Post by xxxxxxxxx on Apr 8, 2019 15:58:16 GMT
Philosophy fundamentally comes down to a question over the nature of measurement (hence quantitative and qualitative values at the practical ethical level) and as such what I argue strictly addresses either directly or by proxy the nature of postmodern philosophy as strictly a value system premised on the continual progression of "language" which effectively "mirrors" the progressive nature of facts in science.
In trying to "fit in" with the public materialistic mindset philosophy mimicked the nature of the "wheel of science" which continually dissolves facts into further "facts" with any prior "facts" effectively being negated by the new ones. Hence most scientific facts are strictly just spontaneously localization of certain relations we use to guide how we percieve the world; hence ourselves.
The problem occurs that this "progression" causes a continual divergence within the group and individual perspectives, evidenced in not just the identity crisis of the modern person but group incoherence and the generation gap.
The difference is that they applied this to "language"...hence the mass confusion as the symbolic nature which grounds consciousness, through language, is effectively dispersed in such a manner where any group awareness is limited to a selected few. Symbolism takes on a secretive nature inevitably leading to a percieved elite class, that of the expert, which gives the illusion of "specialization". This "specialization" is inherently false in its nature because it requires basic assumptions which are not proven.
Take any set of self-evident truths, connect them, and by default not only can anyone be an "expert" but the nature of self-evidence as having a subjective nature leads to everyone effectively being an expert, thus giving a false sense of individual "pride" but an illusion of distinction which in itself is just assumed.
