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 ====== Hermotimus and the Futility of Philosophy ======
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 The [[http://lucianofsamosata.info/Hermotimus.html|Hermotimus]] likes to evoke the concept of infinitude to explain why Philosophy as a subject and discipline is ultimately futile. If one man is not wise, and his teacher is not wise, and his teacher was not wise, and so on - who then is wise from the teachings of Philosophy? Infinitude is a great way to show futility as almost everything over the course of time gets degraded including in this case Philosophy.
-Philosophy by its very nature is indeterminate - look at how Socrates refused to acknowledge that he knew anything. Lucian's contention is that when philosophers turned into dogmatists, that is when the discipline turned sour. There are a few examples of people who eschewed this characterization. One is Lucian's own example the [[http://lucianofsamosata.info/Demonax.html|Life of Demonax]]. However, Lucian's view is that Stoics, Epicureans, Platonists, etc. have all lost the original impetus of Philosophy, wonder and ignorance (e.g. indeterminate things).
+Philosophy by its very nature is indeterminate - look at how Socrates refused to acknowledge that he knew anything. Lucian's contention is that when philosophers turned into dogmatists, that is when the discipline turned sour. There are a few examples of people who eschewed this characterization. One is Lucian's own example the [[http://lucianofsamosata.info/Demonax.html|Life of Demonax]]. However, Lucian's view is that [[wp>Stoics]], [[wp>Epicureans]], [[wp>Platonists]], etc. have all lost the original impetus of Philosophy, wonder and ignorance (e.g. indeterminate things).
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