>>24534988
Dumb pseud frogposter. This is confused drivel that, when expressed more clearly, is obviously false.
Language organizes thought, so a greater familiarity with language leads to more effective thinking (so your argument runs). That's true enough.
But philosophy is not about the aimless development of the abstract capacity for thought, it's about coming to the truth. If you just spin your wheels endlessly, what's the point? It prostitutes philosophy to make her into a mere tool to make you better at thinking—as if there were anything better for a person to do than to know and love the truth.
Equally vapid is your hacky argument that when we read, we briefly become another person. It just isn't true, anymore than we become someone else when they speak to us.
Every so often someone gayly tries to defend highbrow literature because it enhances our capacity for empathy, as if finer and finer experiences of aesthetic beauty isn't a thing, or of no value in itself.
>>24535003
You don't have to trust me, and I didn't tell you to look within yourself. I appealed to the faculty in every person that recognizes the truth—that is, to the truth, not to some narcissistic abyss within yourself—which faculty in you is clearly degraded. So fine, be a menial laborer or chase money or sex. See how far it gets you and how satisfying it is.
