Well, what the hell!

[The Philosopher]

When did this place pop up, and was anyone going to tell me? And who do I thank?

[rrneck]

1. Tuesday Afternoon made it happen. nt

[The Philosopher]

3. A public high five to Tuesday Afternoon, then!

I remember months ago there being a conversation about starting a philosophy group (a conversation I can't recall with any detail, maybe even vagueness), but due to some personal stuff I dropped out of it. I'm glad someone god it done.

Thanks, Tuesday Afternoon!

[sigmasix]

2. about a month ago

I've been too busy to get involved the way I would like; I'd love to discuss early, pre marxist, continental utopian theories and systems. Especially the long lasting linguistic and moral influences begun by early believers in the power of the enlightenment and the new role that mankind was to play. I am especially interested in the systems and societies of the writings of Charles Fourier. He was an early advocate for 100% equality among the genders and destruction of patriarchal arrangements and power divisions. Fourier's descriptions of his future utopian society pre-date Thomas More and other more popular social philosophers' utopian ideals by at least 30 years. He was mostly a self-educated, mercantile class. french jack of all trades. He had a prodigious appetite for the newest "natural philosophy" findings and was often found measuring much of his surroundings with a special cane designed with a yard stick-like intention. Fourier was a lot like America's founding fathers; he had an unshakable belief in the power of human beings to understand the natural world through "natural philosophy"~a product of the enlightenment~ which slowly evolved to be called "science". His writings are a joy because he retains a lust-ful exhuberance for his beliefs and the pursuit of society's perfection.