Why there are not great philosophers like Aristotle or Plato anymore?

Biden's Chosen said:
It sounds more like you found meaning than ideas. Because ideas, by their nature, only have value if they are understood. If they're understood, they can be described. If it's incomprehensible, it's more akin to religion. I am religious, I'm not intending this as downtalking to you. But it's not really part of philosophy, a love of knowledge, not even really theology, because that too is an endeavor of understanding,

In other words, I'm glad you found meaning man, but what does this have to do with philosophy?
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you are literally trolling me
 
Most great philosophers are only acknowledged as such after their deaths, because their work can be evaluated outside of the academic bearpit. For an academic, once another academic dies, they are a primary source, not a rival. You can praise and promote a dead academic's work without prejudice to your own, but if you promote the work of a living one you have to deal with academia's idiotic politics.

That said, I had the great privilege of attending lectures by Lincoln Allison, who is still alive, and is probably the greatest philosophical mind in the political theory arena at the moment. He's best described as a right-wing environmentalist. Seek out his work.
 
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They're banned off social media so you just don't see them, and nobody reads books anymore.
 
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