Life is better if you're a philosophical liberal. Your existence is more fun, pleasurable, interesting, exhilarating, heroic, and magnificent, if you adhere to liberal values. These basically seem to be: the epistemology of reason and science, the metaphysics of material reality and objective truth, the ethics of individualism and self-interest, the politics of liberty and justice, the esthetics of beauty and heroism, and the spirituality of transcendence and triumph.
But this is very theoretical. Practical philosophy is also important – and very different from the above. To be happy, you also evidently have to obtain some sizable amount of solid education, utilitarian knowledge, personal cunning, political freedom, social popularity, economic wealth, and private tranquility. I can't help you much with those!
Integrate - 'practical' should be application of theory (for want of a better word), hence the order of subjects in OPAR.
ReplyDelete'Theory' should include recognition of reality, induction is the process.
Well, I appreciate that. But I still think there's a dichotomy here.
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