Why Has Technological Progress Outstripped Philosophical Progress?
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Why has philosophical progress failed to keep pace with technological progress?
Plato didn’t have a typewriter. Aristotle didn’t have an iPad. Plotinus didn’t have a smartphone. Descartes didn’t use a note taking app. Heidegger wasn’t on academia.edu. Hannah Arendt wasn’t on Twitter.
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