Knowledge can hardly be a kingdom divided against itself otherwise what
would there be to love about knowledge. Capitalism has no basis in
philosophy. A capitalist isn't going to invest capital in the institution
of philosophy and expect a return on his investment. A capitalist doesn't
get to pick and choose which philosophers should live and which should die.
Logic is not corrupted by capital. If a tree falls in the woods and nobody
hears the sound it makes then has it made a sound? The sound of the trees
falling is... not likely to cause the other trees to fall.

The quest?

John Locke (a philosopher) played a formative role in the Western conception
of property. Property is a concept fundamental to capitalism. Ergo,
capitalism has at least some basis in philosophy.

Philosophers write books, publishing houses are owned by capitalists and
intend to sell, for profit, their wares (including philosophy books).
Publishers expect and get returns on their investment (authors) or they go
out of business. I buy some current philosophy books; therefore capitalist
owned publishers producing philosophy books
currently exist, and tautologically, capitalists do invest in the
institution of philosophy and expect a return on their investment.

On Jun 3, 7:42 am, kmurphy...@houston.rr.com wrote:

If philosophy is necessary for some trades, and these trades are
crucial for the network of relationships that are necessary for
manufacturing, then philosophy is sometimes a profitable investment,
however the procurment is distributed.

http://chiron.valdosta.edu/whuitt/col/context/toffler.html

On Jun 3, 11:42 pm, kmurphy...@houston.rr.com wrote:

Crap, capitalism is a political philosophy just as envy ridden fucking
socialism is a political philosophy.

Your philosophy is the *blue print* of your survival, its the means of
your ideas and therefore your actions.

Capitalism is based on the principle of trade, specifically, the
intent of the trade is that BOTH parties to the trade, firstly, deal
with each other on a voluntary basis and secondly, that BOTH parties
to the trade perceive a greater benefit than their own perception of
their own cost.

(its NOT called *trade* when someone is threatening you harm to deal,
thats called thuggery, e.g. the fucking taxman)

Totally unfettered capitalism, which means totally untouched by the
envy ridden scummy socialist parasites e.g. Tim and chazzzzzz and
mobocracy political cronyism, totally unfettered capitalsim is the
only moral political philosophy.

Michael Gordge

On Sun, 03 Jun 2007 14:42:12 +0000, kmurphy004 wrote:

I would like to know what doesn't have a basis in philosophy?

Any economic system has a basis in philosophy. One could term economics as
one of many types of applied philosophy.

On 5-Jun-2007, Robert Cohen msn.com> wrote: