Timeline for Is Political Correctness the enemy of Universalist Philosophy? [closed]
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| Jun 21, 2021 at 14:05 | history | closed |
curiousdannii Kristian Berry armand Ted Wrigley Swami Vishwananda |
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| Jun 21, 2021 at 4:09 | answer | added | Ted Wrigley | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jun 21, 2021 at 3:26 | comment | added | armand | How is this barely disguised political rant still open on Philosophy SE ? | |
| Jun 21, 2021 at 2:10 | answer | added | Kristian Berry | timeline score: -2 | |
| Jun 21, 2021 at 0:57 | comment | added | Alex | Philosophy, has been and is a discipline that strove and strives to better understand things from a more idealistic and universalist perspective; it is not a field that is (or should) preoccupy itself with cultural particularities....that belongs to certain Social Sciences-(especially, Anthropology, Sociology, Archeology and History). | |
| Jun 21, 2021 at 0:53 | comment | added | Alex | and "wokeness" over the past few years. | |
| Jun 21, 2021 at 0:53 | comment | added | Alex | While there may have been earlier signs of the "culture wars" 40-55 years ago on American college campuses, the PC movement has been gradually attacking and even vilifying the Canon, Western Civilization and the West in general...it unfortunately, has culminated with "Cancel culture " | |
| Jun 21, 2021 at 0:51 | comment | added | Alex | Well, if one wants to chronicle the rise of American Radicalism, he or she can go back to the tumultuous 1960's and 1970's which radically transformed many American Colleges and Universities. The Vietnam War protests, the Feminist Movement and other social movements, etc., were very active on many College campuses during those years. However, what makes Political Correctness, "newer" and distinguishable than their 60's predecessors, are the "culture wars", in terms of highlighting and centralizing one's ethnic, religious and/or racial identity in our public discourse. Con't.... | |
| Jun 21, 2021 at 0:49 | comment | added | E Tam | Can you explain what you mean by "the Universal" and how philosophy is the opposite of history? | |
| Jun 21, 2021 at 0:47 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Jun 20, 2021 at 23:14 | comment | added | Kristian Berry | How real are any of these supposed anti-philosophical phenomena? It always seems to me that these are phrases used by intellectual narcissists trying to play the "freedom of speech" card when they get called out for their bias, ignorance, and hypocrisy. | |
| Jun 20, 2021 at 22:54 | comment | added | user4894 | I remember "PC" being used ironically/mockingly in the 1960's. It's a lot older than 30 years. Also see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Revolution which is the grandfather of today's cultural Marxism. | |
| Jun 20, 2021 at 22:49 | comment | added | David Gudeman | Political Correctness is at bottom an effort to constrain thought based on political considerations, therefore it is inevitably opposed to any other ways of producing thought, whether religious, rational, scientific, or otherwise. Even mathematics has been attacked as a way of acquiring knowledge. | |
| Jun 20, 2021 at 22:42 | history | asked | Alex | CC BY-SA 4.0 |