Philosophy as a virtue and Way of Life: An Intellectual and Moral Battle against Modern World Crises

Rajan[1]

Abstract:

Ludwing Wittgenstein, despite having a great inclination towards linguistic philosophy kept a great deal of empathy towards the importance of ancient thought and philosophers who consider it as a virtue and way of life. As he famously put it; ‘‘[W]hat is the use of studying philosophy if all that it does for you is to enable you to talk with some plausibility about some abstruse questions of logic, etc., & if it does not improve your thinking about the important questions of everyday life.’’[i]In other words, we must always show our deep sense of gratitude to ancient Greek philosophers and Indian saints and seers who gave us the big questions and philosophy in the form of a way of life to battle against any crisis. But the question is how far we preserved that legacy and moral standard? It is here we moderns have to show moral courage to respond to the ancient thinkers who have been asking the question symbolically and silently about what we have done with philosophy and how we used it to the development of world orders, facing any crisis (environmental, moral, personal and so on) and individual character and so on. The present paper is also an attempt to look back at the nature and legacy of philosophy which ancient philosophers and seers (Dārśanika) proposed for us to live a good life and maintain the holistic world order.

Keyword: Philosophy, Life, Crises, Intellectual, Moral


[1] Rajan, Research Scholar, Dept. of Philosophy and Religion, B.H.U –Varanasi |

Jattrajan12@gmail.com


[i] Haldane, J. (2011). Practical Philosophy: Ethics, Society and Culture.  Andrews UK Limited-v

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