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Question of the Month

What Is The Present Nature, And The Future, Of Philosophy?

The following answers to this question of philosophy each win a random book.

Philosophy, it seems, currently has three main avenues, which, though clogged, it tries to flow through. One is academic philosophy, which is, one gathers, largely mired in esoteric analysis or self-referential in-house debates. Another might collectively be called ‘street philosophy’. It wants to be some modern version of ancient Greek marketplace philosophy, but the correspondence doesn’t stick. The third realm is ‘hidden philosophy’, held non-publicly by individuals whose intellect and values funnel out into practice and postures seen and unseen, burbling out in things like voting, how a person feels he or she has been educated, and what the zeitgeist in the public square is like.

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