 Hi, so we continue today with our reading of what is philosophy by Deleuze and Gata and Quite quickly in page two They give the answer to the question they give an answer to give a brief Concentrated formula They write philosophy is the art of forming inventing and Fabricating concepts so note here that Although they're famous for the formula that Philosophy is the creation of concepts here I don't speak about creation forming inventing fabricating in French the Formulates l'art de former d'inventé de fabriquer Okay, so this are terms that are close to creation And they nevertheless different at the same time they will of course use the term creation, but We will see how that might differ from the idea of a Fabrication for example, which is might be a Little technical and then they have this moment where they speak about Friends so There's sort of human embodiment and there Two points the first point is that They say that concepts need conceptual Personnel in French Personnel that play a part in their definition This is very Strange and very perhaps surprising for people who are who have a background in analytic philosophy or logic The fact that concepts are by some aspect of it connected to a Persona and they start by saying well the Topic of friendship the idea of a friend is such a conceptual persona that reveals that was Manifested in the Greek origin of philosophy others civilizations had Sages, but the Greeks introduced this Friends were not just more Modest Sages, what does it mean a friend? Well first of all if you are a friend of Wisdom philosophy Sophia This means that perhaps You do not fully coincide with that Understand with that knowledge that wisdom you are you have this Lover relationship with it You constantly Try to be in the presence of knowledge Perhaps you try to become one with knowledge But of course if you were one with knowledge You couldn't be said to be a friend So the idea of friendship Implies the idea of some sort of separation a close Complicity but nevertheless Not the full coincidence Does it designate a type of competent intimacy a sort of material taste and Potentiality like that of the joiner with wood Is the potential of wood latent in the good joiner is he the friend of the wood so It's interesting because in another book a thousand plateaus Do lozen get a his pick about that community of craftsman In this case, it's not the metaphor of the wood. It's the metaphor of the metal but nevertheless the idea that crafting a Material in a community of practice creates this sort of Is pretty car this sort of Complicity of friendship that comes from the fact that they are They have this shared Cosmology which uses some form of material element now One could say philosophy is not material, but nevertheless, we will see that Do lozen get a compare The concept to an aerial light We'll come back to that but basically they compared to a flying Meteor So there's this element. There's an element of Solidity in The philosophical concept, but it's a flying solidity, of course With the creation of philosophy the Greeks violently force the friend into a relationship that is no longer a Relationship with another but one with an entity An essence an objectality So we mentioned that point yesterday. What does it mean to be the friend of abstraction What does it mean to be the friend of concepts? Well If we agree with Maître a car master Eckert medieval Thinker that we become what we love If you are a friend of the concept You part of you becomes itself Concept and they they speak of a transcendental lived reality So this might mean that the The philosopher is someone that is lives in between the concept and Empirical existence by introducing in him or in her Some elements that are not Elements of flesh But at the same time by bringing into life by bringing into existence by bringing into the realm of flesh the abstract reality and Although the lesson get a he professed that they didn't like Hegel here Again, we will come back to that but here it sounds a little bit like the deployment of the concept in history that Hegel has spoken of What does friend mean when it becomes a conceptual persona or Condition for the exercise of thoughts, right and they speak of the lover the friend And of this idea that There is an element at least with with the Greeks there is an element of agonism, right that there is this rivalry of free men a generalized generalized athleticism The agon so it's not the it's not the full antagonism but it is a form of competitive emulation that Recognize the integrity of the essence they write and the rivalry of Claimance so the idea of friend and The Greek beginning of philosophy Supposed that philosophy is both an individual relationship with Entities that are not Human or not fully human but also a collective endeavor Right it's this idea of the dialogue so the question we will Ask and we will end here because again, I want to keep each episode around 10 minutes Can we do philosophy without being part of a community of Friends of the concept that's it for today and we'll continue tomorrow