Re: does capitalism like philosophy?

On Jul 2, 11:08 pm, knucmo <stevejoua...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On 2 Jul, 08:17, sirbl...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
>
> > or does it only like economics? cuz under capitalism only thing
> > philosophy departments seem to do is disappear.
>
> Philosophers do not seem to like capitalism, particularly Socrates,
> who considered gain of wealth for personal gain as not pursuit of the
> good, and Wittgenstein was a well-known 'Communist at Heart'.  Russell
> was a socialist liberal, Marx, well I don't need to tell you about his
> antipathy towards capitalism.  J. S. Mill stands out as being quite
> sympathetic to capitalism.

What about Schopenhauer? He invited soldiers into his house to shoot
at left wing revolutionaries. His dad was a very rich merchant and he
lived off his capital so he had the free time to do philosophy. So
although he did not do any money grubbing himself he certainly
appreciated capitalism.

I get the impression most non-Marxist philosophers (which includes all
the good ones!) look at capitalism in the same way they look at
democracy, i.e., the best of a bad bunch. Both democracy and
capitalism have the big advantage of sup****ting freedom. Capitalism's
s defined by "free markets". Of course, its excesses need to be
restrained, but what other kind of market might work?