What Does ‘Philosophy’ Mean?
It may be objected that philosophy cannot possibly have been rejected when there are today so many academic philosophers, so many intellectuals who are called philosophers, and so many books
It may be objected that philosophy cannot possibly have been rejected when there are today so many academic philosophers, so many intellectuals who are called philosophers, and so many books
It is at first sight a paradox but in reality it is the basis of the whole system, the ‘key’ and the ‘secret’: on the one hand, according to postmodernism,
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
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’.
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