Also found in the more secular thinking of the ancient philosophers between engagement with the world & retiring from it to cultivate wisdom
That would be good but that would entail overturning the whole system of thinking which led to this in the first place
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The 'system of thinking' would be due to the lack of political & idealogical diversity, correct?
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And the shift towards postmodernism in the academic left which I wrote about recently?
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I thought that was covered by the lack of diversity.
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Yes, kind of, but I'm really thinking of a large-scale academic shift in thinking which has also permeated culture more widely.
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The dominance of this is certainly manifested in a lack of diversity of ideas but I tend to see it more in terms of a big cultural shift.
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