Yeah, I'm with Mike. I don't mean to entirely trash scholasticism, just mostly. :-)
-- Ernie P. On Nov 17, 2011, at 1:23 PM, [email protected] wrote: > Metaphysical quackery ? I do get your point. It is entirely valid. > > But... > > The medieval philosophers also gave us the fundamentals of logic & > Whole sets of values issues that would eventually need to be resolved > to good effect even if their solutions were not optimal. Examples include > psychology, the rudiments of sociology eventually developed from those > beginnings by Vico, and the whole field of communications ( language > and its uses, word nuances, techniques for persuasion, and so forth ). > > Yet, I also agree that philosophy has taken a really wrong turn in > rejecting any kind of weltanschauung as a proper subject for philosophy > any more and , instead, mostly now focuses on grammar or close analysis > of propositions or ever more microscopic logical implications. > > Add to the list of great philosophers : > Samuel Clemens, Groucho Marx, Nora Ephron in "Crazy Salad." > > Billy > > -------------------------------------------------- > > > > 11/17/2011 12:48:21 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, [email protected] > writes: > One could argue that Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle derailed the > atomists, and started the inevitable slide into metaphysical > quackery. For hundreds of years, though, philosophy was chemistry, > math, biology, astronomy, governance, psychology... basically anything > that required contemplation or observation. Pythagoras, Caesar, > Cicero, Galileo, Leibniz, Mach, Jung, and Einstein were all > philosophers. > > -- > Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community > <[email protected]> > Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism > Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org > > > -- > Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community > <[email protected]> > Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism > Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <[email protected]> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org
