VI. Conclusion 178 PART II SUGGESTIONS CHAPTER I SOLUTIONS AND DISSOLUTIONS I. The problem 185 II. “Solutions” 190 1. Feminism 190 2. Socialism 194 3. Eugenics 198 4. Anarchism 200 5. Individualism 202 6. Individualism again 202 III. Dissolutions 205 CHAPTER II THE RECONSTRUCTIVE FUNCTION OF PHILOSOPHY I. Epistemologs 214 II. Philosophy as control 218 III. Philosophy as mediator between science and statesmanship 222 CHAPTER III ORGANIZED INTELLIGENCE I. The need 227 II. The organization of intelligence 230 III. Information as panacea 234 IV. Sex, art, and play in social reconstruction 240 V. Education 246 CHAPTER IV THE READER SPEAKS I. The democratization of aristocracy 251 II. The professor as Buridan’s ass 255 III. Is information wanted? 257 IV. Finding Mæcenas 261 V. The chance of philosophy 264 CONCLUSION 268 PART I HISTORICAL APPROACH PHILOSOPHY AND THE SOCIAL PROBLEM INTRODUCTION The purpose of this essay is to show: first, that the social problem has been the basic concern of many of the greater philosophers; second, that an approach to the social problem through philosophy is the first condition of even a moderately successful treatment of this problem; and third, that an approach to philosophy through the social problem is indispensable to the revitalization of philosophy. By “philosophy” we shall understand a study of experience as a whole, or of a portion of experience in relation to the whole.