The way forward does not lie in amateur and comically timeless linguistic sociology which takes 'forms of life … - Ernest Gellner

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If history were a photograph of the past it would be flat and uninspiring. Happily, it is a painting; and, like all works of art, it fails of the highest truth unless imagination and ideas are mixed with the paints.

Ernest Gellner

The way forward does not lie in amateur and comically timeless linguistic sociology which takes 'forms of life ' for granted (and this is what philosophy has been recently), but in the systematic study of forms of life which does not take them for granted at all. It hardly matters whether such an inquiry is called philosophy or sociology.

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A cleric who loses his faith abandons his calling; a philosopher who loses his redefines his subject.

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