IndieAgora

Unlike in the past, today's focus is on academic philosophy rather than what I call Socratic philosophy or an authentic quest for truth. This causes me to wonder about the future of meaningful philosophy, a philosophy that changes the life of the inquirer as opposed to playing intellectual gymnastics. Thanks to academic philosophy, most see philosophy as a belief, theory or opinion rather than as a tool. Thus, there is Descartes' philosophy, Huxley's philosophy, Rand's philosophy, and Russell's philosophy as opposed to a generic tool for understanding the nature of life and man's relationship to life, so he can improve the quality of his life. A tool that isn't founded upon or anchored to any authority as academic philosophy is. Today's focus is on knowing "what to think" as opposed to "how to think." It saddens me to see how dependent man is upon authority and security, which are illusions. In turn, he has become more confused and fearful.

He's clearly missed Heidegger and Foucault to name but two lol

Unfortunately Continental Philosophy still isn't exactly mainstream in British universities


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I disagree with him. Keep onwards with your readings and studyings whether at a university or at home. I don't believe it matters as we are all trying to discern truth from the same writings, not force feeding students an interpretation (unless it is a lecture only class but that is unheard of here).


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