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How Philosophers Could Save the World
Paperback
ISBN13: 9780994855732
Publisher: Lightning Source Inc
Published: Mar 19 2016
Pages: 116
Weight: 0.28
Height: 0.24 Width: 5.25 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
The alternative to realism sketched in this book proposes a way of thinking in which 'things' are replaced with 'events'. Objects and entities are not inert things lurching from moment to moment. They are the events human beings deem important enough or, like hurricanes, lively enough, to warrant naming for future reference.
I know these sketches will not convince anyone that the world is not an actual place full of actual things, but I think I can persuade readers to take an alternative account for a test drive.
In this rendition, events have pride of place. Commonsense notions of things and entities are figures of speech and computational aids like Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) on personal computers.
If the world is an event, it is as young now as it ever was. You and I share in this vivaciousness. We emerge out of, then subside into, what is going on.
You and I also emerge in one another's awareness, and then talk the world and a bit of stuff going on into one another's view.
This 'understanding reboot' could have secular benefits. Political and economic problems could be seen as rising from below rather than trickling down from Hitlers, Kim Jong-uns and Donald Trumps.
People would see themselves as conduits through which profits siphon from the bottom to the top and mischief flows the other way.
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