{"id":1564,"date":"2020-09-22T22:48:53","date_gmt":"2020-09-22T22:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/?p=1564"},"modified":"2020-09-30T23:03:34","modified_gmt":"2020-09-30T23:03:34","slug":"the-core-of-philosophy-is-escaping-from-bullshit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/2020\/09\/22\/the-core-of-philosophy-is-escaping-from-bullshit\/","title":{"rendered":"The core of philosophy is escaping from bullshit."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Many years ago, I wrote a review of a book on the history of philosophy in Ukraine: “Comments on Chyzhevs’kyi’s Historiography of Philosophy in Ukraine”<\/a> (1982). In it I claimed that philosophy is a critical examination of a Weltanschauung<\/a>. So, what is a Weltanschuung? And what is criticism?
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A Weltanschuung is the sum of a person’s beliefs about the make-up of the universe, his beliefs about the social order, his views on what is credible, and his views on values. In short — using the technical jargon of philosophy — his views on metaphysics and ontology, his views on epistemology, his axiology, and his logic or way of reasoning. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\nAll philosophers must be interested in doing this, if philosophy is indeed a critical examination of Weltanschauungs. Let us use W as an abbreviation for a Weltanschauung. And to connect with another related notion, let us equate a Weltanschauung with a Possible World.\n

\nNow, there are many Ws. How so? Well, religions and myths form a part of a W, and if we simply dwell on the number of religions and myths, that alone is enough to give us a few hundred Ws.\n

\nC. D. Broad divided philosophy into two parts: Critical and Speculative Philosophy.<\/a> Using Broad’s classification of philosophy, Critical Philosophy is concerned with clarification and the rejection of errors. The fundamental errors are those of contradiction and incompatibility. I sum up these tasks by the phrase “escaping from bullshit.” \n

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Can one escape from bullshit?<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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