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Susan Sontag in "On Style" (1966) said:
- 'It would be hard to find any reputable literary critic today who would care to be caught defending as an idea the old antithesis of style versus content. On this issue a pious consensus prevails. Everyone is quick to avow that style and content are indissoluble, that the strongly individual style of each important writer is an organic aspect of his work and never something merely "decorative."'
The same goes for philosophy. Content and form are one. Good content is ruined by poor style.
A true philosopher expresses himself in pithy quotable aphorisms, in juicy sound bites.
A true philosopher masters his metaphors.
A poor prose stylist does not deserve to be called a philosopher.
A true philosopher is a poet, obscuring and elucidating at the same time.
See philosophy and metaphor, Iceberg Theory, form and content.
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