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Originally Posted by Peter Debelak
An insightful thought - a philosophy constructed around a desired end (though the verdict is still out on Keynes...but please don't take the bait on that...  ).
This is the opposite of what philosophy (and spirituality) should be. If you start with the premise that you already know the truth, well, then 1) you have a certain crazy hubris and 2) everything starts looking like supporting evidence regardless of whether it actually is. You end up with some screwy hermeneutics... |
Yeah, usually you end up with what would be a great philosophy... except for the big, fat, stinking elephant in the living room.
- Nee... with no provision for identifying local leadership, or limiting their power. (A strange thing. First you can't really know if they are the true leadership. But then, once you acknowledge them, you can't get rid of them.)
- Rand... with, among other things, her philosophy's inability to even explain why parents should care for their children.
- Marx... with communism's complete inability to manage an economy or keep pace with capitalism.
- Keynes... with $55 trillion and growing of global government debt. (Oops, I took the bait. )