Alexis Leggett: Philosophy and Style: External Reading 5

Philosophy and Style, Or Who’s Afraid of Beautiful Beasts?

Article by Iskra Fileva

http://www.aesthetics-online.org/articles/index.php?articles_id=32 

In a nutshell, this article is about a lack of authenticity in modern philosophical thought.  The author feels that philosophy is falling down the tubes in recent years with a lack of engaging style in writing.  While she does not believe that a text should be merely written to serve as entertainment, but she thinks that text needs to be written in a style that will engage the reader.  She writes that the author should let loose in writing and to not write in a way which we are critical of being formal for the reader.  In order to write good philosophical text we should write how we think.  I agree with this.  If we write exactly how we think we create an authentism in our writing.  If we do not censor our language to create a sort of formalistic writing, we create more raw thoughts which are more engaging to the reader.  Although I do agree with the points Fileva brings up in her article, I have to ask, if we are not thinking of the reader when we write will it cause us to write in a way which is hard to understand?  or should it be up the the reader to decipher our raw thoughts?    Overall, Fileva brings up a good point when it comes to philosophical writing.  Write exactly as we think=absolute true thought on paper.