Philosophy was for a long time the leading discipline and a cornerstone of the rationalistic ideals you lesswrong folks seem to follow—from Aristoteles to Kant to Wittgenstein. But then there is a growing number of philosophers who start questioning rationality itself or the attempt to create a “system” to explain everything. (From Nietzsche over Freud to Derrida or Foucault).
For people who seem so concerned to ,figure it all out’ based on rational thinking it baffles me, how little effort I see, to understand what fundamental flaws others have seen in the kind of thinking you base your entire project on. (Please correct me, if I have simply overseen this kind of earnest discussions or misunderstood the lesswrong way alltogether).
Does it not make you wonder, that a smart cookie like Wittgenstein changed his mind about having once and for all logically solved the questions of ‘what can be said sensibly’ with his Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus?
Philosophy was for a long time the leading discipline and a cornerstone of the rationalistic ideals you lesswrong folks seem to follow—from Aristoteles to Kant to Wittgenstein. But then there is a growing number of philosophers who start questioning rationality itself or the attempt to create a “system” to explain everything. (From Nietzsche over Freud to Derrida or Foucault).
For people who seem so concerned to ,figure it all out’ based on rational thinking it baffles me, how little effort I see, to understand what fundamental flaws others have seen in the kind of thinking you base your entire project on. (Please correct me, if I have simply overseen this kind of earnest discussions or misunderstood the lesswrong way alltogether).
Does it not make you wonder, that a smart cookie like Wittgenstein changed his mind about having once and for all logically solved the questions of ‘what can be said sensibly’ with his Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus?