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If you've got on the one hand death, dogmatism, domination, and on the other you've got desire in the face of death, dialogue in the face of dogmatism, democracy in the face of domination, then philosophy itself becomes

If you've got on the one hand death, dogmatism, domination, and on the other you've got desire in the face of death, dialogue in the face of dogmatism, democracy in the face of domination, then philosophy itself becomes a critical disposition of wrestling with desire in the face of death, wrestling with dialogue in the face of dogmatism, and wrestling with democracy, trying to keep alive a very fragile democratic experiment.

Cornel West
Philosophy, Wrestling, Hands
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Philosophy is in fact a quest for wisdom based in sophia; that quest for wisdom has everything to do with a love of wisdom.

Cornel West
Philosophy, Quests, Facts
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I would want to conceive of philosophy as grounded in the very long humanist tradition that is the best of the West, which is open to the East and North and South.

Cornel West
Philosophy, Long, West
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I believe philosophy must go to school with the poets; it's not either/or, it's not over or against.

Cornel West
Philosophy, Believe, School
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Philosophy is fundamentally about how you come to terms with living your life and trying to do it in a wise manner, and, for me, that means decently and compassionately and courageously and so forth.

Cornel West
Wise, Philosophy, Mean
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I think philosophy is all about lived experience, which is to say life in the streets, life in a variety of different contexts.

Cornel West
Philosophy, Thinking, Different
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I'm actually with the classics in general in terms of understanding truth in an existential mode. Therefore, philosophy becomes more a way of life as opposed to simply a mode of discourse.

Cornel West
Philosophy, Understanding, Way
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