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Philosophy For All

Anja Steinbauer on an ambitious new attempt to do philosophy in public.

“Philosophy For All? If you want ‘philosophy for all’, I am definitely the wrong person to talk to”, a famous phenomenologist recently snapped at me as soon as I had introduced myself. Fortunately, many experienced philosophers, a number of them very eminent, do not share his view and have lent great support to the project of “Philosophy For All”. However, I can well understand his scruples: Popularising philosophy is often seen as entailing corruption of philosophical content and over-simplification of complex issues. Philosophical debate must not become the playground for uninformed and opinionated chatter. When this happens, ‘philosophy’ becomes a mere caricature of itself.

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