A note on R. S. Peters Bob Borsley ” The ideological character of academic philosophy is much clearer in the work of some philosophers than others. One philosopher in whose writing it is particularly clear is R S Peters. In his ‘Social Principles and the Democratic State’ (written with S I Benn) , and ‘Ethics […]
Examinations and Academic Illiteracy; Philosophy and the World
Now it does seem to me that Norman does trade on this “rationalist” view in his discussion of Tolstoy. For he does say “Andrew’s ‘discovery’ is in each case”‘the acquisition of an enlarged and clearer view of human nature and of man’s relation to the world” (p.9) “The ‘way of seeing the world’ (the “religious […]
Reports from Kent, London, Oxford
REPORTS HEm ~!……Discussion Weekend at Universi t..L..£.f2 ent , ,?2::.?Z__ .:!..~e first, insofar as its ‘problems’ arc emplr ~~l’: _ l,rohlems (knowledge of the external world, causality, other minJ~, personal identity, etc.), and secondly, insofar as it retain the same ideological orientation as classical empiricism. Epistemology is by its very nature prescriptive; it is for […]