Philosophy is supposed to give some direction in life. It is meant to apply reason to questions about life and the universe in general. Yet is it has not been providing much direction for a long time. So instead of philosophy people would look into different religions.
Now in the Middle Ages there actually was direction one could gain from philosophy since the general line then was Faith with Reason. But since then this balance has been lost.
That balance and synthesis was lost to some degree I would guess because of the Enlightenment that meant to push out priest and princes and replace them with intellectuals [as Allan Bloom points out in his Closing of the American Mind].
But Kant and Hegel meant to find a balance. Kant on one hand looked towards Newton as a paradigm of what a rigorous logical philosophy ought to be, [as Nataliya Palatnik in Kant's Moral System points out in her PhD.] Kant however knows there are no experiments that can be done. So he substitutes the idea that certain kinds of things, dinge an sich [things beyond the capability of experience] if reason goes into them comes up with self contradictions. And Hegel simply stretched that idea further to come to the conclusion that reason (--no matter what it is applied to) will come up with self contradictions until it rises up one level to a higher level where that contradiction disappears and then at that level the process is continued until one gets to God.
However Kant and Hegel only lasted until the 1900's. Then came "analytic philosophy". That Robert Hanna has shown well is overdue for the trash bin. So people are waking up again to Kant and Hegel. [But I have no idea what kind of approach to Kant and Hegel, Robert Hanna would take. Which Neo Kant school? If any? Which approach to Hegel? McTaggart? Maybe someone would start to look at them afresh?]
Now in the Middle Ages there actually was direction one could gain from philosophy since the general line then was Faith with Reason. But since then this balance has been lost.
That balance and synthesis was lost to some degree I would guess because of the Enlightenment that meant to push out priest and princes and replace them with intellectuals [as Allan Bloom points out in his Closing of the American Mind].
But Kant and Hegel meant to find a balance. Kant on one hand looked towards Newton as a paradigm of what a rigorous logical philosophy ought to be, [as Nataliya Palatnik in Kant's Moral System points out in her PhD.] Kant however knows there are no experiments that can be done. So he substitutes the idea that certain kinds of things, dinge an sich [things beyond the capability of experience] if reason goes into them comes up with self contradictions. And Hegel simply stretched that idea further to come to the conclusion that reason (--no matter what it is applied to) will come up with self contradictions until it rises up one level to a higher level where that contradiction disappears and then at that level the process is continued until one gets to God.
However Kant and Hegel only lasted until the 1900's. Then came "analytic philosophy". That Robert Hanna has shown well is overdue for the trash bin. So people are waking up again to Kant and Hegel. [But I have no idea what kind of approach to Kant and Hegel, Robert Hanna would take. Which Neo Kant school? If any? Which approach to Hegel? McTaggart? Maybe someone would start to look at them afresh?]
