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Article: Philosophy is once again on life-support.
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- Catholic Insight
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- June 1, 2007
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Philosophy has had a roller coaster history. It has not, by any stretch of the imagination, enjoyed the smooth and steady trajectory known to the sciences. Whatever progress it enjoys is momentary and quickly offset by some form of regression that often threatens to be fateful.
Karl Marx famously declared that philosophy would die a natural death when the proletarian revolution produced the Communist State. In this utopian environment, "unproblematic man" would emerge who had no need for philosophical speculation. G.W.F. Hegel claimed that philosophy, as a discipline, came to an end with the reconciliation between individual freedom and communal authority in the ...