Philosophy
Sir,—Can anyone tell me what Is this useless thing, philosophy, that Professor Prior thinks politicians should study? It supplies no information about anything that ' exists. It doesn’t inquire into any aspect of nature—this is the province of the sciences. It is not concerned to tell us what is good and distinguish it from the bad—this can be done only by experience. It has nothing to tell us about right and wrong or life's purpose—this is the sphere of religion and personal and social conscience. Its interest is not to promote the good life—sociology end politics take care of this Good taste and the graces belong to the arts. Even the orderly arrangement of thinking belongs to the science of logic; the mysteries of human functioning to physiology and psychology. The meaning of life as a whole is poetry’s domain. Does anybody know what the philosophic fogies do?—Yours, etc., R.S. January 8, 1958.
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28480, 9 January 1958, Page 3
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