Philosophy and the Social Problem

Let us dare to compress within a page or two the social aspect of philosophical thought from Spinoza to Nietzsche. Without forgetting that our purpose is to show the social prob...

“This plan is a hare-brained scheme for a new priesthood and a new aristocracy. It would put a group of college professors and graduates into a position where they could do almo...

Why do we love Plato? Perhaps because Plato himself was a lover: lover of comrades, lover of the sweet intoxication of dialectical revelry, full of passion for the elusive reali...

History is a process of rebarbarization. A people made vigorous by arduous physical conditions of life, and driven by the increasing exigencies of survival, leaves its native ha...

And so we come through our five episodes in the history of the reconstructive mind, and find ourselves in the bewildering present, comfortably seated, let us say, in the great r...

Passing from Bacon to Spinoza we meet with Thomas Hobbes, a man from whom Spinoza drew many of his ideas, though very little of his inspiration. The social incidence of the grea...

Intelligence is organized experience; but intelligence itself must be organized. Consider the resources of the unused intelligence of the world; intelligence potential but undev...

“As I read Plato,” writes Professor Dewey, “philosophy began with some sense of its essentially political basis and mission--a recognition that its problems were those of the or...

Now there are a great many people who will feel no thrill at all at the mention of philosophy,--who will rather consider themselves excused by the very occurrence of the word fr...

The purpose of this essay is to show: first, that the social problem has been the basic concern of many of the greater philosophers; second, that an approach to the social probl...

1. Morality as impotence 126 2. Democracy 128 3. Feminism 131 4. Socialism and anarchism 133 5. Degeneration 138 6. Nihilism 141 7. The will to power 143 8. The superman 150 9....