A Philosophical Trip
by Anindita Adhikari
Have you wondered ‘how philosophers think?’
Even I didn’t until I had a philosophical trip
Do you want to know ‘how philosophers do it?’
Even if you don’t the answer is
‘they do it deeply
they do it conceptually
they do it consistently
they do it reasonably
they do it with their minds
to question why they did it.’
For every philosopher who exists;
there is always an equal and opposite one.
They logically prove
each other
wrong.
Is it for the love of truth
or the love of
thoughts
that they are critiques of pure reason.
The first one starts out
at a point unworthy of being stated.
While the last one dissolves
our mind with his paradoxes.
‘Which one to believe in?’
One asks Another to prove that
‘This chair does not exist.’
Another says ‘What chair?’
and both go to their solipsist conventions.
If our mind is a light bulb
one defines the bulb.
The other two argue
about its existence or non existence or both
One might stand at one end
distinguishing its light from darkness.
The other at the opposite end
would reason that true light is impossible.
All while the last one is lost
in symbolizing its essence
or rather its nothingness.
At the end of this
series:
of refutations.
When one raises a question to a philosopher
after reading his philosophy;
He doesn’t answer
not because he is dead (that’s obviously true)
but because the answer lies in the philosophy
of the successive philosopher and so on.
There is finally one truth that we find:
‘We are still struggling
with those same old questions.’
Travelling on a route from nowhere to nothingness.
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