Step Number One

Stephen Toulmin’s proposal of a return to a modest Renaissance humanism sounds wonderful (as a fresh start, so to speak, and only a start) compared to dogmatic ideology-fetishizing modernism on the one hand, or the arguably even  worse alternative of polysyllabic post-modernist nihilism on the other. But when the people can’t even see the reality before their eyes – of a global corporate oligarchy consolidating its powers in a move to fascism – how on earth can we hope to begin talking about philosophy?! First we have to open our eyes. That is step number one.

JTR

March 29, 2020