YES WE NEED PHILOSOPHERS, BUT HOW TO WE KNOW WHICH ONES? —“…there is simply

YES WE NEED PHILOSOPHERS, BUT HOW TO WE KNOW WHICH ONES?

—“…there is simply no avoiding the conclusion that the human race is mad. There are scarcely any human beings who do not have some lunatic beliefs or other to which they attach great importance. People are mostly sane enough, of course, in the affairs of common life: the getting of food, shelter, and so on. But the moment they attempt any depth or generality of thought, they go mad almost infallibly. The vast majority, of course, adopt the local religious madness, as naturally as they adopt the local dress. But the more powerful minds will, equally infallibly, fall into the worship of some intelligent and dangerous lunatic, such as Plato, or Augustine, or Comte, or Hegel, or Marx.”—David Stove

If you cannot make your argument in operational language you do not understand it.