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January 19, 2006
Philosophy
Well, this is shaping up to be another late night, I am not sure why I do this to myself, but I guess some things just happen.
So, we are currently talking about Emotivism in Philosophy of Virtue. This theory, which olds that our morality and philosophy can be based on our emotions, was the precursor to moral relativism where it does not matter what you believe, unless of course it is that there is object truths. The question we are trying to answer is where did philosophy go wrong and lead to so many errors.
It is my personal belief that philosophy went wrong as soon as it started to view the ancients and medieval philosophers as quacks and create a "fresh beginning". As soon as you cut yourself off from the roots, everything goes to hell. This is all started in the Seventeenth to Eighteenth Century. If you have no grounding, or reject it, then you have nothing and you go off into outer space. So thus, we can define when human life begins and when it ends, we can define marriage in whatever way we please, the ends most certainly justify the means. The list could go on. It is no wonder why the Twentieth Century was so bloody when one simply looks at the philosophy that was circulating around for the past two hundred years. I have no doubt again that the philosophy of the day predisposed the Twentieth Century to be the bloodiest.
People laugh at philosophy, people think they can fool with it, but people seldom realize its importance. These questions we dabble with today, what is human life especially, are all questions Hitler, Stalin, and Mao dabbled with. The targets may have changed, but the question remains every so relevant.
There is hope, however. Many philosophers today are again rooting themselves in the Ancient and Medieval philosophies and applying them to today. They are finding the errors in the Modern Philosophers and looking to the past to correct them. This will be a very long process, but it is a process that is vital to human dignity and to the world.
Posted by cr3do1 at January 19, 2006 11:40 PM
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