America was created by philosophy

[Cypress]

I don't know if this is on topic, but Philosophy 101 was a very important freshman class in college.
It helped keep my GPA on a respectable level.
I'm hard pressed to even imagine an easier A than that.
Those As helped boost up all those Gentleman's Cs.

I don't remember any really easy classes in college, but I took a lot of PE classes in high school because they were guaranteed A's

 

[Tinkerpeach]

While he is correct he is ignoring the fact that all society’s are based on philosophy.

His mistake is trying to portray America as unique

We aren’t

He is simply stating an obvious fact and trying to spin it as if he has discovered something

Many scholars use this tactic to make themselves look good

 

[Melchizedek = Michael]

It seems you don't either. You just quoted this. Whenever anyone even so much as questions the received wisdom you acquire you don't take it well.

Name dropping 101! Cypress gets an A!
But name dropping to avoid having an opinion is
Cypress 101

 

[IBDaMann]

I am curious, however, why Cypress thinks merely quoting something without comment = "Discussion".

I think he's following guno's lead.

 

[Cypress]

While he is correct he is ignoring the fact that all society’s are based on philosophy.

His mistake is trying to portray America as unique

We aren’t

He is simply stating an obvious fact and trying to spin it as if he has discovered something

Many scholars use this tactic to make themselves look good

The formation of modern Germany and Italy were based on largely nationalism and the perception that other European powers were cynically trying to keep the Holy Roman empire and the Italian peninsula weak and divided..

Tsarist Russia was largely constituted as the third Rome, a Christian Orthodox empire destined by divine providence to expel Mongols and Muslims from the Eurasian landscape.

America is not unique, but it's creation and independence does consciously look to the antecedents of classical liberal political philosophies of natural rights, the sovereignty of the citizen, and strict limits on government power.

 

[NiftyNiblick]

From what I can see, America seems to have been born
of wealthy landowners
who did not want to pay taxes
to the Crown which financed their colonization.

Tax evaders have been trying to run it ever since.

 

[Lightbringer]

Yet you know less than nothing about philosophy.

There are so many jokes I could make here that I'm at a loss.

 

[Lightbringer]

"Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy." —Margaret Thatcher

Commentators often suggest that Americans have no political philosophy. The standard line is that Americans are doers, not thinkers; pragmatists, not philosophers. On first glance, this seems insightful; however, close examination of the corpus of American political thought makes clear that this thought-action dichotomy is illusory. Born of English parents and developed in changing and increasingly heterogeneous contexts, American political thought has cycled around an essentially liberal core for nearly 400 years.

Although Americans tend not to think explicitly in terms of abstract theory, our very institutions are informed by theory. In fact, as Garry Wills has noted, America is an “invented” country, the construct of men who consciously built political structures to govern a nation. The traditional concerns of political philosophy guided them: the nature of humans, the sources of legitimate social and political authority, the nature of, the role of the individual citizen, and the proper ends of social and governmental order. Thus, instead of being theory-poor, American institutions are rooted in, and have developed from, explicitly philosophical origins. Wittingly or not, this conditions American citizens: Our thought and actions are theory bound and guided.



source credit Joseph F. Kobylka, professor of political science

See how quick your own turn on you? Maybe you and Chapelle can have dinner and commiserate.

 

[Tinkerpeach]

The formation of modern Germany and Italy were based on largely nationalism and the perception that other European powers were cynically trying to keep the Holy Roman empire and the Italian peninsula weak and divided..

Tsarist Russia was largely constituted as the third Rome, a Christian Orthodox empire destined by divine providence to expel Mongols and Muslims from the Eurasian landscape.

America is not unique, but it's creation and independence does consciously look to the antecedents of classical liberal political philosophies of natural rights, the sovereignty of the citizen, and strict limits on government power.

And you could extrapolate that logic to every civilization ever formed

Every civilization is rooted in previous cultures

 

[Cypress]

And you could extrapolate that logic to every civilization ever formed

Every civilization is rooted in previous cultures

"Rooted in previous cultures" is such a nebulous and trite phrase as to render itself practically meaningless.

The philosophical foundations of America are substantially different than the divine right of kings, or the Mandate of Heaven that constituted the basis for Medieval European states and the empires of East Asia.

 

[Mason Michaels]

"Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy." —Margaret Thatcher

Commentators often suggest that Americans have no political philosophy. The standard line is that Americans are doers, not thinkers; pragmatists, not philosophers. On first glance, this seems insightful; however, close examination of the corpus of American political thought makes clear that this thought-action dichotomy is illusory. Born of English parents and developed in changing and increasingly heterogeneous contexts, American political thought has cycled around an essentially liberal core for nearly 400 years.

Although Americans tend not to think explicitly in terms of abstract theory, our very institutions are informed by theory. In fact, as Garry Wills has noted, America is an “invented” country, the construct of men who consciously built political structures to govern a nation. The traditional concerns of political philosophy guided them: the nature of humans, the sources of legitimate social and political authority, the nature of, the role of the individual citizen, and the proper ends of social and governmental order. Thus, instead of being theory-poor, American institutions are rooted in, and have developed from, explicitly philosophical origins. Wittingly or not, this conditions American citizens: Our thought and actions are theory bound and guided.



source credit Joseph F. Kobylka, professor of political science

Margaret Thatcher was an ugly right wing cunt!

 

[saltydancin]

"Rooted in previous cultures" is such a nebulous and trite phrase as to render itself practically meaningless.

The philosophical foundations of America are substantially different than the divine right of kings, or the Mandate of Heaven that constituted the basis for Medieval European states and the empires of East Asia.

There are such a crusade - jihad multitude which must be liking those crooks on Capital Hill Federal Lynching KKK churchstate of hate fiefdom drug trafficking enforcement of SCOTUS Rehnquist Fourth Reich July 9/11 not so master race national religion diatribe Washington, D.C. born USA citizens are Islam to continue that Bicentennial celebration Washington, D.C. born USA citizens are Islam for their Christiananality pedophilia master plan "man is God" of a Christian Nation economics of "one nation under God with equal justice under law"....

 

[serenity]

"Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy." —Margaret Thatcher

Commentators often suggest that Americans have no political philosophy. The standard line is that Americans are doers, not thinkers; pragmatists, not philosophers. On first glance, this seems insightful; however, close examination of the corpus of American political thought makes clear that this thought-action dichotomy is illusory. Born of English parents and developed in changing and increasingly heterogeneous contexts, American political thought has cycled around an essentially liberal core for nearly 400 years.

Although Americans tend not to think explicitly in terms of abstract theory, our very institutions are informed by theory. In fact, as Garry Wills has noted, America is an “invented” country, the construct of men who consciously built political structures to govern a nation. The traditional concerns of political philosophy guided them: the nature of humans, the sources of legitimate social and political authority, the nature of, the role of the individual citizen, and the proper ends of social and governmental order. Thus, instead of being theory-poor, American institutions are rooted in, and have developed from, explicitly philosophical origins. Wittingly or not, this conditions American citizens: Our thought and actions are theory bound and guided.

source credit Joseph F. Kobylka, professor of political science

Philosophy only creates speculation of what else is possible besides only evolving forward now in plain sight. Without philosophy there is no psychological class warfare between generation gaps and within each generation corrupting last generation to comply with ideas by the previous 4 as the universal constant pattern of behavior within this species native to this universal location, location, location.

Power of suggesting now isn't the common denominator of life is eternally separated by the working biological results in plain sight of all the numerating ideas typecasting ancestries into stereo typical behavior recorded throughout history of people never accepting life in real time by choices of common behavioral patterns pretending to be exceptions to the natural process of genetics eternally separating reproductions left evolving forward now every franchise of reality uses same methodology to ways and means keeping everyone confused cradle to grave where 1% collect all the benefits of pitting everyone else against each other intellectually training each great great grandchild to follow their specific previous 4 generations gaps saving humanities.

Humanities are socially engineered outcomes promising factually better days tomorrow than actual reproductions are living so far conceived to decomposed now.

 

[Blackwater Lunchbreak]

"Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy." —Margaret Thatcher

Commentators often suggest that Americans have no political philosophy. The standard line is that Americans are doers, not thinkers; pragmatists, not philosophers. On first glance, this seems insightful; however, close examination of the corpus of American political thought makes clear that this thought-action dichotomy is illusory. Born of English parents and developed in changing and increasingly heterogeneous contexts, American political thought has cycled around an essentially liberal core for nearly 400 years.

Although Americans tend not to think explicitly in terms of abstract theory, our very institutions are informed by theory. In fact, as Garry Wills has noted, America is an “invented” country, the construct of men who consciously built political structures to govern a nation. The traditional concerns of political philosophy guided them: the nature of humans, the sources of legitimate social and political authority, the nature of, the role of the individual citizen, and the proper ends of social and governmental order. Thus, instead of being theory-poor, American institutions are rooted in, and have developed from, explicitly philosophical origins. Wittingly or not, this conditions American citizens: Our thought and actions are theory bound and guided.



source credit Joseph F. Kobylka, professor of political science

And critical theory disregards all those theories, and focuses narrowly on power and techniques of division.

 

[BidenPresident]

And critical theory disregards all those theories, and focuses narrowly on power and techniques of division.

What do you mean by "critical theory?"

 

[Blackwater Lunchbreak]

What do you mean by "critical theory?"

Did you google it?

 

[BidenPresident]

Did you google it?

You used the term. Obviously you have no idea what it means.

 

[Blackwater Lunchbreak]

You used the term. Obviously you have no idea what it means.

It's a philosophy of academic analysis which is anti-intellectual in it's essence.

it asserts the only value is raw power, and that the only framework for all academic analysis is from within this supposition. in the final analysis THeir only intellectual m.o. is the ad hominem attack and changing definitions of words.

See the frankfurt school in germany for the academic stars of this movement which is the propaganda overlay for totalitarian subjugation.

 

[BidenPresident]

It's a philosophy of academic analysis which is anti-intellectual in it's essence.

it asserts the only value is raw power, and that the only framework for all academic analysis is from within this supposition. in the final analysis THeir only intellectual m.o. is the ad hominem attack and changing definitions of words.

See the frankfurt school in germany for the academic stars of this movement which is the propaganda overlay for totalitarian subjugation.

That is all false.

 

[Saint Guinefort]

"Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy." —Margaret Thatcher

Commentators often suggest that Americans have no political philosophy. The standard line is that Americans are doers, not thinkers; pragmatists, not philosophers. On first glance, this seems insightful; however, close examination of the corpus of American political thought makes clear that this thought-action dichotomy is illusory. Born of English parents and developed in changing and increasingly heterogeneous contexts, American political thought has cycled around an essentially liberal core for nearly 400 years.

Although Americans tend not to think explicitly in terms of abstract theory, our very institutions are informed by theory. In fact, as Garry Wills has noted, America is an “invented” country, the construct of men who consciously built political structures to govern a nation. The traditional concerns of political philosophy guided them: the nature of humans, the sources of legitimate social and political authority, the nature of, the role of the individual citizen, and the proper ends of social and governmental order. Thus, instead of being theory-poor, American institutions are rooted in, and have developed from, explicitly philosophical origins. Wittingly or not, this conditions American citizens: Our thought and actions are theory bound and guided.



source credit Joseph F. Kobylka, professor of political science

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