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View submission: what makes someone a philosopher?
But I will say that I’m not sure that it’s proper to credit Dostoyevsky with whatever insight someone has gained from his work. I’m also unaware of Dostoyevsky having used the methodologies of philosophy (as opposed to those of literature) in any of his works.
So, going by this, would Nietzsche be considered a philosopher? What about Spinoza?
Comment by loserforhirex at 27/01/2025 at 14:38 UTC
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Spinoza’s Ethics is basically one long logic proof. You can’t get less literary and more philosophical.
My thoughts about Nietzsche…On the Genealogy of Morals seems like a work of philosophy. Anything further will get a bunch of people mad at me.
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Comment by Equal-Muffin-7133 at 27/01/2025 at 12:54 UTC
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You have to understand that Spinoza was writing in a very different time. Similar questions and concerns, but there has really been an explosion in academic philosophical discussion from the second half of the 18th century onwards. The questions people are concerned with are today very specific, very niche, and require a certain amount of expertise/background to really make a novel contribution to.
Nietzsche was a university professor, in fact I think he was the head of the philology department at Basel (and you can see this permeate throughout his works).