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1.03.2011

The philosophical experience

I was reading through the first article ("Why is football [soccer] so fascinating") in my christmas present, Soccer and Philosophy, and I really enjoyed what Paul Hoyningen-Huene has to say about the "genuine philosophical experience." He writes that:

It works like this: you are familiar with a certain phenomenon. You know it, you've experienced it many times, you've shared your experience with others, and it's just a common thing, nothing special. Suddenly, the being-taken-for-granted of the phenomenon cracks. Suddenly, the phenomenon, at least aspects of it, becomes mysterious. That's the philosophical experience: something entirely self-evident loses this quality and becomes a puzzle, completely unexpectedly.

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