we have philosophy which is far more complicated
then in the time of Plato or Descartes or even Kant…
and why? because we live in far more complicated times…
with a different set of questions, a different set of needs and a different
set of indoctrinations that we grew up with…….
we are children of the industrial revolution and the children
of Auschwitz and the children of Hiroshima…and we
have our indoctrinations learned from these events……
regardless if we remember these events or if they impact
our daily lives………. every single event in your life is still
there regardless if you remember it or not… it still impacts
your life…….as does the impact of events like Auschwitz or
Hiroshima still impacts our culture or our society or our
personal self even if we didn’t feel its impact directly…
we are connected… and events from very far away can still
impact our lives even if we don’t see it or hear it or feel it…
it is still there…for we exist in the world, of the world,
for the world and anything that happens in the world impacts us……
you don’t live in isolation of events, in isolation of the world…
we exists in the world and that means we are of the world…
if it change the world, it exists within you… and everything changes
the world…….even the smallest of actions……
thus the reason for the complication of philosophy…
it must reflect the world and the world changes,
repeatedly and often quickly…….
with those oft changes and the speed of changes, how
can we create a philosophy of history, a philosophy of
political science, a philosophy of education, when the world
we live in changes so rapidly?
philosophy to become successful, must reflect the
world at large……. we must reflect the rapidly changing
world with philosophy that is written in ever changing formats
and ever changing idea’s… to keep up with the ever changing
world… in other words… philosophy isn’t about the
the permanent or the unchanging aspects of the universe/reality…
because the universe/reality is always changing…
philosophy must no longer say, thou must live like this…
no, philosophy says, today we live like this and tomorrow,
maybe, no, tomorrow will be different…
philosophy must be written in the air and no longer
in stone……….
a new philosophy is needed… as Nietzsche says,
philosophy must be able to dance……….
and you cannot dance if written in stone…
this is why philosophy has been deemed to be a “failure”…
it hasn’t kept us with the everchanging reality of the universe…
and why religion is deemed to be a “failure”
whereas science has kept up and is far more respected
and understood…it has kept paced with the ever changing
universe and reality…
so what is philosophy? it is a method to discover
what are the rules/laws of the universe…
a method, not a absolute point of view, but a method like
logic and science and math… used to discover our current reality…
and once it is understood that philosophy is a method, not a goal or
a destination, then philosophy will take its place once more as
the queen of the sciences… because philosophy is to better understand
the values we live by and values as such, change sometimes quite
quickly…… so philosophy is a method of understanding values
and the values we either have or we need to have… philosophy
can be used to understand the values of yesterday or today or tomorrow…
what value is more important, love or hate?
and philosophy can help us to understand that the values we
have today which is the values of capitalism, of greed and envy
and lust… and we must move on from these current values of today
and move to the values of tomorrow which is the values of love
and hope and charity… we use philosophy as a measure of values
and what values we should hold and why…….
Kropotkin