{"id":2685,"date":"2008-02-29T12:33:15","date_gmt":"2008-02-29T19:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=2685"},"modified":"2008-02-29T12:33:15","modified_gmt":"2008-02-29T19:33:15","slug":"a-season-to-be-objective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2685\/a-season-to-be-objective\/","title":{"rendered":"A Season To Be Objective"},"content":{"rendered":"

Modernism, or post-modern<\/a>ism,\u00a0has little use for philosophy<\/a> . Pragmatism<\/a> is most people’s mind bent. Tough-minded pragmatism has a lot going for it, but when it denigrates philosophy it might be acting a little too tough. Isn’t philosopy that old-timey pursuit back\u00a0when intellectuals talked endlessly and\u00a0abstrusely about whether we really exist or just a bundle of impressions. What good did any of that talk do? It\u00a0doesn’t pay the rent, by God, and it doesn’t bring the bacon (tofu?) home.<\/p>\n

Others are more mystical about life,\u00a0therefore philosophy is an\u00a0illusory construct created by dead white European males to rule by reason and logic, or to confuse the issues with consistency — there is nothing consistently true for mystics, and all the intellectualizing in the world won’t reveal the mystical flow of The Great Unknown to the puny mind of reason — it’s intuitive,\u00a0soft and open\u00a0in spirit — felt by those connected to\u00a0the universal spirit.<\/p>\n

One looks at “what works” as the only marker for value, and the other goes by “what feels right”, what can be\u00a0intuited\u00a0as the marker of value. There are many variations of these two types of believers. And there are\u00a0many who are mostly social, who don’t think much at all about the larger issues of life; they want to belong and be accepted, and merely\u00a0being a part of a group is fine with them. They might take a stand if it’s to protect a friend or if they feel like their group is being threatened, but mostly they just want social comfort.<\/p>\n

The second definition of philosophy\u00a0from The Free Dictionary is — 2. Investigation of the nature, causes, or principles of reality, knowledge, or values, based on logical reasoning rather than empirical methods.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The first definition is — 1. Love and pursuit of wisdom by intellectual means and moral self-discipline<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Very few people live by, or hold ideas to the test of,\u00a0a set of principles that they’ve forged through a consistent philosophy. They usually go by antecdotal\u00a0evidence, snapshots of reality taken out of context, as their measure to make decisions. “I have a cousin who did this and got this result, and it seems to be Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Modernism, or post-modernism,\u00a0has little use for philosophy . Pragmatism is most people’s mind bent. Tough-minded pragmatism has a lot going for it, but when it denigrates philosophy it might be acting a little too tough. 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