2018-12-08
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So pretty much since day one on this podcast, we've seen philosophers come along,
look at the world around them, and through intense contemplation and reasoning,
holding the world to their version of philosophical scrutiny,
they've all come up with their own systems that do their best to define the way the world is.
The assumption has always been that as time goes on,
thinkers build off of the work of the thinkers that came before them.
Over time, each of these systems becoming a little more unbiased,
a little more accurate in terms of understanding the epistemology, aesthetics, ethics, metaphysics of the world.
But more specifically,
and more importantly to the conversation that's going on in the mid to late 20th century that we've been talking about,
there's been an assumption that we've been heading in the right direction when it comes to the questions of ontology.
What is being?
What does it mean to be?
Dozens of other questions we've talked about on separate episodes.
But as we've seen in the early 20th century,