WE CAN NOW OBJECTIVELY AND SCIENTIFICALLY JUDGE GOOD PHILOSOPHERS AND BAD PHILOS

WE CAN NOW OBJECTIVELY AND SCIENTIFICALLY JUDGE GOOD PHILOSOPHERS AND BAD PHILOSOPHERS

(suggestions wanted)

If we acknowledge that democracy is a failure, and all philosophers who attempted to justify democracy failures, and all philosophers who attempted to expand democracy into socialism and postmodernism failures, we are left with instrumentalists (empiricists) and reactionaries of various fields.

Philosophy as a discipline, must face the uncomfortable fact, that (a) the metaphysical program failed and was solved by cognitive science, and (b) the democratic program failed and was solved by economists (c) therefore the political program failed, and was solved by heterodox philosophers (d) the ethical problem failed and was solved by economists and heterodox philosophers. The reason for this is obvious: the incentives in Academia to attempt to replace the church’s mysticism with some sort of collectivist democratic rationalism, had it’s predictable influence.

Philosophers can produce good neutral and bad influences. Unfortunately, the greater body of philosophers that have been influential since the american revolution, have been more destructive than beneficial. We can never forgive Marx and Freud, any more than we can forgive Kant and Rousseau.

“Thou Shalt Not Harm” not only applies to doctors, but to philosophers, and to all of us.

I give great weight to computer science because unlike the logic of language and unlike abstract and mathematical logic, computer science does not drop the property of operationalism in real time from its reasoning. As such it has higher correspondence with actionable reality than mathematics, and farm more so than formal logic. And if we seek to make informal logic of any value we must learn from computer science and return the property of operationalism to philosophical discourse. Because without it, it certainly appears to consist almost entirely of nonsense built upon linguistic deception.

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99. Aristotle

99. Niccolo Machiavelli

99. Adam Smith

99. Max Weber

99. Emile Durkheim

99. David Hume

99. John Locke

99. G.W.F. Hegel

99. Friedrich Nietzsche

(lesser candidates)

99. Robert Michels

99. Steven Pinker

99. Jonathan Haidt

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99. Rene Descartes

99. Alan Turing

99. Karl Popper

99. Gottlob Frege

99. W.V.O. Quine

99. Saul Kripke

THE BAD PHILOSOPHERS

99. Immanuel Kant

99. Ludwig Wittgenstein

99. Karl Marx

99. Soren Kierkegaard

99. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

20. John Rawls

99. Martin Heidegger

99. Jacques Derrida

99. Michelle Foucault

99. Jean-François Lyotard

99. Jean Baudrillard

99. Murray Rothbard

THE FRANKFURT SCHOOL’S BAD PHILOSOPHERS

Max Horkheimer

Theodor W. Adorno

Herbert Marcuse

Friedrich Pollock

Erich Fromm

Otto Kirchheimer

Leo Löwenthal

Franz Leopold Neumann

Siegfried Kracauer

Alfred Sohn-Rethel

Walter Benjamin

Jürgen Habermas

Claus Offe

Axel Honneth

Oskar Negt

Alfred Schmidt

Albrecht Wellmer