Daniel DennettVerified account

Most answers come on time.

You wouldn't be a good philosopher if you had answers ;)

Politics ignores the scientific basis of power, economy that of economic "value", and philosophy that of pathogenic thought that gave rise to the invention of these three disciplines. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-9_h5iy_Is5OXNWclhNcm1VZUE/view …

“Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.” ― Winston S. Churchill

probably some neural process in the brain inni't

Pity those who do know the answers

Perhaps elections are liberalism's Achilles heel.  If our representatives were chosen by lot the Punch & Judy show media would be mere entertainment and the rent seekers would struggle to buy legislation like rich Athenians struggled.

I believe the answers can be found in the last sentence of the first footnote: "Obviously, the lived history of liberalism involves entanglements with imperialism, racism, chattel slavery, patriarchy, etc." They all came to an end, and so will liberalism.

If you put Hegel's dialectics together with an understanding of how abstract nouns muddy one's thoughts, it becomes clear how intellectual evolution gets mired down in divisiveness, especially when it suits the interests of the ruling classes. Take the words "conservative"

" (thesis) and "liberal" (antithesis), for example. Because it's politically expedient to keep these two voting blocs discrete, no synthesis is possible, when in fact, using a Ven diagram, the two have much in common. The same is true with religious debate. If believers (the