Short Shrift

by Peter Saint-Andre

2023-12-19

Riffing on a post by Arnold Kling, who in turn was riffing on Marc Andreessen, I've been pondering the topics that various schools of thought tend to ignore. Kling was talking about politics: conservatives don't like to discuss beneficial social changes they once opposed, progressives don't like to consider anything but oppression as a cause of disparate outcomes, etc. However, we can apply the same line of thinking to philosophies. Here are a few possibilities:

And so on. It'd be a worthwhile exercise to think this through more fully.

(Cross-posted at philosopher.coach.)

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