If…
Philosophy has any value beyond mental masturbation
Then…
the state of modern society is proof of the errors contained in the work of philosophers past, which is why I tend to avoid the study of philosophy: if I imbibe the thought of those who created the errors it is most likely I will internalize and repeat the same errors. However if I rethink the entire system it is most likely I will not make the same errors as the thinkers of antiquity, and by the difference in our errors the advancement of mankind may then be accomplished.
The trouble is not the philosophers: it's that very few read or listen to them.
ReplyDeletei used to tend to assume the same thing, 'nos,
ReplyDeletebut in my reading of modern thought on societal
evolution, i find that the original thinkers
were more on point way back then than is generally
realized today. like Jochanaan infers, we are our
own problem in not being prone to learn, modern
thinking or not.
now, we may be learning 'how'...
pip