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Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire. ― Gustav Mahler
Hicks, having presented an overview of the philosophies of Rousseau, Hegel, Marx, etc, is presented by O'Fallon a quick review of political events at the time, from WWI through the rise of Marxism. Hicks begins his response:
uh what's the relationship between yeah
large-scale politics and large-scale
philosophy yes right and of course we
can throw out some of the possibilities
one is to say
that the politics is going along and
philosophical movements are adapting
themselves or responding in the wake of
grand
political happenings so correct world
war one happens for political say
reasons
and then we find the philosophers after
trying to grapple with what does world
war one mean and what should we do about
it
now the other way to then say it would
be to say that the grand political
events though are the playing out of
intellectual movements
uh that have been developed prior to
that but those intellectual movements
say are driven by
earlier philosophical movements
now i like that there's a quotation from
lord bowling brook here that
that i think is
95 percent true of modern history and
the quotation is
history is philosophy teaching by
example
so that then is to say
the grand battles are philosophical
battles and the major historical events
are instantiations of the philosophies
and then you see
what that theoretical philosophy means
in practice
In short, is philosophy explaining politics or is politics acting out philosophies?
Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire. ― Gustav Mahler