PPS 3 Begriffsperson ? / Concept-Person

>Philosophy< -according to Deleuze/Guattari 1996- is c r e a t i n g concepts (Ffm: Was ist Philosophie? p. 10) But Thomas Polednitschek is also borrowing the term >concept-person< from these authors. The prototype is Socrates „as the concept-person of Plato´s philosophy“. And Polednitschek applies the term to philosophical practioners: philosophy gets „a human face“ in a philosophical practice, the face of the philosophical practitioner (Φπ).

On the one handside there is the praise of „poverty“- , like Socrates the Φπ is aware that she or he „does not know“ (beati pauperes spiritu). On the other side the Φπ is creating a conceptual constellation (>stella< is Latin for a star in the sky) and this fortunate constellation makes it possible for the visitor in the philosophical practice to find his or her way out of a life problem, cf. PPS p.8 and pp. 19 f

Polednitscheks Politischer Sokrates 1 --> Belgrad meeting 2014

Was will Philosophische Praxis ? WHAT IS THE AIM OF philosophical practitioners?
Φπ (philosophical practice) acts in contrast to the view of  the philosopher Jürgen Mittelstaß , who sees the proper center of a philosophical dialogue in that >anthropological< place, where we try to make the differences of the singularity of Alter and of Ego vanish – in processes of gaining knowledge.
Reference to Juergen Mittelstraß, Wissenschaft als Lebensform (Science/Philosophy as a Form of Life), Frankfurt 1982, p. 149
 Φπ (philosophical practice) places the singularity of the visitors & the singularity of  the Φπ (philosophical practitioner) in the center of dialogical thinking.
See: Thomas Polednitschek, Politischer Sokrates (PPS) , Muenster 2013, p. 5

But do the philosophers Thomas and  Juergen refer  to the same ?  If not, there is no contradiction, but difference. Is this a central point with respect to academic philosophy and Φπ (philosophical practice)?


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