(August 17, 2019 at 6:57 am)Belaqua Wrote:Quote:“I’ve never been worried about going beyond metaphysics or any death of philosophy. The function of philosophy, still thoroughly relevant, is to create concepts. Nobody else can take over that function. Philosophy has of course always had its rivals, from Plato’s “rivals” through to Zarathustra’s clown. These days, information technology, communications, and advertising are taking over the words “concept” and “creative,” and these “conceptualists” constitute an arrogant breed that reveals the activity of selling to be capitalism’s supreme thought, the cogito of the marketplace. Philosophy feels small and lonely confronting such forces, but the only way it’s going to die is by choking with laughter.”
— Deleuze, “On Philosophy,” Negotiations, p. 136
Like it or not, when our values are no longer decided by religion and philosophy, the work is mostly taken over by capitalism.
"Liberal education is liberation from vulgarity. The Greeks had a beautiful word for "vulgarity"; they called it apeirokalia, lack of experience in things beautiful."
-- Leo Strauss
'All human values are derived from humanism and its perspective that the improvement of the human condition is the loftiest, most noble goal to which we can aspire. All values claimed to have originated from religions have, in fact, been hijacked from humanism.' - Hitchens
Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson