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Old 05-23-2004, 05:21 PM   #9
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Tolkien was not a philosopher. That is plain enough. So are we taking things a little far?
Well, any keen thinker is a philosopher in some capacity or other. It's already been mentioned that you don't need to be paid for teaching philosophy to actually practice some form of it, whether in your work, or daily life, or both.

Furthermore, dispensing a philosophy is not contained within writing down truisms on life or beating anyone over the head with a metaphoric hammer of insistence. Writers, I would say, are subtle philosophers in that regard.

And Tolkien, I dare venture, is less subtle than some (well, comparatively speaking).

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Are we seeing things that aren’t really there?
In some cases, perhaps, but what is the price we would pay for completely abstaining from that?

I could think of one off the top of my head.

It would be a boring forum.
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