Plato -> Kant = poop.
Like The Cloud said, metaphysicians are very very good at throwing dust in your eyes through monstrous convoluted arguments which hide the fact they are based on initial assumptions of some kind. Logical arguments of this kind are a house of cards.
Conclusion: philosophy shouldn't be an isolated topic. A historical perspective quickly reveals that philosophy is nothing more than a tradition of beliefs that flow from one to another chronologically. Philosophical theories are embodied in ALL the literature of a culture, not just "philosophy" texts. Philosophy, rightly, is literary criticism.
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Originally Posted by Neutral  An essay by Paul Graham on this very subject.
The essay ends with hope. Philosophy is still an open field!
P.S. Bertrand Russell believed the same thing about the state of philosophy up to his time. |
Yeah, it's all language games.