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That's a refreshing take. I tried real hard to understand what some continental philosophers, such as Latour, Deleuze, and Žižek are on about, giving some of t
by smokel 3y ago
That's a refreshing take.
I tried real hard to understand what some continental philosophers, such as Latour, Deleuze, and Žižek are on about, giving some of their texts quite some benefit of the doubt. After about ten years of doing so, I am more and more returning to my previous opinion that some of these just like to talk, and even though they have lots to say, they say so much, that I still have to do all the actual philosophizing myself.
- salawat 3y agoThe Ur subject of philosophy is not the writing and reading of philosophy, but to exercise the mind in coming to grips with that which we have no conception of yet. Language is it's medium, and the IO is those texts. However the nugget at the center is figuring out that magic blackbox that lets you take all the dead ends in those texts and divine a reasonable guiding principle or recognition of an end to the space of tread discourse. To that end, you have to approach philosophical reading with a degree of hypothetical detachment that not everyone is immediately comfortable with.
- crooked-v 3y agoThe Tao Te Ching opens with almost exactly that subject... though, of course, it also makes you think about it a while first to understand what it's getting at.
- runlaszlorun 3y agoAha, nice connection! I'm a fan of the Tao Te Ching but never would've caught that one my own. Thx!
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- Karrot_Kream 3y agoPhilosophy is often called the "Great Conversation" because, as you say, a lot of it is just people "saying things". Some of these things are incredibly insightful others are just babbling, the ones that make it into books generally have a higher ratio of insight to babble. You need to read philosophy, especially continental philosophy, with a critical eye. If you aren't chewing on and contemplating (and calling "bullshit") on philosophy as you read it, you aren't getting out of it what you should.
- Dylan16807 3y agoIt's one thing to disagree, but if there's a bunch of content-free words that's just bad writing.