I think he’s implicitly restricting himself to philosophy. A “grand mistake” in philosophy has little ill effects.
A “grand mistake” in philosophy has little ill effects.
Um, they’ve been known to result in up to a quarter of the world’s population living under totalitarian dictatorships.
Fair enough. Good examples: Hegel --> Marx --> Soviet Union/China. Hegel --> Husserl --> Heidegger <---> Nazism.
I don’t know the context of the quote, but going just by the text quoted it doesn’t look like this.
That’s a pretty severe put-down of philosophy :-D
I didn’t read it that way—when I read “seek our opportunities to make grand mistakes”, the things I imagine are more like travel to foreign countries, try new things you’re bad at, talk to people way outside your usual circle, etc.
I think he’s implicitly restricting himself to philosophy. A “grand mistake” in philosophy has little ill effects.
Um, they’ve been known to result in up to a quarter of the world’s population living under totalitarian dictatorships.
Fair enough. Good examples: Hegel --> Marx --> Soviet Union/China. Hegel --> Husserl --> Heidegger <---> Nazism.
I don’t know the context of the quote, but going just by the text quoted it doesn’t look like this.
That’s a pretty severe put-down of philosophy :-D
I didn’t read it that way—when I read “seek our opportunities to make grand mistakes”, the things I imagine are more like travel to foreign countries, try new things you’re bad at, talk to people way outside your usual circle, etc.