FeralAspie wrote:
So my question is - Given that an Aspergers mind is 'wired' differently from NTs does that mean that some philosophies are simply going to be incompatible on a practical level regardless of how 'correct' they may appear at an intellectual level?
Good question. I don't find philosophy dealing with metaphysics or epistemology very useful at all-just dubious pseudo-religious speculation made redundant by science. Sticking to philosophy dealing with human behavior ('practical level')-psychology, ethics, politics:
Schopenhauer and Cioran are both very AS-type philosophers. Their advice seems less targeted towards NTs than on living with AS in an NT world. The Brit. empirical tradition (Locke, Smith, Hume, Mill, down to B. Russell and David Stove) seems much closer to regular NT functioning. Some of the ancient philosophical schools (Stoicism, Epicureanism) have an Aspie-ish quality. Was autism more common then?
