John Lachs criticizes the philosopher’s lack of public initiative.
https://philosophynow.org/issues/75/Can_Philosophy_Still_Produce_Public_Intellectuals
Can Philosophy Still Produce Public Intellectuals?
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A poignant article.Philosophy Now wrote: ↑Thu May 17, 2018 9:46 pm John Lachs criticizes the philosopher’s lack of public initiative.
https://philosophynow.org/issues/75/Can ... ellectuals
Professional philosophers should take note.
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According to the author there isn't much hope of that. Philosophy now belongs to the hallowed halls of academia and, as I long suspected, hardly of any value to anyone else. In operation a close analogy would be as a "Grand Academy at the capital city of Lagado" in Gulliver's Travels
Excellent essay on how philosophy has failed its mandate in consideration of what is most significant to the planet and consequently humans...a confirmation long overdue. Sometimes it seems were striving for artificial intelligence within ourselves before it gets passed on to an actual artificial entity.
Excellent essay on how philosophy has failed its mandate in consideration of what is most significant to the planet and consequently humans...a confirmation long overdue. Sometimes it seems were striving for artificial intelligence within ourselves before it gets passed on to an actual artificial entity.
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I don't believe that has ever happened. I feel that type of talent must be in the genes.
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Sanity is a mental illness everything we understand of the human condition stems from irrational madness to form disorder into order.
Generally the philosophers to today are weak. The article correctly assesses many of the issues.
Everything we understand of a civilization, a way of life, and all the perspectives that compose these things are composed of ideas. The philosophers of today not only cannot stand against the current reign of materialism because of this very same lack of ideas (due to laziness and love of comfort), but lack the raw intellectual brutality to tear people's world views apart because they fear losing their own.
Philosophy however is given a simple axiom today, if it is to look deep within itself and the world around it: the number of opinions and ideas are innumerable and this leads to a source of confusion given the nature of "choice" one has to make.
Do I believe this or that? Is this the foundation for reason or that? Is that moral or that?
The truest philosopher, one that we need for our times, is one that will be able to start a war against everyone and everything even the gods themselves (metaphorically speaking) in order to "just wipe it all away" and start a new.
The philosopher of today should bring wholesale destruction at the macro and micro level of all the ideas those compose everyone and everything. Wars are started over questions and ideas, not because "he as more than me"...because that in itself is an idea. All change starts will a small division in the mind...a simple line which separates "this" from "that".
The philosopher should be able to break a person's mind and will only with a few questions...no philosopher can do this today because they are unwilling to sacrifice themselves to themselves. They should be able to do this at the public level, the personal level, and the level of social media.
Ask any wiseman the meaning of life, and as Wittgenstein observed, they will say "all is vain"...what is more vain than destruction of idea that composes a system, set of beliefs, or a person? What is vanity but an image? What is an image but a medium to truth? The philosopher today, if any order to be not just composed but maintained for the future generations, should not just be attacking everyone and everything but intellectual foundations of society itself.
One does not have to look deep to observe one does not find peace or contentment in this life...why bother with this bullshit then? Noone wants happiness, you can tell because they are too addicted to the struggle to find it...just look at the lives of the women who are in charge of this generation...and it is the woman that is in charge.
Philosophy essentially has become neutered because it forgot one simple truth: How to draw a line to simultaneously create and destroy a reality, a universal phallis of the mind so to speak. Penetrate the darkness with a line and a new reality is formed, no different than the motions of a man and woman creating a child...this will prevent stagnation and that is what modern philosophy is guilty of: sterility.
The simple truth is that most people do not have the right to speak, with those who have the right earning it by shear force of reason and intellect alone...degrees are for beauty pageants and that is what academia is: a beauty pageant with everyone getting a chance to jerk eachother in congratulation over the "knowledge" they produced...the weak feeble lines they applied to reality.
Generally the philosophers to today are weak. The article correctly assesses many of the issues.
Everything we understand of a civilization, a way of life, and all the perspectives that compose these things are composed of ideas. The philosophers of today not only cannot stand against the current reign of materialism because of this very same lack of ideas (due to laziness and love of comfort), but lack the raw intellectual brutality to tear people's world views apart because they fear losing their own.
Philosophy however is given a simple axiom today, if it is to look deep within itself and the world around it: the number of opinions and ideas are innumerable and this leads to a source of confusion given the nature of "choice" one has to make.
Do I believe this or that? Is this the foundation for reason or that? Is that moral or that?
The truest philosopher, one that we need for our times, is one that will be able to start a war against everyone and everything even the gods themselves (metaphorically speaking) in order to "just wipe it all away" and start a new.
The philosopher of today should bring wholesale destruction at the macro and micro level of all the ideas those compose everyone and everything. Wars are started over questions and ideas, not because "he as more than me"...because that in itself is an idea. All change starts will a small division in the mind...a simple line which separates "this" from "that".
The philosopher should be able to break a person's mind and will only with a few questions...no philosopher can do this today because they are unwilling to sacrifice themselves to themselves. They should be able to do this at the public level, the personal level, and the level of social media.
Ask any wiseman the meaning of life, and as Wittgenstein observed, they will say "all is vain"...what is more vain than destruction of idea that composes a system, set of beliefs, or a person? What is vanity but an image? What is an image but a medium to truth? The philosopher today, if any order to be not just composed but maintained for the future generations, should not just be attacking everyone and everything but intellectual foundations of society itself.
One does not have to look deep to observe one does not find peace or contentment in this life...why bother with this bullshit then? Noone wants happiness, you can tell because they are too addicted to the struggle to find it...just look at the lives of the women who are in charge of this generation...and it is the woman that is in charge.
Philosophy essentially has become neutered because it forgot one simple truth: How to draw a line to simultaneously create and destroy a reality, a universal phallis of the mind so to speak. Penetrate the darkness with a line and a new reality is formed, no different than the motions of a man and woman creating a child...this will prevent stagnation and that is what modern philosophy is guilty of: sterility.
The simple truth is that most people do not have the right to speak, with those who have the right earning it by shear force of reason and intellect alone...degrees are for beauty pageants and that is what academia is: a beauty pageant with everyone getting a chance to jerk eachother in congratulation over the "knowledge" they produced...the weak feeble lines they applied to reality.