Is anti-philosophy self-defeating?
Added 2024-09-23 13:20:46 +0000 UTC
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I agree with you it does seem that anti philosophy is self defeating I love philosophy so I am happy with that. People like wittgenstein I hate bro they are anti philosophy they hate philosophy.
Dia Mills
2024-09-24 15:36:44 +0000 UTCThe only kind of Anti Philosophy which makes sense to me would be a kind of Pan-Rhetoricism. The idea that there is no distincition between a rhetorically compelling argument vs a genuinely valid/sound one. I think it is rhetoric all the way down. After thinking about the problem of induction, skepticism, meta skepticism, the fact that there a bunch of alternative logics etc. my conclusion is that there is no justification for believing anything or finding an argument valid. There is just rhetorical force. Everything is ultimately judged on vibes. When Plato distinguished philosophy from sophism by claiming philosophy was concerned with Truth not just rhetorical tricks, that was itself just a rhetorical trick. Philosophy is just a genre of rhetoric. I think everything is ultimately an aesthetic judgement. There is no such thing as what is reasonable, just stuff we intuitively vibe to. Now this is itself a philosophical position. But the Pan Rhetoricist can simply bite the bullet and say "yeah, everything I just said was rhetorical, and you will either vibe with it or not"
Julio Hernandez
2024-09-23 17:28:44 +0000 UTC
