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A Farewell: The "End" of Paul Feyerabend and Why We Ought To Be Really, Really Worried! by Henry Johnson Having led us on a long and arduous pilgrimage--or is it a crusade?--from the Pre-Socratics to the contemporary scene in science and philosophy, in pursuit of that all-corrupting tendency of the arrogant cultural elites, viz: bifurcating and abstracting healthy, comprehensive human experience by faulty conceptualizing and fatal dualisms, Feyerabend (or rather, his editor) appends two final jeremiads addressed to intellectuals in general and philosophers in particular. Not surprisingly, the verdict is clear. The Original Sin (disobedience to the natural integration of human experience) that first stained our Western Eden (Homeric or late pre-Homeric Attica) was introduced by that forked-tongued Deceiver, Parmenides. He was the archetypical Serpent who, by a formalized chop-logic and linguistic trickery, crushed the fecundity of Being into a sterile but still poisonous pablum. Once infected, there was no escape: "The doctrine has survived until today," he says. Kept alive most notably by those philosophers and scientists whose "real" world of pure metaphysical simplicity (sans every aspect of reality as we encounter it daily) is the neuter world—read "epistemological state or condition." That is the fallen world into which all are now born and from which they must be rescued. Or, rather, almost all intellectuals, for the masses, in their struggles, rarely fall for this myopic myth, being rather too busy living to spend their precious moments idly thinking about what living "really is"!
Approximate Word count = 909
Approximate Pages = 3.6
(250 words per page double spaced)
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