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Well done!

Put in these terms, a system dies when the questions it seeks to answer are no longer asked; and only where the questions are the same can there be a genuine clash of answers." #philsky #philosophy

To be sure, the new questions which appear in this process can be regarded, for the most part, as revisions or reformulations of earlier issues; however, the fact of revision and reformulation is of the essence of the matter, making new questions out of old.

Put from a somewhat different point of view, the historical development of philosophy is more truly conceived as the periodic formulation of new questions, than as a series of attempted answers to an enduring body of problems.

Out of curiosity: is there a writer with whom you’ve had that sort of push-and-pull reading experience? I think about it a lot these day as an epistemic hot-and-cold bath and how it relates to the feeling of achievement in study in the context of teaching and helping students engage with texts.

Reminds me much of reading Hegel and also some extremely stiff mid-century analytic work. Makes me also think about this review by @timcrane.bsky.social, though I am not sure if he ever felt the “pull” of Sellars I experience. #philsky

#bioethics #medicalethics #philsky #neuroethics

@thank you Sascha!