Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Great Philosophers

Oh! Those great philosophers---starting with Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, and including Frege, Sartre, Kant, Hume, whoever.  I despise them.  What did they know?  Not one of them every had to empty their elderly father's urine bottle.  Not one of them lived to see their elderly father tumble to the ground, or their mother slide down, lose her balance, end up on the floor, unable to get up again without help. What did they know of life?  You do not know what a horrible, terrible, ugly thing life is until you have experienced these things.  The indignity of it.  The helplessness.

Maybe there is one exception--Simone de Beauvoir--if it is true that she took care of Sartre when he was old and sick....

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