sublime

How can a man be a philosopher and not maintain his vital heat by better methods than other men?

Il voulait toujours réfléchir à un point plus difficile et déconcertant : quelque chose qui n’avait pas encore été exploré. Selon son étudiant (puis traducteur) Dorion Cairns, Husserl disait que son but était toujours de travailler sur les sujets paraissant les plus douloureux et incertains – ceux qui l’emplissaient le plus d’angoisse et de doute73

Aristo had seemed to think that philosophy was for the wise man exclusively, for the individual’s self-actualization. His Stoicism worked well in the classroom, and raised interesting debates, but it would not work in the world. Diogenes saw Stoicism differently. It was a way of thinking—as well as a set of rules—for serving the common good, for se