Lou Marinoff Editorial Note Tudor B. Munteanu is an independent scholar of philosophy who works in the computer industry and will soon graduate in Computer Science from the Polytechnic University of New York. Mr. Munteanu recommends the ceiling medallion representing Philosophy from Raphael's Stanza della Segnatura . After pointing out the practical failure and dangerous framework of this type of counseling, Marinoff retains its form and supplies it with a new content, readily drawn from philosophy.
Philosophers become some sort of preventive health professionals, determined to alleviate suffering.
Unfortunately, the most important ideas and the great thinkers themselves are thoroughly and repeatedly misrepresented. Kant held that things are one certain, particular way but that all we can know are appearances. Whether you're looking at atoms, rocks, relationships, or societies, you can observe things in many ways. For example, look out your window at a tree. Now do the same in the middle of the night.