From: Jeff Rubard on
Three Theses on Philosophy
(Concerning Gramsci's "Real Dialectics")

1. All philosophy is empirical -- concerned with those elements of
life
which resist a systematization which wicks them away from the
individual mind.

2. As such philosophy is fundamentally concerned with thought of the
person, but this in a sense excluding "rational reconstruction":
experience for philosophy is experience of events, insofar as
these
events resist subsumption under laws regular or irregular.

3. And given that therapeutic intent has been for a long time
excluded
from its goals, "theoretical philosophy" must be understood as a
preparation for ethics, an aid to assimilation to everyday life
such as Benjamin sought in the movie. The only discipline
"proper"
to philosophy is aesthetics.