/sci/ - Science & Math

>>2992273
Well, the problem to me seems to be that the possibility of carrying the philosophy to its end isn't really there. "Anything Goes"-style absolute freedom is only something you can implement locally. A lot of the rest of your day is being a lumbering meat-sack that wants to eat and sleep and engage in other behavior constrained by its own existence, and the Wild Body must always be appeased.

Reality is the first and ultimate tyranny. It is the hateful dogmatism into which every one of us is born, and no matter how appealing the idea that you can just wish yourself to total freedom is, the lie is never far from being exposed. The only credible way out of it, so far, has been science. The possibility of understanding the rules of the game from the inside and maybe, someday, gaming the system.

That doesn't mean you can't always step back and wonder what it is exactly you think you are doing, and that's where philosophy can be useful. Still, Feyerabend's radical skepticism definitely forced the issue more than the more tame Popperian criticisms, but the cottage industry in postmodern provocateurs that came after him is just a lot of howling at the moon.