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Thanks Byron! You made me run down to my book stack for the title of a book on philosophy of science I read but it wasn't there--though I did find my
Dictionary of Philosophy. I have read philosophy of mathematics, science and, probably, some others of this type that I can't recall at the moment.
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I have heard and read--years ago--some Chomsky and I read
this about Singer after reading your post.
You should have--I hope--infered my penchant for what you wrote as, "philosophy of philosophy", in
my post above, marked '10 Jul 2015, 06:11'.
I am
very interested in political philosophy and I believe
that is where and what all the "fighting" is about.
What do I mean?
I mean the fighting amongst the dominant Nations in the past several Centuries--the European or "Western" societies. What is wrong--if you pardon the word--with Peter Singer's focus is that it is akin to addressing the bad rash you have on various parts of your body while the cause is something in your blood: You might apply some medical lotion but the rash breaks-out elsewhere and the underlying cause becomes resistant to the medicine.
What is required of this perspective is a
proper knowledge of history, particulary from 19th Century to present-day. The two massive, awful upheavals known as the first and second "world wars" and the subsequent, resultant "cold war" period must be assessed and understood in order to evaluate the current state of the world. The role of scientific discovery can not be ignored in any assessment.
One of Nietzsche's themes--he addressed
many subjects--was the condition of European society. He wrote while the great
ideological struggles were forming, simmering and festering. This is very important if one is to understand what he attempted to
warn us about. It is his diagnosis and description of the ills of the state of Western society--intellectual, spiritual, philosophical--and the direction in which it was moving which I found valuable for an analysis of the current state of the world. (There are other benefits I found to reading his works, but will discuss those later: I have acquired valuable insight.)
You should infer that measuring the "maleness" of any of this does not take one very far--unless, of course, you're examining the plight of women and Christians under Sharia Law in many parts of the world as I type these words.
I think, Byron, that you were on the right bus when you chose Philosophy, but you need to determine whether you've strayed onto some back-road or cul-de-sac.
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I've begun, here, in this post, some foundation to how I've arrived at a
position, or stance, on these serious subjects.
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Removed superfluous reference to another post and corrected my reference to "my post above".