There are two branches of philosophy, literary(platonic), and natural(aristoteli

There are two branches of philosophy, literary(platonic), and natural(aristotelian). Natural philosophy evolved into empiricism and science. Even the continental vs analytic divide still follows this demarcation. Why? west germanic is a practical military culture of farmers, and English is a legal, commercial, and scientific language of administration of scale reinforced by the Normans and the sequence of revolutions in innovation that followed the restoration of the classics (aristotle) to Europe as intellectuals fled the fundamentalist shift in Islamic countries. The english invented the modern state, and rolled the church into the state, creating a pervasive culture of empirical administration. The french were the most backward and corrupt government in Europe, most in league with the church and ever desirous of transferring the power of papacy and rome to France. With the english revolution in empiricism, france rebelled against it and sought something closer to church rule to enforce conformity with state socialism. The germans sought to replace the independence of the individual interpretation of the bible under protestantism with a new form of reason(kant). the jews( Mendelsohn) reformed their laws somewhat to be rational rather than supernatural. Then abandoned them in favor of marxism and socialism. The russians ever desirous of mirroring french authoritarianism, and much more mystical and superstitious as a people, favored literature of suffering instead of moral rationalsm of the germans, the optimistic moralism of the french, and the procedural morals of the English. Everyone resists modernity invented by the English because everyone was less developed at the time it was invented by the English – and all civilizations double down on their priors.

Just as you, wish to double down on yours. 😉

There is nothing left in philosophy that is not better done by science – albeit it requires more knowledge.

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