I suppose it depends on how one reads it! It’s an interesting question. I happen to be among those who feel philosophy to be (sometimes) poetry-inspiring. I think that the writing style of the philosopher one reads may also play a role. For example, Nietzsche’s writing style feels much more complementary to poetry than, say, Hegel’s.
Perhaps philosophy is to me like thinking about the mechanics of riding a bicycle rather than actually riding a bicycle. There is artificiality in philosophy, especially transitional and modern philosophy.
Come to think, I did not have this problem with postmodernism, only when I started to engage with pre-postmodern works, which I had started doing in the last decade.
Philosophy stimulates thought and imagination… it stirs up lots of ideas for me, it’s really interesting that you get a negative effect though, such simplistic differences in people make existence a most fascinating event…
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I think philosophy in itself is an art. But it kills poetry.
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I suppose it depends on how one reads it! It’s an interesting question. I happen to be among those who feel philosophy to be (sometimes) poetry-inspiring. I think that the writing style of the philosopher one reads may also play a role. For example, Nietzsche’s writing style feels much more complementary to poetry than, say, Hegel’s.
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No, it gives me ideas. But then I don’t get into the boring detail.
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Thanks for sharing your thoughts, I’ll be following your poetic works…
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It’s not a bad thing, indeed.
Perhaps, it’s because I see philosophy as meta.
Perhaps philosophy is to me like thinking about the mechanics of riding a bicycle rather than actually riding a bicycle. There is artificiality in philosophy, especially transitional and modern philosophy.
Come to think, I did not have this problem with postmodernism, only when I started to engage with pre-postmodern works, which I had started doing in the last decade.
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Philosophy stimulates thought and imagination… it stirs up lots of ideas for me, it’s really interesting that you get a negative effect though, such simplistic differences in people make existence a most fascinating event…
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Interesting!
I find every time I do philosophy my artistic creativity suffers. And the opposite happens when I do creative stuff my philosophy suffers.
They are like milk and water to me.
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I think philosophy fuels it…
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