Philosophy Now Forum

I enjoyed this essay and found it largely on track. However, the piece concludes with: "The declared aim of the Vienna Circle was to make philosophy either subservient to or somehow akin to the natural sciences. As Ray Monk says in his superb biography Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius (1...

This strikes me as a way to fan the flames of libertarianism. The notion that we only have duties to ourselves has wrought much of the current free-market madness of our age that is undermining society and basic ecological survival.

http://existentialcomics.com/comic/38