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Environmental Crisis, Philosophy & the Search for Meaning - ROBERT PIPPIN - Highlights
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Author of The Culmination: Heidegger, German Idealism, and the Fate of
Philosophy
Modernism as a Philosophical Problem · Hegel’s Idealism
Philosophy is both an academic discipline and also something that everybody
does. Everybody has to have reflective views about what's significant. They
also have to justify to themselves why it's significant or important. The
nature of justice itself, and the various opinions that have been written
about in philosophy about justice, can get to a very high level. So there's
this unusual connection between philosophy and human life. We've inherited
from the middle ages, this incredible tradition that's now developed into a
chance for young people to spend four or five years, in a way, released
from the pressures of life. The idea to pursue your ideas a little further
in these four years you have, exempt from the pressures of social life,
allows philosophy to have a kind of position unique in the academy. In
confronting what the best minds in the history of the world have had to say
about these issues, the hope is that they provide for the people who are
privileged enough to confront philosophy a better and more thoughtful
approach to these fundamental questions that everybody has to confront.
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