Overall an excellent conversation, well worth watching. I was in Vienna recently bought a book by Schlick from an antiquarian book shop and liked what I read (I had been more familiar with Neurath and Carnap). It wasn't true (post Sellars and Hegel) but it was well and sympathetically presented. That led me to inquire into his biography which led me to Edmonds' book which I have ordered. I would like to quibble. I was astounded that the interviewer was under the illusion that the Nazis and fascism were somehow opposed to Christianity. It is a complicated tale. In Spain, Croatia, and Belgium fascism was fully endorsed and backed by the catholic church. Mussolini was first frowned upon by the church, then signed a concordat and was endorsed. Most German nazis were believing Christians. They took holy oaths and believed in Christ. The holocaust was in many ways the culminating Christian solution to the "Jewish problem." See the excellent book by Jewish philosopher Emil Fackenheim, To Mend the World. I think Christianity has been very good at distancing itself from the truth. I think many get confused by 'national socialism' into taking that odd name to imply that it was some kind of secular socialism. The word really was code for "against the rich and the owners"---a la mode in the post WWI crisis in Germany and a way to attract the rabble. Fascism then in Europe, and now in the US, is the ideology of Christians, and not an ideology opposed to Christianity. Despite this lacuna by one participant---generally excellent.
Completely true.The Church again failed, as can be seen in Austria, Croatia and Germany. When will this ant-humanitarian institution be dissolved and fade into nothingness?
Ww2 was more complex ... you have to study the Weimar Republic ... and Italian fascism...and the Soviet Union... the Churches {even in Italy} supported fascism (for a reason... in the USSR churches were banned)
I speculate that if Schlick had lived, Quine would have had more opposition from Schlick than he in fact had from Carnap, who was always a friendly foe. In particular I imagine Schlick putting pressure on Quine's holism. But this is counterfactual history of philosophy.
Probability does make more sense to me specially because human logic and reasoning did not have much to do with the existence of universe, and as such any outcome is possible in the future.
Overall an excellent conversation, well worth watching. I was in Vienna recently bought a book by Schlick from an antiquarian book shop and liked what I read (I had been more familiar with Neurath and Carnap). It wasn't true (post Sellars and Hegel) but it was well and sympathetically presented. That led me to inquire into his biography which led me to Edmonds' book which I have ordered.
I would like to quibble. I was astounded that the interviewer was under the illusion that the Nazis and fascism were somehow opposed to Christianity. It is a complicated tale. In Spain, Croatia, and Belgium fascism was fully endorsed and backed by the catholic church. Mussolini was first frowned upon by the church, then signed a concordat and was endorsed. Most German nazis were believing Christians. They took holy oaths and believed in Christ. The holocaust was in many ways the culminating Christian solution to the "Jewish problem." See the excellent book by Jewish philosopher Emil Fackenheim, To Mend the World. I think Christianity has been very good at distancing itself from the truth. I think many get confused by 'national socialism' into taking that odd name to imply that it was some kind of secular socialism. The word really was code for "against the rich and the owners"---a la mode in the post WWI crisis in Germany and a way to attract the rabble. Fascism then in Europe, and now in the US, is the ideology of Christians, and not an ideology opposed to Christianity. Despite this lacuna by one participant---generally excellent.
Completely true.The Church again failed, as can be seen in Austria, Croatia and Germany. When will this ant-humanitarian institution be dissolved and fade into nothingness?
Ww2 was more complex ... you have to study the Weimar Republic ... and Italian fascism...and the Soviet Union... the Churches {even in Italy} supported fascism (for a reason... in the USSR churches were banned)
I speculate that if Schlick had lived, Quine would have had more opposition from Schlick than he in fact had from Carnap, who was always a friendly foe. In particular I imagine Schlick putting pressure on Quine's holism. But this is counterfactual history of philosophy.
Probability does make more sense to me specially because human logic and reasoning did not have much to do with the existence of universe, and as such any outcome is possible in the future.
'fascism' not exactly