Tuesday, November 8, 2016

Political Philosophy and Goals

Arguably, Nietzsche does not only call for Philosophers "of the future", to set concrete goals, he himself exemplifies the paradigm, as not only a teacher of the uberhuman, but as an advocate of a means to it, i. e. a program of eugenics.  In either case, this concept of what amounts to Political Philosophy stands in sharp contrast with most of the preceding tradition.  For example, Plato speaks of "the Good", but without offering any elaboration, leading some to interpret it as esoteric, e. g. Strauss, and others, as indefinable, e. g. Moore, when, it is possible that Plato simply has no such elaboration to offer.  Regardless, the concept of a concrete goal disappears in Modern Political Philosophy, except for the Wealth of Smith, and the Socialism of Socialists.  Still, in even these cases, the goals are no more than mediate, albeit timely, in contrast with one that perhaps constitutes a post-human evolutionary step.

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