A lot of what passes for philosophy today is professionalized stagnation. On one end, you have obscurantism, censorship-by-norms, and endless semantic games, all lubricated by obvious institutional conflicts of interest. On another, you have pop-sophists flattening Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Marcus Aurelius, and Confucius into marketable quote collages that mix banalities, self-help, and pseudoscience.Add to that a steady stream of capitalist apologetics that treats greed as rationality and power as inevitability, alongside academic subcultures obsessed with declaring everything they dislike a "social construct," often in service of justifying their own relevance. Bioethics in particular feels less like moral inquiry and more like post hoc rationalization.What is conspicuously rare are philosophy classes that treat fundamental disagreements as live questions. Students are seldom encouraged to weigh the strengths and weaknesses of positions like Platonism versus Nominalism and actually decide which they believe is true. Philosophy is curated, not contested.
just drop out and find something better
>>18283545Well yeah, people decide univocity is hard so they move onto easy shit that their professor likes. Duh.
The peak of philosophy was probably the 90s and 00s. Conservatism was repressive, avoiding certain subjects and possessing a tendency to embellish and romanticize history and philosophy according to their tastes rather than reality, but this was way back in the 1950s. There was then the conflict between conservatism and boomer hippies in the 1960s and 1970s dying down in the 80s, and thereafter a more chill attitude. People could discuss controversial subjects that would be offensive to conservatives in the 1950s, yet the current aura of paranoia and hysteria was still in its embryonic stages, with the "science wars" being just a meme people laughed at.
>>18283545When I was a philosophy major I took a bunch of formal logic classes and eventually transferred to the compsci department.
