Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away
Philosophy hasn’t stopped being relevant, if anything, it’s even more relevant today in a hyper-globalized world. What’s changed is that academics have become over-specialized, to the point where many outright deny the usefulness of entire academic fields. Scientists like Einstein or Humboldt were well versed in philosophy and religion, whereas today the “public intellectuals” often say philosophy is outdated or useless, as if 21st-century American values were the best, final ones, never to be questioned again.<p>One would think that after Fukuyama’s end of history nonsense, we’d have learned this lesson, but apparently not.