Poll - 'Waiting for godot' a significant Philosophical Work?
| Poll: 'Waiting for Godot' is a significant philosophical work of 20th Century? This poll is closed. |
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| I've never seen/read it but I'd quite like to | 1 | 25.00% | |
| Don't know, don't care | 2 | 50.00% | |
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Poll - 'Waiting for godot' a significant Philosophical Work?
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 (January 15, 2015 at 4:14 pm)ManMachine Wrote:(January 15, 2015 at 1:02 pm)bennyboy Wrote: This is not really a hot topic in philosophy is it? What, did you just read it in a college lit class or something? I'm just going to sit here and wait for a question that inspires me mroe than that one. 
Um, Waiting For Godot isn't a philosophical work in itself. Granted, it's hard to write about it without turning your article into a philosophical treatise, but the play itself makes no theses. The reader just infers a philosophical meaning behind it because the actions on stage (by design) make no sense.
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![[Image: harmlesskitchen.png]](https://i.postimg.cc/yxR97P23/harmlesskitchen.png) I was born with the gift of laughter and a sense the world is mad.  (January 15, 2015 at 8:10 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: Um, Waiting For Godot isn't a philosophical work in itself. Granted, it's hard to write about it without turning your article into a philosophical treatise, but the play itself makes no theses. The reader just infers a philosophical meaning behind it because the actions on stage (by design) make no sense. I'm not sure I agree at all with your opening statement, I personally think it is deliberately a philosophical work, so does Professor Knowlson, Beckett's Friend and official Biographer, he said 'It asks all the big philosophical questions - about life and death and the uncertain purpose of what goes on in between - but in a way that isn't limited to a particular place or era.' I accept this hardly makes it a treatise, but that wasn't my question. I asked if it is a significant philosophical work, that a lot broader. I would also argue that the actions on stage do ultimately make sense and a number of significant themes emerge (see my reply to Chas). MM
"The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions" - Leonardo da Vinci
"I think I use the term “radical” rather loosely, just for emphasis. If you describe yourself as “atheist,” some people will say, “Don’t you mean ‘agnostic’?” I have to reply that I really do mean atheist, I really do not believe that there is a god; in fact, I am convinced that there is not a god (a subtle difference). I see not a shred of evidence to suggest that there is one ... etc., etc. It’s easier to say that I am a radical atheist, just to signal that I really mean it, have thought about it a great deal, and that it’s an opinion I hold seriously." - Douglas Adams (and I echo the sentiment) (January 15, 2015 at 9:58 pm)ManMachine Wrote: I'm not sure I agree at all with your opening statement, I personally think it is deliberately a philosophical work, so does Professor Knowlson, Beckett's Friend and official Biographer, he said 'It asks all the big philosophical questions - about life and death and the uncertain purpose of what goes on in between - but in a way that isn't limited to a particular place or era.'Really, I think there's a difference between something asking questions about life and something making the viewers ask questions about life. By the same logic you use, A Serbian Film would be a film about the history of Post-Cold-War Serbia, and not just a snuff film that uses its horrors as a metaphor for life in Serbia after the Cold War.
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I was born with the gift of laughter and a sense the world is mad. (January 15, 2015 at 10:44 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote:(January 15, 2015 at 9:58 pm)ManMachine Wrote: I'm not sure I agree at all with your opening statement, I personally think it is deliberately a philosophical work, so does Professor Knowlson, Beckett's Friend and official Biographer, he said 'It asks all the big philosophical questions - about life and death and the uncertain purpose of what goes on in between - but in a way that isn't limited to a particular place or era.'Really, I think there's a difference between something asking questions about life and something making the viewers ask questions about life. Ok, I see what you are saying. I still think it valid to ask if people think its a significant philosophical work. I take your response as a no. MM
"The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions" - Leonardo da Vinci
"I think I use the term “radical” rather loosely, just for emphasis. If you describe yourself as “atheist,” some people will say, “Don’t you mean ‘agnostic’?” I have to reply that I really do mean atheist, I really do not believe that there is a god; in fact, I am convinced that there is not a god (a subtle difference). I see not a shred of evidence to suggest that there is one ... etc., etc. It’s easier to say that I am a radical atheist, just to signal that I really mean it, have thought about it a great deal, and that it’s an opinion I hold seriously." - Douglas Adams (and I echo the sentiment) (January 20, 2015 at 6:20 pm)ManMachine Wrote:I don't deny your right to ask if it is a philosophical work. I'm just saying, I don't think it is.(January 15, 2015 at 10:44 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: Really, I think there's a difference between something asking questions about life and something making the viewers ask questions about life.
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