Double down, or maybe even call the bluff. The difficulty is that philosophy is both unavoidable because there are contrasting views on how we should act and what we should strive for and just really hard because it is difficult to come to a firm conclusion on how we should act that isn’t just provisional. The difficulty with freedom is that the masses are not capable of philosophy (and I should quickly add that I include the elite in the masses as well) because it requires training and such training requires time (and leisure has material preconditions, and that itself is subject to critique because leisure depends often on inequality). When the masses are liberated from traditional belief they don’t become authentic but fly back to forms of mass belief or bizarre superstitions or the wisdom of the crowd. The best of what we can hope for a culture that has good instructions and a strong cultural spirit, perhaps set up in part by philosophers but not necessarily so, or in other words, healthy ideologies. I take for example a rights regime to be one of the forms of a heathy ideology, which does in some way have a philosophic background adopted en masse. If I had my drothers I’d teach traditionalism first and foremost, and to the extra curious who had gone through the traditional path I’d give philosophy, but only quietly, and after assurance of their character.
Double down, or maybe even call the bluff. The difficulty is that philosophy is both unavoidable because there are contrasting views on how we should act and what we should strive for and just really hard because it is difficult to come to a firm conclusion on how we should act that isn’t just provisional. The difficulty with freedom is that the masses are not capable of philosophy (and I should quickly add that I include the elite in the masses as well) because it requires training and such training requires time (and leisure has material preconditions, and that itself is subject to critique because leisure depends often on inequality). When the masses are liberated from traditional belief they don’t become authentic but fly back to forms of mass belief or bizarre superstitions or the wisdom of the crowd. The best of what we can hope for a culture that has good instructions and a strong cultural spirit, perhaps set up in part by philosophers but not necessarily so, or in other words, healthy ideologies. I take for example a rights regime to be one of the forms of a heathy ideology, which does in some way have a philosophic background adopted en masse. If I had my drothers I’d teach traditionalism first and foremost, and to the extra curious who had gone through the traditional path I’d give philosophy, but only quietly, and after assurance of their character.