We are in an interesting time. It would be easy to skim something like this and say “those who don’t study the history of philosophy are doomed to repeat it,” a

We are in an interesting time. It would be easy to skim something like this and say “those who don’t study the history of philosophy are doomed to repeat it,” and this certainly seems to hold here. This has all been said. But what happens when all of the background in a field like philosophy is too much to internalize? What happens when the field is effectively constrained by the actors’ capacity for understanding or time for learning, and humans can’t incorporate meaningful new additions?