Category: Sadler’s Aphorisms

Philosophy in Collapse

In contemporary Western culture philosophy is in a state of collapse. This does not mean that philosophy has altogether died and is incapable of resuscitation. If that were so, if

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Campaign Against Philosophy

The campaign against the ‘old’ conception of philosophy began in earnest four hundred years ago. At that time Francis Bacon made a radical proposal for altering the meaning of ‘philosophy’.

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Age of Faith and Age of Reason

Standard accounts of the history of philosophy report that in the seventeenth century a transition was made from the ‘age of faith’ to the ‘age of reason’. Undoubtedly this was

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