tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6398699458159756321.post546570034895186271..comments2024-03-07T22:31:37.969+01:00Comments on Philosophy by the Way: Old ideas just fade awayHbdWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05358668804898517772noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6398699458159756321.post-75887126025408268042010-07-14T14:52:31.981+02:002010-07-14T14:52:31.981+02:00You could be right about no one having studied it,...You could be right about no one having studied it, I just don't know. I do bet you though that todays socities are fundamentally no different than past socities. The overwhelming majority always go wih the flow and that goes for the majority of academcis as well.Simonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00540668068672572303noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6398699458159756321.post-70461785907544659522010-07-13T01:13:33.382+02:002010-07-13T01:13:33.382+02:00Hello Simon. Thank you for your reaction. I must s...Hello Simon. Thank you for your reaction. I must say that I did not follow the discussion about memes, so I cannot say anything about it. When people develop ideas, I see it as a psychological question in the first place. People grow up and are educated in certain values and ideas.When you are 20-25 years old, most of your values and your ideas are based on it have been established. What happens then is that you elaborate and develop them and deepens them. Or you just leave them as they are. There are only few people who basically change their opinions yet, and if there are it often happens gradually. People become more moderate in their opinions, for instance. But most older people do not support basically new ideas. That’s the way I see it. Of course there are exceptions and hardly any body is 100% static.<br />In philosophy you see the same. Positivism faded away, for instance, for most of the bearers of this idea were not personally convinced that they were wrong. But within philosophy much has been said already about it in the discussion around Kuhn’s book. What I wanted to do in this blog is to present it as a sociological phenomenon, since this psychological phenomenon has social consequences. As far as I know this idea has only been studied as an epistomelogical phenomenon, not as a sociological phenomenon.HbdWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05358668804898517772noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6398699458159756321.post-24448602601657351612010-07-12T08:45:33.168+02:002010-07-12T08:45:33.168+02:00Henk any ideas how this would apply to philosopher...Henk any ideas how this would apply to philosophers and philosophical ideas?Simonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00540668068672572303noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6398699458159756321.post-65519354473828663682010-07-11T14:49:43.941+02:002010-07-11T14:49:43.941+02:00Henk It would interesting to see how this working ...Henk It would interesting to see how this working in with meme propagation and death. I would also throw in choice blindness. <br /><br />I bet that many people think the reason that have such and such a belief is because of such and such reason, when really they just accept whatever is the dominant social meme of that day and rationalise the justification.<br /><br />When the geo-social'food' that sustains that meme disappears, like a animal population that meme may start to disappear or evolve into something else.Simonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00540668068672572303noreply@blogger.com