PHILOSOPHY IS NOT DEAD A Vision of the Discipline Future edition by Steven Yates Politics Social Sciences eBooks
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Is philosophy dead? Stephen Hawking has said so, and Neil deGrasse Tyson has warned students away from it. This book responds by explaining why philosophy is relevant in contemporary American society. It may not be dead, but it is troubled by its invisibility and an appearance of irrelevance, at least some of this its own making. The author offers an explanation of how modern philosophy found itself marginalized within academic cubicles and offers a thesis on what kind of job philosophy might do in a contemporary society that is intellectually, morally and spiritually adrift. That job identify, clarify, and critically evaluate prevailing worldviews as they are embodied in institutions and cultural practices, or make themselves manifest in contemporary cultural events.
PHILOSOPHY IS NOT DEAD A Vision of the Discipline Future edition by Steven Yates Politics Social Sciences eBooks
Beginning with a quote from Stephen Hawking in his book,The Grand Design, "Philosophy is dead.", Dr. Yates, with his usual depth of scholarship
and interest, takes the reader through the various levels of thought and advancement
of society that have brought us to our present Materialistic plight. In spite of the fact
that Philosophy is often relegated to adjunct status in collages, he makes a strong case
for a more dynamic place for the philosopher in helping to cure the many problems
we are not presently dealing with. A very important look at our culture and its needs.
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PHILOSOPHY IS NOT DEAD A Vision of the Discipline Future edition by Steven Yates Politics Social Sciences eBooks Reviews
Steven Yates is always an excellent read and an excellent writer, even when he is venting his frustrations. He clearly defines the issues and problems (perceived or real) in philosophy and attempts to put them in proper perspective. Markets have determined that philosophy is no longer very valuable, as Dr. Yates shows. That fact does not mean that philosophy itself is irrelevant, only that people are not demanding it. The same may also be said chastity, hell, traditional housewifery, familial care for the elderly, respect for parents, traditional politeness or formalities and many other issues, graces or attitudes of a foregone era. Philosophy has lost market demand because the principal progenitors and protagonists are producing radical feminism and other things mentioned by Dr. Yates that seem unimportant to people. Moreover, philosophy is not making enough strides to help science as it once did. After all, even chemists and physicists have Ph.D.s, "doctors of philosophy," hearkening back to the bygone era which lauded logic and the scientific method as the root of all scientific inquiry (and shouldn't it still be today?). Why are philosophers so weak today that they are not calling materialism to the carpet more often or debunking pseudo-science such as "climate change" more often? Where are the philosophers when we need them to hold ideologues' feet to the fire or to improve logic and argumentation, and to reject the worship of mathematical tools in the sciences? They have gone from being the princes to the toads of the intellectual world, mired in ridiculous "isms" and neglecting their most basic work. If philosophy is not dead, then let it step up to the challenges of the modern world. The means to fix the problem is within their grasp if they choose to step up to the plate. Maybe Dr. Yate's book will help spur along the process a little bit and get some heavy hitters out of the dugout that will be more about playing the game instead of messing around with dusting off the plate, oiling the gloves and putting pine tar on the bats. Do something useful that puts up runs (points)! Get rid of the poorer players imposed by affirmative action and give tenure track jobs to real philosophers like Dr. Yates instead!
The biggest problem I had with this book is that it is only available on , and I like to scribble my thoughts in a book as I go along.
But that small inconvenience aside, this is certainly a book worth reading.
The picture it paints of modern society, diseased with mindless materialism and suffocating political correctness, while sacrificing freedom for indentured slavery to corporate tyranny, is reminiscent of Albert Schweitzer’s The Decay and the Restoration of Civilization (available through as The Philosophy of Civilization). Of course, Yates does not refer to Schweitzer, because the philosophical ‘establishment’ determined some time ago that Schweitzer was not one of them – perhaps because he blamed “the suicide of civilization” on “philosophy’s renunciation of her duty.”
It is sobering to see that the deficiencies of civilization and philosophy (or philosophers) identified by Schweitzer almost a century ago are much the same deficiencies identified by Yates in 2014.
It is not surprising then that Yates admits that, from the outside at least, philosophy “may look dead – on life support, perhaps.” For some time now, my own view has been that philosophy is in danger of becoming nothing more than an ‘extravagant academic indulgence’ – and from what Yates says about academic philosophy, for those ‘blessed’ with tenure to this exclusive club, philosophy is certainly not dead – the party is in full swing; even though no one is really interested in what they have to say.
This book does not purport to be a definitive work, but rather sets out some preliminary issues that Yates believes need to be addressed if philosophy is to play any significant part in determining what ‘civilization’ may look like in the future. Yates devotes the last three sections of the book to giving some of his preliminary thoughts on the issue.
But for me, it is this statement from the section Materialism or Moral Agency? that holds the key “Morality absent an authority transcending culture, reason, the quest for happiness (and to avoid unhappiness), commercial gain, etc ., cannot hold.”
Such a morality can only have freedom as its defining principle. And that happens to be the theme of my latest book – A ‘Final Theory’ of God – which is my modest attempt to awaken the human spirit to its true moral purpose, and its true moral destiny.
Yates sees philosophers as being “most qualified to serve” the cause of the revival of civilization, but insists that they would need to assume a more prominent place in the public conversation in order to carry out the task. He does acknowledge, however, that the current state of academic philosophy is not particularly well-equipped to assume that role, and that non-academic, or specifically non-tenured philosophers, simply don’t have the funds to indulge in such a luxury.
For me, it matters not who initiates a fundamental reappraisal of the way we live, only that it happens. But I am inclined to think Schweitzer was right “Civilization can only revive when there shall come into being in a number of individuals a new tone of mind independent of the one prevalent among the crowd and in opposition to it, … It is only an ethical movement which can rescue us from the slough of barbarism, and the ethical comes into existence only in individuals.”
I look forward to seeing what Yates concludes philosophers can do, and how, in what, no doubt, will be a more definitive exposition of the preliminary issues he has identified in Philosophy Is Not Dead.
Beginning with a quote from Stephen Hawking in his book,
The Grand Design, "Philosophy is dead.", Dr. Yates, with his usual depth of scholarship
and interest, takes the reader through the various levels of thought and advancement
of society that have brought us to our present Materialistic plight. In spite of the fact
that Philosophy is often relegated to adjunct status in collages, he makes a strong case
for a more dynamic place for the philosopher in helping to cure the many problems
we are not presently dealing with. A very important look at our culture and its needs.
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