Philosophy Thoughts as and when

Celebrating World Philosophy Day!🎊🎉🎊🎉🍾🍸🍸🍸🍸🎂🍰🍫🍫🍫🍫☕🌈🤗😘🌈 Here's  the gif I posted on Facebook of Foucault🌈showing passion for philosophical discussion, with the following comment: As you can see, philosophy is a rigorous, rational, logical, analytic and passionate thought process that depends on reasoned arguments, counterarguments and counterexamples in order to test the truth within the philosophical argument. Opinions don't count as philosophy because they are inadequate ideas. Philosophy is an exhausting thinking and writing process which requires skills that you have to learn. They don't come naturally out of thin air. It is an extraordinarily difficult subject to do well!  Happy #WorldPhilosophyDay ! 🎉🍾🍸🍸🎂🍰💖💖💖💖💖💖💖

 Following on from the latter part of my previous post: Templeton funding was suggested to me for my Spinoza research by a male lecturer over breakfast at the Aristotelian Society Annual Conference 2016. So I created a profile with them in all innocence, not realising what I was doing. After all, Rabbi Jonathan Sacks received a Templeton prize in 2016 so I assumed that my Jewish interpretation of Spinoza would be in their wheelhouse. However, I never actually used my profile to apply for any funding and just as well. Because I later discovered to my horror that the founder was an US-born ultra-conservative billionaire and that the foundation is known for being the top funder of rightwing popularism in the UK, according to the Guardian newspaper in  this article  and  another . In the latter article, they call this foreign interference in British politics. Of course, Templeton exploited a loophole by living in the tax haven of the Bahamas thereby making himself also British which led hi