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Small aside but their is something particularly humorous to me in this relatively recent phenomena where people who worry about "wokeness" start pointing to fai
by beepbooptheory 4y ago
Small aside but their is something particularly humorous to me in this relatively recent phenomena where people who worry about "wokeness" start pointing to fairly vanilla and historical Western philosophers as the authors of contemporary social ills. Foucault and Derrida? I can understand the way that thought process went, but now increasingly its figures like Kant and Rawls. How far will it go? In a few months people will say Kierkegaard was a SJW and Husserl was responsible for decadent Liberal introspection and pronouns in the bio.
Idk, nobody is going to be talking about these people in a year, but it is very interesting to see this now.
- whimsicalism 4y agoI agree largely with what you are saying, although (as a fan of Rawls) I don't really think linking Rawls to "social justice" as a concept is as far-fetched as you seem to think. Kant? Yes.
- beepbooptheory 4y agoYes I guess you are right about that, and I don't know enough about Rawls to say much more.. But if an analytic 20th century social philosopher is going to be a "woke" guy now, I don't know who is not vulnerable to that charge anymore. But I guess thats the point.
- cato_the_elder 4y agoI think you have a point, and generally the influence of these guys is overstated. But maybe if you're very charitable, you could see that as steelmanning the contemporary positions, instead of merely assigning blame.