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Tag Archives: Harry Frankfurt
E-Philosophy: A Brief Manifesto
The word philosophy comes to us from two Greek words meaning the love of wisdom. What is wisdom? Knowledge, both theoretical and practical, used in ways both defining and helping to bring about what is good and beneficial in life … Continue reading
Posted in Philosophy, Uncategorized
Tagged analysts, analytic philosophy, Babylon 5, Brian Eno, Delenn, E-Philosophy, E.F. Schumacher, Ervin Laszlo, Feyerabend, George Orwell, Harry Frankfurt, Helena Norberg-Hodge, Jurassic Park, Kierkegaard, Leopold Kohr, Local Futures, Localism, Marcus Aurelius, Morpheus, Nikola Tesla, On Bullshit, Philosophy, political economy, positivism, Remnant, Stoics, The Matrix, Thomas S. Kuhn, Wittgenstein
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How Higher Education in the U.S. Has Slowly Self-Destructed
There can be little doubt that at one time, the U.S. had the best higher education system in the world — rivaled only by, perhaps, by institutions in Great Britain such as Oxford and Cambridge. It still lives on that … Continue reading
Posted in Higher Education Generally, Where Is Philosophy Going?
Tagged Adjunct, Brian Leiter, free market, Harry Frankfurt, Herbert Marcuse, higher education decline, Lost Generation, Marcusans, MOOCs, National Adjunct Walkout Day, Neoliberalism, Philosophy, political correctness, Powell Memorandum, student loan debt crisis
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Scholarship “In the Doldrums” as Elderly Generation Dies Out and Is Not Replaced
Our point of departure for this week’s article will be a remark by philosopher Harry Frankfurt, best known as having authored the colorful little tract On Bullshit (2005) which, significantly, may be the only work by a professional philosopher to … Continue reading
Lost Generation Philosopher 