In his book: “Philosophical Diagnosis of the Present. Essays on Political Self-Knowledge,” the thinker THEODOROS GEORGIOU presents ideas and thoughts through his critical philosophical discourse that help us understand what is happening in our time.
He has processed Hegel's position: “philosophy is the age of the understanding captured in concepts.” Philosophy is not the theoretical-practical reconstruction of the philosophical tradition. In this work, the author answers the question: “What is the use of philosophy?” To the question: why do we philosophize? To the question: why do we think?
And his answer: we philosophize to grasp the historical-social conjuncture in which we live, to understand the living conditions, and to be able to create a better world. In Aristotle’s terms, we philosophize to invent methods by which we can “construct” the “good life” in the human condition.
The 11th of the “Theses on Feuerbach” by Karl Marx is always timely: “Philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways. The point is to change it.” And in our own conjuncture, changes are taking place, and thought is the vehicle of these changes.
