[Bups-dis] Metaphilosophy and inappropriateness

[pmaniati]

Andrew wrote:

³It might be the case that you *as a friend* should take appropriateness
into account and as such keep quiet about your solution to the problem of
evil - but should you refrain from, say, publishing your account to spare
your friends feelings? I think not - as a philosopher appropriateness
shouldn't play an important factor even though it may do as a friend or
whatever.²


Philosophers and friends are relatives. It follows then that what is
appropriate for the former is appropriate for the latter.

The problem here is not whether you tell your grieving  friend about "your
solution of the problem of evil" but rather when is the appropriate time and
in what manner you convey your thoughts to him/her on the subject.

Peter