For all his draw-backs and deficiencies, Prof. Mike still makes us think....

Below-copied by ap first published at comments, http://aphilosopher.wordpress.com/2014/05/23/the-trolling-test/#comment-42198

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Does Mike Serve As His Own Troll?

(Apollonian, 23 May 14)

This is interesting challenge by our Hebraic colleague, WTP.  For note Mike pretends to "philosophy" while insisting he should be funded by tax-payers for bamboozling the students on the theme of "ethics," which Mike asserts and declares, with no foundation, is "end in itself."

What, after all, is a "philosopher"?--it ain't Mike.  For philosophy is a RATIONAL, hence ordered, grasp of whole of reality and knowledge.  Mike is anti-rational and anti-philosophic, his entire purpose being pretension to (Platonic, Kantian) "good," this necessary to ZOG dictatorship/empire as premise for OBEDIENCE and pretext then for drone-assassination, according to NDAA fascism now in practical effect.

"Good," hence MYSTICISM and subjectivism, is always the ultimate justification for fascism, "good" always worst enemy of TRUTH, as well as justice, reason, etc.

Mike is actually, typical Platonist--hence MYSTIC, hence anti-philosopher, actually--who merely styles his mysticism, based upon non-existent "good," in terminology and phraseology and name-dropping, in this case, Descartes and Turing.

Take his very first sentence for this blog, "[o]ne interesting philosophical problem is known as the problem of other minds."  This is CLASSIC question-begging, for WHY is it "interesting," and HOW is it actually any real kind of "problem"?--observe Mike, typically, doesn't bother explaining any of this, merely presuming the truth of the proposition is apparent, then going on w. the rest of his expo.

But Mike deserves some credit nonetheless as he confidently writes his essays challenging anyone to respond in some kind of dialectic.

In a certain way, Mike is his own "troll," as he poses these mystic-tinged essays of his--which can then be rejoined in so many ways, positively, in way of agreeing, and otherwise by way of criticism, as so often for my own Aristotelian-themed efforts.

U gotta admit: Mike makes us think--that's his one saving quality, regardless of anything else one might say.