http://www.weeklystandard.com/yes-lets-call-philosophy-what-it-really-is/article/2002458Aren’t you falling into a conflation of terms?
Aren’t science and the common law the west’s system of thought? Isn’t the west’s philosophy empiricism?
Isn’t analytic philosophy a failed attempt at using the logic of sets, rather than operations (science)?
Aren’t the various forms of rational philosophy attempts at excuse-making? Deceit? Obscurantism?
Isn’t literary philosophy merely an attempt at forming a secular religion? And where it isn’t, it’s an appeal for political power by middle and lower middle classes?
Isn’t religious philosophy excuse making for authoritarianism?
Isn’t mysticism excuse making for ignorance and our uncontrollable pre-rational fears?
It’s not that we should be teaching other philosophies.
Its that we should stop teaching all the bad ones – including ours.
Curt Doolittle
The Propertarian Institute
Kiev, Ukraine
Source date (UTC): 2016-05-19 16:10:00 UTC