On the Historical Role of Philosophy

The greatest philosophers of tomorrow will be the ones grappling with AI, according to R.G. Collingwood:

In part, the problems of philosophy are unchanging; in part they vary from age to age, according to the special characteristics of human life and thought at the time; and in the best philosophers of every age these two parts are so interwoven that the permanent problems appear sub specie saeculi, and the special problems of the age sub specie aeternitatis. Whenever human thought has been dominated by some special interest, the most fruitful philosophy of the age has reﬂected that domination; not passively, by mere submission to its inﬂuence, but actively, by making a special attempt to understand it and placing it in the focus of philosophical inquiry.

Date

February 6, 2024

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