RE: Generally speaking, is philosophy a worthwhile subject of study?
February 24, 2022 at 11:23 pm
(This post was last modified: February 24, 2022 at 11:28 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
I'm sure you'll find something to enjoy about it. But if we were to look at the publications list of the philosophical review out of duke, for example, we'd find that they aren't trying to mine dante for answers to questions facing us today. Just as science has moved well beyond it's many early theories. It was a relationship between the two that characterized the move in both regards. There are specialists that deal with historic positions..but that's what they are, specialists in the history of philosophy.
That isn't to say that there aren't the odd folks who pick something up and say "lets revisit this, I think there's something here". There are. I get the impression that people imagine that to be the entirety of contemporary philosophy when it's very much not - or, perhaps, that's the set of Bad Questions. If so, though, then at least some of the objections to and criticisms of philosophy in thread are better directed at whatever sliver of philosophy and philosophers they properly refer to.
But fuck me, there I am doing philosophy again, amiright?
That isn't to say that there aren't the odd folks who pick something up and say "lets revisit this, I think there's something here". There are. I get the impression that people imagine that to be the entirety of contemporary philosophy when it's very much not - or, perhaps, that's the set of Bad Questions. If so, though, then at least some of the objections to and criticisms of philosophy in thread are better directed at whatever sliver of philosophy and philosophers they properly refer to.
But fuck me, there I am doing philosophy again, amiright?
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