L'avenir du crétinisme
pp. 135-148
in: Anne Reboul (ed), Mind, values, and metaphysics II, Berlin, Springer, 2014Abstract
I take up here Kevin Mulligan's idea that stupidity—actually stultitia, foolishness—is insensitivity to the values of knowledge, and argue that this marks the difference between the classical conception and the romantic one. I conclude with some loose considerations about stupidity in contemporary philosophical productions.
