Wouldn’t It Be Cool If POLITICS learned from PHILOSOPHY?
WIBCI we understood Myth vs. Philosophy?
Daniel N. Robinson Ph.D. Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Georgetown/Oxford University in a lecture on Philosophy discusses Myth vs. Philosophy:
The Myth answers perplexing questions but it answers them in a special kind of way. It answers them in such a way as to create and preserve a kind of civic coherence. Now to some extent Philosophy is disruptive in just this regard. The enterprise is not an essentially civic one. It does not begin with a settled position on political and moral matters, then seeking ways to enshrine the settled view. Rather the mission is a broadly epistemological one. The search, as we shall discover, is the search for truth, or at least for such illumination as to allow us to see the biases and half-truths that have lead from one blind alley to another in the labyrinth of thought.
Imagine if politics were so fluid and open to what is Better For The Most?
Imagine if those in politics wanted to illuminate the public rather than take from them?
Do YOU think philosophy could do this for YOU?
Last Updated on 08/13/2025 by Death of Hypatia Inc.
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