I find this quite interesting and suggestive. It argues that America is, or has become, a philosophical society.
I concur with that judgement.
Then I ask: is Australia a philosophical society?
It too was once dismissed an intellectual wasteland by those working from a European perspective. A utilitarian Australia is generally seen as practical and on-the-go; as deeply anti-intellectual; as importing ideas from overseas; and as not being able to generate its own ideas. For the practical business man philosophy is seen as speculative, useless and akin to daydreaming.
But what if we adopt the perspective developed on this weblog in which philosophy is reconnected with its rhetorical roots?
Does that disclose something other?
It is something to mull over.
Posted by Gary Sauer-Thompson at October 16, 2003 05:37 PM | TrackBack