Has philosophy stalled? Right now we're at "Everything is the text," or something near it. Somewhere in the 20th century it became all about the theory of the narrative and learning how to use it to political advantage. I don't understand exactly what "post modernism" is, but I understand that it's all about identifying privilege structures and tearing them down. It rejects the idea that a meta social narrative can be derived, but doesn't hesitate to deconstruct society into micro-narratives and the pick them until it's bleeding.
Is there a post-post-modern collection of philosophy that I haven't come across?
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.Post modernism is a new incarnation of an old phenomena. Found a poetic illustration of this in the Bible; Proverbs 7. The ignorant will always be easily seduced by terrible ideas.
The_Farseer
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Apr 11, 2019
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I don't think philosophy has stalled NOW. It stalled a long time ago, or at least shifted it's place in the world. Philosophers as directors or guides fell silent for a very long time. I look at NOW like a revival as has been suggested. I think for a long time some type of insentient ebb pushed us all forward through technology. We simply went where innovation took us, and this is where we are--dangerous, but maybe we've gotten away with it without too much damage. Remains to be seen. But, it's comforting to see the reemergence of these guides, and I hope this trend continues for awhile. There seems to be momentum building for good, and I'm curious where that's going to take us.
chuckpo
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Apr 10, 2019
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Not to be a wet blanket, but "PHILOSOPHY" as a discipline that includes a great many schools of philosophical thought is still working. Philosophers are still debating metaphysics and many other lines of inquirerery. As a species, humans have not exhausted the discourses on meaning of life, ethics, and first questions.
Now if you wish to know about post modernism and it's successor, progressivism, YouTube abounds with a great many experts on the subject and these videos run from five minutes in length to an hour or so. Most expose the lies or false assumptions while a few try to make the case that these ideologies are essentially correct and of great use to mankind. I do have the feeling that the videos that are critical of post modernism and progressive political theories will eventually disappear. So much the worst for the world.
Marta-Amance
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Apr 10, 2019
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I just don't find much compelling after the adaptation of Marx from Capital/Labor to Oppressor/Oppressed made by the Critical Theorists and their application Literary Theory to everything from History to Law. Morals, Ethics, Meaning took a back seat to "emancipation" for over a hundred years. Somebody among the 20th century theorists summed it up with, "If we haven't found answers after 3000 year, the correct way to look at it is 'I don't care.'"
It's just in the last decades that anybody really started caring again, but so far the substance is thin.
I don't know. I'll keep at it.....
@govols I've noticed over the past twenty years that Stocism and phenomology have made big comeback amoung those who normally would not read philosophy. It is possible that those individuals who have never been involved in the normal religious indoctrination (going to church as a child) are looking for answers that belief in religion may satisfy. While many individuals find the type of athesism Dr Harris preaches gratifying, a similar number find it disatisfying. A belief in nothing is no belief in anything. This escape or withdrawal from metaphysics, which so many find far too difficult to wrestle with, is more a refusal to confront those eternal questions every generation must ask. Wh are we, where did we come from, and where are we going. The vague answer of progress is our most important value is mere delusion for we fail to define progress except as some utopian place.
The question is what of any value is going to be left after it's all been picked apart and shredded into bits? I think that's why a great number of people are finally starting to sit up and realize that it's all taxonomic, overly-reductive bullshit. The true answer is it's about "The People" and simply getting along-- you know, 'tolerance'. It is now, will be tomorrow, and it always has been-- the authoritarian elitists notwithstanding.
jwhitten
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Apr 10, 2019
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Might be that we are in a philosophical renaissance. Peterson, Shapiro, Haidt, Pinker and so many others. This site. Technology is making philosophy/ psychology etc readily available to so many people it's incredible. There appears to be a huge apatite for it.
Demere
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Apr 10, 2019
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They are revivalists trying to bring back rationality and sanity.
Maybe this is a beginning, but if it is we're at the criticism stage of turning back Critical Theory. Okay, it's a dead end because it is only deconstructive; it breaks things and then makes up "theory," dreams up all manner of oppression. It's hooked on power and it's corrupted.
Right now philosophy seems to be all about what's wrong, and little about what might be made right.
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