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TPM: The Philosophers’ Magazine | Hacker’s challenge
If "the world doesn't have scaffolding", that's because it has walls, beams, a foundation, etc. Scaffolding can't be evaluated all on its own, even if it would be inappropriate to evaluate it as if it were a replica or scale model of the building.
The Great Truth About Mass Media and Democracy - James Garvey
The Great Truth About Mass Media and Democracy – James Garvey
I’ve come across this message now in several books and other sources of information, some scholarly, some not so scholarly. The condensed version is this: Our elites cannot trust the leadership and management of society to the masses. Said masses would structure society for their, and not the elites’ benefit, therefore public opinion must be carefully manipulated and groomed in order to keep…
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Before I disappear into the footnotes, it might help if I tell you how this started. Five years ago I had the philosophical equivalent of what recovering alcoholics call ‘a moment of clarity’. I was in a large, crowded lecture hall in London, listening to a talk given by a high-flying Oxford theologian, and I did something I almost never manage to do. During the question and answer session that followed his talk, I got in an absolutely killer objection. A philosopher behind me swore happily when he heard it. Another sitting next to me smiled, leaned over and whispered, ‘You’ve got him! You’ve got him in a regress!’ Indeed I had. I won the argument that night, plainly, and to come to the point, it made no difference at all. The speaker didn’t change his mind. He took more questions and just got on with promoting his view. It occurred to me then that maybe arguments aren’t actually very persuasive. Even really good ones. That’s what came to me in my moment of clarity.
The Persuaders by James Garvey
... philosophical questions aren't pursued for the same reasons as ordinary, practical ones. Philosophy, it gets said a lot, is born in curiosity, a plain desire to understand something, rather than the need to secure knowledge as a means to some other end. Someone might study genetics in the hope of producing more robust wheat crops. People read philosophy largely because they can't help it - they do philosophy for its own sake, not in an effort to get something else out of it.
The Story of Philosophy: a History of Western Thought, James Garvey and Jeremy Stangroom
