It’s difficult for me to make judgements on modern philosophy because history shows that the vast majority of the people who shaped the “space of ideas” (Nietzsche, Spinoza, Descartes) were not influential in their own time. It took centuries for their ideas to take root ...
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... Who knows how history will judge philosophers of 2019 in a hundred years. Or a thousand years. Will Christopher Langan’s CTMU be seen as the greatest genius of the 20th Century and Steven Hawking be considered to be a fool? Who can say?
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Since philosophers are close to the butt end of academia, just a notch above sociologists, you cannot expect smart people to stick with that career
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Academic philosophy is intellectualism. Most arguments are predictable narratives built on atomic units, coming from a deeper James Scottesq legibility-seeking mindset.
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Clear arguments, however esoteric/abstruse, almost feels comical when reality is gnarly and truth emerges from living “amidst the knots where languages and words fail.
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true for virtually every field that comes to mind, am i missing some? much of academia is mere mimesis
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Philosophy of action is the only way to access the adjacent possible, to see from a new ontological perch. Everything else is a juggling of abstractions.
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