Most training of philosophers goes into training to represent the ideas of other philosophers. But to do that well, you need to be at a level where you could have them yourself, and few philosophers are ever getting there.
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Replying to @Plinz
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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Replying to @SimsYStuart @Plinz
... 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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Replying to @SimsYStuart
Beyond the obvious limits of our ability to catalogue and deeply understand the present space of ideas, and their significance to future cultural universes, I think that our ability may be proportional to our ability of being able to ignore the zeitgeist.
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Replying to @Plinz
Maybe, but subtracting oneself from the spirit of your time also diminishes your ability to understand your own time on a deeper, visceral, human level. Intellectual abstraction often results in a deficit in other areas, especially when it’s a chronic condition.
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Replying to @SimsYStuart
To the contrary: Being immersed in the ideologies of your time makes it impossible to understand them.
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Replying to @Plinz
In some ways, primitive human understanding can surpass bayesian understanding. Because our brain has millions of years understanding reality through instinct, the heuristics of that sort of understanding can be highly advanced.
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I don't think that "primitive" is a concept with the correct connotations here. Human brains with similar brains and development duration will model the universe at a similar level of complexity, regardless of the brand of the conceptual abstractions offered their local village.
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