![]() ![]() Plato, and by the way one wouldn't want to live in Plato's Republic, it was a bit sort of Fascist in a way, but he was a tremendous genius who identified all the really important questions to ask and tried to wrestle with them in a way which has triggered a whole tradition of debate about those matters. “They really did change the way people thought and debated things. ![]() His three philosophical titans are Plato, Aristotle and Kant, he says. It's an attempt to find the right way to formulate, and then to answer all the great questions that really press on us.” “In the 20th century philosophy has contributed enormously to computer science and to cognitive science. Modern philosophical enquiry alone has given us the natural sciences, psychology, sociology and empirical linguistics, he says. He says generations of philosophical thinkers have profoundly changed the way we see the world. ![]() "So, the very earliest philosophers were not just philosophers but scientists and historians and psychologists, they were just trying to make sense of things.” ![]() “Well the first thing to remember is that philosophy, in its original meaning, just meant rational and careful inquiry, thinking about everything, trying to discover and make sense and to achieve some kind of understanding of our world and of ourselves. Listen to the full interview with Professor Grayling ![]()
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