An “Unphilosophical Spirit”: Root Causes of American Intellectual Decline
Unphilosophical spirit Prof. Louis Rene Beres “The enemy is the unphilosophical spirit which knows nothing and wants to know nothing of truth.“- Karl Jaspers, Reason and Anti-Reason in our Time (1971) For the most part, Americans loath mind-challenging excursions into philosophy. At times, certain other forms of intellectual activity are judged more-or-less tolerable, but only to the […]
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