{"id":8242,"date":"2013-12-27T05:43:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-27T05:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/12\/27\/the-mad-monarchist\/"},"modified":"2013-12-27T05:43:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-27T05:43:00","slug":"the-mad-monarchist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/12\/27\/the-mad-monarchist\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mad Monarchist"},"content":{"rendered":"

London Karl sent me to The Mad Monarchist<\/a>, not that he agrees with it.  Apparently, there is no position on any topic that someone won't defend.  But we've known that for a long time.  Descartes said something to that effect.<\/span><\/p>\n

Is anarchism the opposite of monarchism?<\/span><\/p>\n

Anarchism is to political philosophy as eliminative materialism is to the philosophy of mind.  That is to say, it is an untenable stance, teetering on the brink of absurdity,  but worth studying as a foil against which to develop something saner.  To understand in depth any position on a spectrum of positions you must study the whole spectrum.<\/span><\/p>\n

Study everything.  For almost every position on any topic contains some insight or other, even if it be only negative.  The monarchist, for example, sees clearly what is wrong with pure democracy.  If there are any positions wholly without value, then they are still worth studying with the philosophical equivalent of the pathologist's eye and the philosophical equivalent of the pathologist's interest.<\/span><\/p>\n

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London Karl sent me to The Mad Monarchist, not that he agrees with it.  Apparently, there is no position on any topic that someone won't defend.  But we've known that for a long time.  Descartes said something to that effect. Is anarchism the opposite of monarchism? Anarchism is to political philosophy as eliminative materialism is … Continue reading “The Mad Monarchist”<\/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":[72,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sage-advice","category-social-and-political-philosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8242","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=8242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}