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A bit of an aside, but I took a number of philosophy courses as an undergraduate (ended up minoring in it). While my professors stayed away from stating their o
by dlivingston 7y ago
A bit of an aside, but I took a number of philosophy courses as an undergraduate (ended up minoring in it). While my professors stayed away from stating their own opinions on politics or religion - their teaching was effectively the Socratic method of "asking questions to separate the wheat from the chaff" - one notable exception to this was libertarianism.
Libertarianism, for whatever reason, was subtly mocked in at least one class that I took, for things such as this: https://www.businessinsider.com/libertarian-peter-thiel-utopia-seasteading-institute-2018-3 https://www.businessinsider.com/libertarian-peter-thiel-utop...
- missingrib 7y agoLibertarianism is normally mocked because of actual libertarians. But yes it is not very popular in academia. I'd still say it's more popular among philosophers than in the rest of the humanities.