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What is the use of philosophers? : Comments

By Pablo Jiménez Lobeira, published 7/10/2011

Philosophers perform the division of labour least practised and most needed today.

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To confuse society with the state, as the author has done, is precisely to practise the kind of facile smoke-and-mirrors shysterism that we should expect of a class of professional high priests.

To earn his income as a lover of wisdom, the author must first eliminate the possibility that he is not advocating what is anti-social; and hence must refute the arguments of Murray Rothbard in "Anatomy of the State"
http://mises.org/resources.aspx?Id=c02cef89-a2fb-4d55-afb1-2d97e9e78d1c
Posted by Peter Hume, Friday, 7 October 2011 6:43:34 PM
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This guy is kidding right?

NO australian child will be safe until all ANTI christian, ANTI social, loony left, humanities academics are in a labour camp.

The only philosophy we need is PROTESTANT christianity.
Posted by Formersnag, Saturday, 8 October 2011 3:03:47 PM
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I'm wondering how long these people could survive if philosophy was deemed a field in which they'd have to find people to pay for what the philosophers have to sell. It's easy for them to live off our taxes which some irresponsible bureaucrats hand over to them with impunity for misappropriation.
Posted by individual, Saturday, 8 October 2011 5:11:21 PM
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Jesus made all others seem like fakes in His day. Nothing has changed except a few are smart enough to take word of the wisest to ever live, die and live again.
Posted by runner, Saturday, 8 October 2011 5:19:12 PM
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I wasn't sure for a while there whether the author was attacking or defending philosophers.

I think philosophy should be taught in school from grade one on; philosophers then wouldn't be such a rare breed and we could justifiably cut the funding, so that the only philosophers, quite properly, were the ones with a vocation.
But the fact is that the denizens of modern culture are appallingly ignorant about the important questions, and yet amazingly smug about their workmanlike verities, naively seeing their "usefulness" and "contributions" not only as irreproachable, but as activities they may justifiably take pride in and kudos from--though they do it for the money and the goodies really; it's just nice to boast the good old work ethic. It's like patriotism; you don't get it but it gives you that nice fuzzy feeling when you wrap yourself in the flag and we all have a good crocodile-cry together.
And then philosophers, some of them, go and spoil the party and put you in your place! tut tut.
For the record, Philosophy is not that difficult, and anyone could learn medicine more or less. Most of us could be performing complex surgery within a week with the right teacher and a few volunteers. As for economics, one could teach chimps to be as prescient as those guys! Though I doubt the chimps could get it so wrong.
Philosophy asks difficult, uncomfortable and inconvenient questions, and so long as laypeople believe in their childish alternatives, and think their "contributions" really are unimpeachable goods, they need them! Just as wise monarchs of yore acknowledged they needed their court jesters.
Posted by Squeers, Saturday, 8 October 2011 6:03:06 PM
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*NO australian child will be safe until all ANTI christian, ANTI social, loony left, humanities academics are in a labour camp.
The only philosophy we need is PROTESTANT christianity.*

Ah Formesnag, its good to know that you protestant christians
have no qualms about throwing people into labour camps. The
Catholic Church used to burn heretics, at least you haven't
sunk that far yet.

Your true nature is clearly revealed.
Posted by Yabby, Saturday, 8 October 2011 6:46:39 PM
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