Sellars quote Quotes Moral progress and philosophy
You can do this in two ways, cutting apart (negative) or positive (stitching together)
The very best philosophers peak at 60 Ideas (blog post), because the positive project is more creditworthy. But a fair amount of philosophers died young and did a lot. Nietzsche, Ramsey, Wittgenstein, Gareth Evans are all somehow doing the negative thing. Somehow.
You couldn’t have a young Hegel, or Kant, or Spinoza, or Brandom, or other 20th century figures etc.
This double function being achieved at different ages seems to stand in contrast to the single peak observed in other fields Ideas. What does this say about the goals of the different fields