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One reason old philosophers were so famous was because of how difficult it was to be one (e.g., writing, having leisure time, corresponding with other philosoph
by hiddencost 3y ago
One reason old philosophers were so famous was because of how difficult it was to be one (e.g., writing, having leisure time, corresponding with other philosophers).
We produce orders of magnitude more, so everyone gets to pick their favorite ideology instead.
- randmeerkat 3y agoThis is really a great answer. Even someone without money in a less than stellar horse less carriage, who listens to orchestras on demand while eating and drinking any of dozens of different drinks and an equal variety of foods while going to their “mill” to make money for their meagre existence, laments the ideas of society and philosophy, but rather than write those thoughts on plentiful and cheap paper, simply groans and and suffers rather than engaging further in the social discourse with others. Society could certainly do more and we could certainly be more engaged with one another, and poverty certainly does exist, but so many fail to realize that even the poor live better than the kings of old.
- Avicebron 3y agoThis always felt like a tired retrospective to me. Sure maybe they do in some absolute sense. But they aren't existing in that time period, so the only real yardstick to use is he current time/dynamics, arguments that shift scales to distort a viewpoint are not helpful.
- pharmakom 3y agoThere was also much more low hanging fruit back then. Making significant contributions to a field only required scratching the surface.
- morelisp 3y agoThis feels more like a defense for some mid like a Plato than a Wittgenstein or Kripke.
- wolverine876 3y agoThat is said in every field at (almost) every time.
- mensetmanusman 3y agoJust create new fields.