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Can Philosophy Come Back?
Ginzburg, Benjamin | August 31, 1932 issue

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This age has not been an age of philosophy and infact the very idea of philosophy as an intellectual discipline is held in disrepute in many countries, particularly in the United States. One has only to compare the amount of newspaper interest devoted to a congress of philosophers and that devoted to a congress of scientists. Were philosophy a specialized art or a specialized science, one might accept its present low status as one vicissitude of time and wait for a turn of the wheel. Thus at certain periods a particular science such as physics has been in the ascendant among the whole group of sciences at other times biology has been in the ascendant and physics has been almost backward.

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PHILOSOPHY; IDEOLOGY; LIFE sciences; SCHOLARS; SCIENTISTS; INTELLECTUALS
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