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Should Philosophy Now discussions be the new central government, and replace the current system?
Posted: Tue Nov 09, 2021 6:39 pm
by trokanmariel
Can, and should Philosophy Now debates function as the new central government, replacing the current system, of elected politicians throughout the world?
Re: Should Philosophy Now discussions be the new central government, and replace the current system?
Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2021 1:03 am
by promethean75
Absolutely not. It's 'philosophers' who got the world into this mess.
Remember the wisdom of the Beard: 'The philosophers have only to dissolve their language into the ordinary language, from which it is abstracted... etc.'
Re: Should Philosophy Now discussions be the new central government, and replace the current system?
Posted: Sat Dec 11, 2021 12:51 pm
by trokanmariel
promethean75 wrote: ↑Thu Dec 09, 2021 1:03 am
Absolutely not. It's 'philosophers' who got the world into this mess.
Remember the wisdom of the Beard: 'The philosophers have only to dissolve their language into the ordinary language, from which it is abstracted... etc.'
Are you saying that people can be small p philosophers?
Re: Should Philosophy Now discussions be the new central government, and replace the current system?
Posted: Sun Dec 12, 2021 3:43 pm
by promethean75
Sure, why not. Wittgensteinean language games - which accounts for nearly the entire edifice of continental philosophy post-presocratic grease - are generally harmless... so long as they are not given jurisdiction over law and social order. For that, only historical materialism will work, free of all the linguistic and conceptual confusions that philosophy is part and parcel of.
Re: Should Philosophy Now discussions be the new central government, and replace the current system?
Posted: Sun Dec 12, 2021 6:05 pm
by trokanmariel
promethean75 wrote: ↑Sun Dec 12, 2021 3:43 pm
Sure, why not. Wittgensteinean language games - which accounts for nearly the entire edifice of continental philosophy post-presocratic grease - are generally harmless... so long as they are not given jurisdiction over law and social order. For that, only historical materialism will work, free of all the linguistic and conceptual confusions that philosophy is part and parcel of.
To clarify, you're saying that the mass of public must be a user of commercialism, in order for there to be peace.
Re: Should Philosophy Now discussions be the new central government, and replace the current system?
Posted: Sun Dec 12, 2021 6:13 pm
by Sculptor
Why not?
We could not do such a bad job as the bunch of incompetnat clowns in charge at the moment.