February 8, 2015

Hume, Kant, and WebPhil

To be perfectly honest, I doubt that anyone of intelligence and experience who views WebPhil in its current state would consider it to be beautiful. Our posts, while sharing a common theme, repeat many of the same ideas and thus would serve only to overwhelm and confuse visitors. WebPhil does not have Plato's organic unity. We should only publish what we want the public to see. On the Facebook page of PHIL 214, for example, I have only included the most exemplary posts on the main timeline, which is what the public will see when they visit the page. Something similar should be done for our site, or perhaps we should even create a new site which we will then strive to attract visitors to. Yes, I know that Kant said that the process of interpreting something should cause one to feel the sublime and struggle with their deeply held beliefs, but that doesn't mean we should confuse everyone who visits our site. Let's figure out how to make this site beautiful; how to make it worth looking at and admiring.

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