tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6398699458159756321.post7117815271030631974..comments2024-03-07T22:31:37.969+01:00Comments on Philosophy by the Way: The pain of thinkingHbdWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05358668804898517772noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6398699458159756321.post-90331649048961211562012-01-24T02:46:31.181+01:002012-01-24T02:46:31.181+01:00Thank you for your reaction and for the link to th...Thank you for your reaction and for the link to the book of interviews with Naess. I haven't much to add, but next week I'll publish another blog about this theme (without having been able to use your references, however). Of course, pleasure and pain exist in many sort, and maybe Sophocles and Montaigne did not realize that.HbdWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05358668804898517772noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6398699458159756321.post-51090897690884628252012-01-23T05:29:44.897+01:002012-01-23T05:29:44.897+01:00I am reminded of the lovely little book of intervi...I am reminded of the lovely little book of interviews with Arne Næss, <i><a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=qJwKBrgNznYC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false" rel="nofollow">Is it painful to think?</a></i>, which I believe was titled without intentional reference to Montaigne. Also a remark of Russell's regarding Wittgenstein: that he wanted to find out, not this or that, but <i>how things are</i>; "It <i>hurts</i> him not to know." And yet of course, I can't imagine that Socrates pursued this good life of inquiry because he thought it was character-building in some sort of tough-love way. There was eros involved. Pleasure and pain. the question must be, then, what sorts of each?skholiasthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05410057905377189336noreply@blogger.com