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June 18

Category:Philosophical works

Propose merging Category:Philosophical works to Category:Philosophical literature, along with its subcategory structure: Category:Philosophical works by author, Category:Philosophy books by author, Category:Philosophical works by era, Category:Ancient philosophical works, Category:Contemporary philosophical works,Category:Medieval philosophical works, Category:Modern philosophical works.
Nominator's rationale: The philosophical literature category was created with the intention of containing all of this. There is no need for a "works" category for philosophy. Every "work" can be classified under literature.
Question - are ALL philosophical works written and therefore literature? Are there no philosophical works within other spheres such as the fine arts or music? Is Die Zauberflöte, for example, not a philosophical work? Beeswaxcandle (talk) 09:19, 19 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Philosophical fiction (however arbitrary) can be well extended into music or spoken epics. But opera libretto and spoken epic are literature. East of Borschov (talk) 11:31, 19 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I would answer yes to the question ,because once it crosses over into some non-written media, that media claims it. If is is a song, it belongs in music, not philosophy. If it is a scuplture, it belongs in art. People within the fields of music and art would find it quite off putting for philosophy to be encroaching on theor turf, and I would understand that. There is a sense in which everything belongs under philosophy, but we can't exactly do that pragmatically can we? Let the musicians have their music, etc. Greg Bard 22:38, 19 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Further Question. What about podcasts, such as Philosophy Bites? I regard these as philosophical works, but they aren't written and therefore, by definition, can't be considered literature. OK, there isn't currently an article on these, but doesn't the category structure have to allow for new ways of doing philosophy? Beeswaxcandle (talk) 08:01, 20 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
If a particular podcast achieved notability beyond Philosophy Bites such that it warranted its own article, at that point I would suppose there would be a transcript available. Philosophy Bites itself is properly categorized under "philosophical media." So the question of finding a philosophical "work" that wasn't also a piece of literature is still wanting. Furthermore, can someone name a single philosophical "work" (art work, song, etc) that actually had a notable impact on the history of philosophy? I am talking about notability from within the field of philosophy.Greg Bard 20:18, 20 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Alternative question - when Socrates was in the agora, he was doing philosophical work, but was he producing philosophical literature? Or is the latter a time-limited concept? AllyD (talk) 20:47, 20 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I think, for the purposes of philosophy, we are perfectly reasonable to place any such thing in literature, because inevitably and invariably, that is the form it takes. Socrates in the agora? If we have an example beyond Plato (which is all clearly literature), it surely has a name, and an account in subsequent philosophical literature. Whatever existence it has beyond that need not have its own category on WP. "Works" is a bit of overcat to me. We can place the whole of "phil lit" under all the same cats as "phil works" without any problem.Greg Bard 20:57, 20 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
My idea was to make a category that will contain solely philosopgical works (texts, essays etc.). The category "philosophical literature" should contain not only works themselves, but also articles about philosophical literature in general, such as for example Consolatio Literary Genre, Soviet Orientalist studies in Islam, and also articles about magazines, encyclopedias etc, that are also not 'works', but are literature.--Abiyoyo (talk) 17:07, 23 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I see where you are coming from. I had not considered that issue. I think conspicuously identifying this type of article as distinct from the rest of philosophical literature is wise. However, I think that is what the main "philosophical literature" category is supposed to be for. The rest is supposed to be diffused to some subcategory(ies). I think the alternative is to rename the philosophical literature task force also, in order to be consistent. This really is a difference between a piece-of-literature and a meta-piece-of-literature both of which are pieces of literature. Greg Bard 01:22, 26 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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