Jacob
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Sometimes you forget there are people who hate philosophy, or who discount what it has to say. Depending on the person, they will say you can find all the answers in biology, literature, business, warfare, or something else. Removing what would otherwise be a good compliment.
This is excellent.
Was reviewing my notes and noticed how Leibniz once held a favorable position to a mechanistic and materialist view of Nature. But when doing the physics himself, Leibniz found that the extension of mass alone was inadequate. and realized there was something to be found in Aristotle’s actualization of natural bodies, contrary to the prevailing critiques around him at the time.
Professor Nietzsche would not do well in today’s academy (from: Nietzsche - The Man and His Philosophy by R.J. Hollingdale):
Physics is not in that bad of a situation, but this is a very good point regarding what modern physics has become with all its data and modelling. It's why there is more value to be found in the relevant philosophic work from the last 150 years, and the Greeks.
Here’s a paper arguing that there is no progress in philosophy. The author claims that if Aristotle visited a modern university, he would be amazed by modern physics but feel at home in the philosophy classes, since the debates haven’t fundamentally changed. What do you think?
Musonius always regarded the farmer as the embodiment of the stoic, which is quite a contrast to what its followers and critics say of it today.
something i love about engineering/physics/CS culture is that almost every intellectual resource is available for free. there's a real presumption of non-gatekeeping that is, in my experience, not present in other fields
