Sublime

All definite knowledge—so I should contend—belongs to science; all dogma as to what surpasses definite knowledge belongs to theology. But between theology and science there is a No Man’s Land, exposed to attack from both sides; this No Man’s Land is philosophy.

Diz Cícero que filosofar não é outra coisa senão preparar-se para a morte.

“To philosophize is to learn how to die.”

A philosophy is the aggregate of your attitudes toward fundamental matters and is derived from a process of consciously thinking about critical issues and developing rational reasons for holding one particular belief or position rather than another.

La sagesse est pour lui « le bien de l’esprit humain à sa perfection 4 », quand la philosophie est « le goût et la recherche de la sagesse 5 ». La sagesse constitue donc le but à atteindre pour la philosophie, et son matériau, c’est l’âme. Outre la sagesse, la philosophie est indissociable de la vertu 6, nous explique-t-il encore. La vertu est une

Philosophy, as I shall understand the word, is something intermediate between theology and science. Like theology, it consists of speculations on matters as to which definite knowledge has, so far, been unascertainable; but like science, it appeals to human reason rather than to authority, whether that of tradition or that of revelation.

I read philosophy from the Greeks to the present, and I found a lot of interesting ideas and pertinent questions. But it was clear that ultimately they were in the same boat with me: They did not know how things worked, and they did not seem all that happy with what they supposedly did know. I phrase it in that way because it was obvious to me that