"My philosophy" is an expression used by anyone
to express anything from a tactic in football to investments,
drug use, diet, politics, religions, and much more.
Misunderstood cultural exigencies, originating in the
civilization of literacy, and political opportunism maintain
philosophy as a required subject in universities, no matter what
is taught under its name, who teaches it, or how. Under communism
in East Europe and the Soviet Union, where free choice was out
of question, philosophy was obligatory because it was identified
with the dominating ideology. In most liberal societies,
philosophic abstraction is as much abhorred as lack of money.
Philosophic illiteracy is a development in line with the
deteriorating literacy manifested in our days. But what affects
this change is the new pragmatic framework, not the decline in
writing and reading proficiency.
The specialization of philosophic language, as well as the
integration of logico- mathematical formalism in philosophical
discourse, have not contributed to recuperating the prestige of
philosophy, or of the philosopher, for that matter. Neither did
it contribute to resolving topics specific to the discipline, in
particular, to human experience and conscience. In fact,
philosophy has disappeared in a number of philosophies practiced
today: analytic, continental, feminist, Afro-American, among
others. Each has constituted its own language and even
perspective, pursuing goals frequently rooted in the philosophy
of the civilization of literacy, or in its politics.
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