01.23.11
Plato and Kant: eonic correlations
If the proof of a pudding is in the eating, and the proof of a rule is in the exceptions, where should we look for the proof of a philosophy?…
This Times review of a book on philosophy shows the decline of philosophy at its most drastic: there Nietzsche seems to rule with a hyped oversimplification of Schopenhauer, thence Kant, with all the confusions that philosopher brought to the subject. Philosophy suffers from the ‘endgame effect’ where those who come last, like Nietzsche, or now the postmoderns, rule the roost by attacking all the greats who went before.
We can suggest a better approach using the correlation to the eonic effect: philosophy in the Greek Axial period, then in the modern transition, climaxing with Kant.
The clue here is to see the way in which Plato and Kant echo each other across the ages, almost as if the loss of Plato’s level (amidst his confusions) was restored by Kant. This is how Schopenhauer say the issue.
Philosophy is too involved in trying to be polite to scientism, and has lost all its clout. It should in the vanguard of Darwin critique, but instead has been neutralized to the braindead fate it now suffers.
Kant and Plato said,
February 2, 2011 at 7:20 am
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