{"id":6871,"date":"2015-11-07T05:06:05","date_gmt":"2015-11-07T05:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/11\/07\/can-philosophy-be-justified-in-a-time-of-crisis\/"},"modified":"2015-11-07T05:06:05","modified_gmt":"2015-11-07T05:06:05","slug":"can-philosophy-be-justified-in-a-time-of-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/11\/07\/can-philosophy-be-justified-in-a-time-of-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Philosophy be Justified in a Time of Crisis?"},"content":{"rendered":"

An abstract with the above title has been making the rounds.  No doubt you have seen it, so there is no need to link to it, nor does it deserve a link.  It is almost certainly a joke, and if not, then the author is a fool.  But since I have just made a harsh allegation, perhaps you should see<\/a> for yourself.<\/span><\/p>\n

There have always been crises.  Human history is just one crisis after another.  The 20th Century was a doosy: two world wars, economic depression, the rise of unspeakably evil totalitarian states, genocide, the nuclear annihilation of whole cities, the Cold War that nearly led to WWIII (remember the Cuban Missile Crisis of October, 1962?), and then after the Evil Empire was quashed, the resurrection of radical Islam.  Should we conclude that philosophy has never been justified?  But then science has never been justified and much of the rest of what we consider high culture.  For they have their origin in philosophy.<\/span><\/p>\n

Perhaps you don't agree with my 'origins' claim.  Still, plenty in life is of value regardless  of its utility in mitigating whatever crisis happens to be in progress.  Or do you think Beethoven should have been a social worker?<\/span><\/p>\n

But the really fundamental error is to think that philosophy needs<\/em> justification in terms of something external to it. I demolish this notion with the precision and trenchancy you have come to expect in Should One Stoop to a Defense of Philosophy or the Humanities?<\/a> <\/span><\/p>\n

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An abstract with the above title has been making the rounds.  No doubt you have seen it, so there is no need to link to it, nor does it deserve a link.  It is almost certainly a joke, and if not, then the author is a fool.  But since I have just made a harsh … Continue reading “Can Philosophy be Justified in a Time of Crisis?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-human-predicament","category-metaphilosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}