From: Matt the Enraged Endorphin (mpkundert@students.wisc.edu)
Date: Sun Feb 16 2003 - 01:55:21 GMT
DMB said:
The idea that philosophical activity somehow
inhibits political or personal growth never occured to me. And if the
critics of campus PC culture are right, today's academic professionals are
NOTHING BUT a bunch of activists. We need Ultimate answers before we can
act? I honestly can't think of anyone who has said so. I know certain great
thinkers like Plato are said to be guilty of this crime, but I just don't
see it.
Matt:
Ok, fair enough. You never thought of it that way. (Though, naturally,
Kevin nor I ever mentioned philosophy inhibiting personal growth. After
all, we are the ones advocating it's placement in the private sphere.) I
suggest reading, then, Rorty's 1997 William E. Massey Sr. Lectures in the
History of American Civilization, Achieving Our Country: Leftist Thought in
Twentieth-Century America. It's a pretty short read and gives a pretty
good indication of what Rorty thinks of American politics and how it
relates to philosophy.
Matt
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