Why the epistemological foundations of both religion and skepticism lead to the same political conclusions (not to mention what the hell “epistemological” means). The roots of the liberal and conservative ideologies, and why they’re both right (and both wrong). What you will learn from The History of Philosophy: I would know-I got my BA in philosophy (sorry, dad). You’ll learn more from my glossary than you would from a four-year philosophy degree. The result is this comprehensive yet simplified resource on philosophy. I’ve compiled more than 100 pages of notes from countless books and lectures. It presents philosophy as a study of integrated concepts based in reality-no different than chemistry, and just as practical. It conceptualizes and identifies philosophers and their ideas, and how those ideas have built upon each other to create the world you live in.

The History of Philosophy reverses this trend. The philosophy you learned in college is the remaining complaints of a field that has emasculated itself. We’re at the tail end of a 350-year phase of deterioration in philosophy. Just because the field was usurped by superstition didn’t make it useless.

Philosophy is pointless today like chemistry was pointless during the age of alchemy. The common view of philosophy is it’s pointless intellectualism, and the only practical question a philosopher will ever learn is, “would you like fries with that?”īut that’s only the present state of philosophy. Restoring a field rebuilding a civilization.

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