John Lachs thinks it can get back on track.
Need her pertaining to what factors in what set of circumstances? And hasn't science basically shrugged off moral and political conflagrations as beyond the reach of "natural laws"? Instead, for those like Plato and Aristotle and Descartes and Kant, it all comes back around to God...and not the scientific method.Philosophy has lost its way. At one point, it was the queen of the sciences, but the sciences grew up and, like naughty children, came to believe they didn’t need her.
If only up in the theoretical clouds. For many here in my view. Something is rational simply because someone believes that it is reasonable "in their head". And for the objectivists among us, if something is rational that makes it moral.Many once thought she was the guide to life, rivaling religion but offering a more rational way.
There you go. That again. The No God political ideologues, the deontologists and those who intertwine the "right thing to do" with biological imperatives are only interested in demanding that everyone else must subscribe to their own set of facts. Then one or another rendering of "or else".However, philosophy could not match the emotional power of the offer of salvation. Then philosophy fell in love with physics and tried to imitate the precision of its inquiry. But it was incapable of discovering a single new fact.
I really have no idea how "for all practical purposes" this is understood by others. All I can do is to ask those here who think their own moral philosophy, as grappled with theoretically and technically, is reasonable once brought down to Earth and exposed to the complex realities of actual human interactions.That’s when the siren sang and told philosophers to move into the safe, sacred confines of the university. The siren explained that sufficient technical virtuosity would secure philosophers an entire department in the knowledge factory. There would be jobs, and they would be accorded the same honor as scientists (or almost the same). To be sure, they would have to teach a few students, but they could spend their time in the classroom discussing technique with little reference to results.