Re: does capitalism like philosophy?

On 3 jul, 12:16, Amanda Reid <scrawlm...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On Jul 2, 6:39 pm, Paul Heslop <paul.hes...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > calvin wrote:
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> > > On Jul 2, 6:08 pm, knucmo <stevejoua...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > > 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.
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> > > I don't think you're right about Socrates.
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> > I don't think any of this is right when it comes to poetry, or movies.
> > --
> > Paul  (We won't die of devotion)
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> Hey, Paul!  Long time, no C (my piano's broken).

pianos are armed robbery.

why should the humanities be more self-critical than the sciences?
course physics has more jargon, cuz its so damn useful to the boss it
gets more funds and so the hermeneutic circle circles. losing your
virginity is physics and look what they make it out to be at uni.

just cuz the dollar says so?

the gerontocracy?

you imagine universities filled with 65+ agegroup and that agility of
mind? already exists, las vegas.

only matter here is the baudelairesque conzept of should youngsters be
allowed to be useless or should they become doctors and electricians.

argh, spinoza look what the capitalists have done, they've all wet
their pijamas and become goethe twat boys

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> Movies are all too often comic books, though they're spoZe to be
> dramatic poetry.
>   Poetry all too often isn't even comic books, though it's spoZe to be
> philosophy.
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> But I still see no reason to eliminate poultry over a few bad eggs.