/lit/ - Literature

>>16393637
This, nobody believes in Plato or Aristotle in the academy anymore.

>>16393571
If you wrecked the system of analytical philosophy then you would have something relevant, but analytical philosophy and post-modernism share the same basic concept of truth, namely that it doesn't exist. Therefore they cannot be refuted since they postulate nothing. What that means in short, is that philosophy is dead, at least as a means to acquire systemic truth, and even more dead than a Norwegian Blue Parrot at that.

I mean sure, we will always have Stoics and Christians and Daoists and Buddhists and Dervishes, but they are not systems of systemic truth, but rather of personal truth, at least in the context of academic philosophy. I'm sure political philosophy will also have a long half-life as well. But this appraisal means that philosophy is very dead indeed. The whole idea of reason as driving a process that can tell you things about the world as such is finished.