Sublime

Their philosophies remain of interest, not because they are right or wrong, but because they concern life, and because they take on the two biggest human questions: what are we? and what should we do?

I think philosophy becomes more interesting when it is cast into the form of a life.

discern and to describe experiential qualities

To practise it, he wrote, ‘a new way of looking at things is necessary’

anyone with intellectual ambition in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries was likely to keep a commonplace book.

‘put a radiant obstacle in the path of the obvious’.

Discourse on Method.

stripping away distractions, habits, clichés of thought, presumptions and received ideas, in order to return our attention to what he called the ‘things themselves’.