aldalire@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · 2 years agoThe only valid criticism of Marx as a philosopher must be that he was too involved in human affairslemmy.dbzer0.comimagemessage-square22fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1imageThe only valid criticism of Marx as a philosopher must be that he was too involved in human affairslemmy.dbzer0.comaldalire@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · 2 years agomessage-square22fedilink
minus-squareAssortedBiscuits [they/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 years agoThe only non-joke answer I could think of is aesthetics. So, philosophers should be nothing more than glorified art critics.
minus-squareTraschcanOfIdeology [they/them, comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 years agoModern aesthetics are concerned with human experience and material realities,especially when it comes to taste and smell aesthetics.
minus-squareAlaskaball [comrade/them, any]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 years agoModern western philosophy is glorified art critics but with tenure
minus-squareAssortedBiscuits [they/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 years agoApparently, this is Bertrand Russell, so it makes a lot more sense. I guess philosophers are supposed to only concern themselves with formal logic and writing three volume works to prove 1+1=2. That and critiquing movies you haven’t seen like Zizek.
minus-squareDamarcusArt@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 years ago That and critiquing movies you haven’t seen like Zizek. Does that mean youtubers are the modern day philosophers? 🤔
The only non-joke answer I could think of is aesthetics. So, philosophers should be nothing more than glorified art critics.
Modern aesthetics are concerned with human experience and material realities,especially when it comes to taste and smell aesthetics.
Modern western philosophy is glorified art critics but with tenure
Apparently, this is Bertrand Russell, so it makes a lot more sense. I guess philosophers are supposed to only concern themselves with formal logic and writing three volume works to prove 1+1=2. That and critiquing movies you haven’t seen like Zizek.
Does that mean youtubers are the modern day philosophers? 🤔