- 07 Jan 2021 22:05
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What is philosophy’s problem in the modern age?
Is it irrelevant? If so, why?
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Is it irrelevant? If so, why?
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I will express one thought, which may seem seditious: these two philosophies, apparently, in the best way express the “present existence” of our era, therefore it is impossible to defeat them in direct polemics. What society is like, so is its philosophical self-consciousness. A shoddy philosophy will live and win in the mass consciousness until, in the course of history itself, those material conditions of human life that nourish such a philosophy, the ideal evaporation of which it itself is, are removed.
Reform of teaching philosophy will not be able to radically help; it requires reforming the foundations of social life . For the sake of clarity, I will add that philosophy itself is in no way capable of this. Philosophy is as little able to change the world for the better or for the worse, as an ordinary mirror is to correct the physiognomy of the person who looks into it. Heine joked that philosophy cannot even lure a dog out of a kennel; the deadly blows that philosophers have exchanged for centuries are perfectly safe for life.
The real crisis of philosophy, in my opinion, lies not in the massive spread of philosophical surrogates, but in the absence in our day of figures of the scale of Spinoza or Hegel, who could understand and express by means of philosophy real being (in the serious meaning that Hegel gave to the category of real ) of modern man, hidden behind his present being "here-and-now".
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With all the differences in views and preferences, however, all philosophers at all times really did one common thing - they investigated the world of the human spirit, sought to understand its logical structure and determine the place occupied in this world by individual consciousness, a separate human "I". In the form of philosophy, a person is taken, as if from the outside, to observe how his thinking proceeds, how concepts, judgments, images are formed, and tries to regulate his own thinking. Philosophy is the anatomy and mechanics of the human mind. Reason is understood here not simply as the ability of the individual human soul (consciousness), which the latter possesses along with imagination, speech, emotions, etc., but as a world of ideas, scientific and artistic, moral and political-legal, economic and religious, - in general, all the ideas that the human spirit has managed to discover during several millennia of its history. Analysis of them, of these ideas, is the main, if not the only task of philosophy. This, I think, is its true purpose in the "age of the Internet", as well as in any other age.
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