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Philosophy is difficult because it tries not to rely on common knowledge and common sense. So it's difficult to access.
by thanatropism 9y ago
Philosophy is difficult because it tries not to rely on common knowledge and common sense. So it's difficult to access.
- jancsika 9y agoThat's not a necessary property of philosophical writing, as evidenced by the writing of Hume, Locke, Descartes, Peter Singer, and many others.
- thanatropism 9y agoSometimes it's easier to fill in the blanks with commonsense ideas, yes. Much philosophy is deliberately obscure precisely to avoid that. Deleuze (or Leibniz, Nietzsche, Heidegger...) are not out to persuade you of any particularly easily-digestible position. Their whole project is to make you think. Thinking is not comfortable, I know.
- jancsika 9y ago> Deleuze (or Leibniz, Nietzsche, Heidegger...) are not out to persuade you of any particularly easily-digestible position. I'm not asking about the writing of Neitzshe, Heidegger, nor Leibniz. There was a claim that Deleuze's writing is difficult, which I assume to have meant on top of the normal difficulties of working out the cogency of philosophical arguments. Otherwise the response would have been "philosophy is difficult," rather than referring specifically to "Deleuze's world."
- thanatropism 9y agoWell, Deleuze uses words that sound exciting and already have commonsense language connotations (rhizomes! lines of flight! war machines!). This has the effect of attracting intellectually curious persons but also putting some intellectually mature people off. Then, Deleuze is misused a lot. But so is quantum theory.