Re: does capitalism like philosophy?

On Jul 2, 12:22 pm, Leon Hoeneveld <leonh...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Paul Grieg schreef:
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> > On Jul 2, 8:17 am, sirbl...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >> or does it only like economics? cuz under capitalism only thing
> >> philosophy departments seem to do is disappear.
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> > If there's a market for philosophy then capitalism can be said to like
> > it. If philosophy departments are disappearing (where's your evidence
> > for that?) then it is because the customers are not there.
> > Professional academic philosophers are competing in an equal
> > marketplace for students, and if they cannot attract as many students
> > as (say) media studies departments then the failure is theirs, and
> > they should be cast out to do philosophy on the dole (it might
> > actually do the some good!)
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> > Read Bryan Magee's "Confessions" and you can see why Oxbridge
> > universities philosophy departments failed to attract students in the
> > past few decades, and deserved to die. I for one (intensely motivated
> > to study *real* philosophy) decided to pursue physics & maths rather
> > than get involved with 'classics wonks' who wouldn't know a quark from
> > their backside and were only interested in trivial linguistic
> > flapdoodle.
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> TLF doesn't have anything to do with Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logicus
> Philosophicus, has it?

TLF was a later work of his (unpublished, later published by a
consortium of uninformed flapdoodle wor****ppers who have sworn an oath
not to read Kant, Schopenhauer or the ancients to keep the purity of
flapdoodle intact.) Magee is very good on the history of
Wittgensteinian flapdoodle (and his good bits - most of them in TLP,
where he 'got real' before he lost it in TLF).