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In: What Was Deconstruction?  — view comment
Okay.
June 07, 2022 at 00:37
In: What Was Deconstruction?  — view comment
Derrida's aesthetics are the sublime, like Kant. A vast unknowable which we know is there.
June 07, 2022 at 00:30
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The text.
June 07, 2022 at 00:29
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"Derrida insisted that he is not a skeptic." Yes, and I do not agree.
June 07, 2022 at 00:19
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Indeed.
June 06, 2022 at 22:55
In: To What Extent Can Metaphysics Be Eliminated From Philosophy?  — view comment
Indeed.
June 06, 2022 at 22:44
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Many read the section "Absolute Knowing" in the Phenomenology as saying dialectical history comes to an end. Hegel is criticizing subjectivity and say...
June 06, 2022 at 22:43
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See, Hegel is a concrete thinker. Many do not get that. So I get the idea criticizing dialectic, but in the end, Hegel means nothingness, or an irredu...
June 06, 2022 at 22:30
In: What Was Deconstruction?  — view comment
The concept of otherness ( "differance") came from Hegel which influenced Levi-Strauss and Saussure. Kojeve's works on Hegel were very influential.
June 06, 2022 at 22:18
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Derrida is a Kantian.
June 06, 2022 at 22:09
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Skeptics posit a totality which cannot be had. Platonism. The real object cannot be conceived. I am not a skepic.
June 06, 2022 at 21:59
In: Has every fruitful avenue of philosophy been explored/talked about already?  — view comment
They are ways people think about the world.
June 06, 2022 at 21:52
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Fair assessment. In the end, I see Derrida as a skeptic. Probably his most accessible essay is, "Differance."
June 06, 2022 at 21:28
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I read some Derrida in grad school. There was a Heidegger professor who occasionally gave a Derrida class.
June 06, 2022 at 21:10
In: Has every fruitful avenue of philosophy been explored/talked about already?  — view comment
huh?
June 06, 2022 at 21:08
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Who are these "some?"
June 06, 2022 at 21:08
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I do not think Derrida or deconstruction is much a topic in US philosophy departments. I mean, it never really was--mostly in comparative literature d...
June 06, 2022 at 21:07
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I don't think it is a live topic anymore.
June 06, 2022 at 21:03
In: Has every fruitful avenue of philosophy been explored/talked about already?  — view comment
Russell credits Leibniz with inventing mathematical logic. Leibniz talked about the universe itself being a computer.
June 06, 2022 at 20:56
In: Has every fruitful avenue of philosophy been explored/talked about already?  — view comment
Seems to be verbatim from Plato.
June 06, 2022 at 20:48
In: Has every fruitful avenue of philosophy been explored/talked about already?  — view comment
He is citing Plato. There would be no need to do philosophy if we were gods.
June 06, 2022 at 20:46
In: Has every fruitful avenue of philosophy been explored/talked about already?  — view comment
Socrates/Plato.
June 06, 2022 at 20:12
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Yes, why philosophy is not science.
June 06, 2022 at 20:02
In: Has every fruitful avenue of philosophy been explored/talked about already?  — view comment
Pretty much how Aristotle defines it as "first philosophy."
June 06, 2022 at 20:02
In: Has every fruitful avenue of philosophy been explored/talked about already?  — view comment
I never heard that before. Please explain.
June 06, 2022 at 19:55
In: Has every fruitful avenue of philosophy been explored/talked about already?  — view comment
Science describes physical particles. Philosophy is not limited by physicality.
June 06, 2022 at 19:50
In: To What Extent Can Metaphysics Be Eliminated From Philosophy?  — view comment
Agree.
June 06, 2022 at 19:43
In: Has every fruitful avenue of philosophy been explored/talked about already?  — view comment
The very notion seems absurd.
June 06, 2022 at 19:42
In: Has every fruitful avenue of philosophy been explored/talked about already?  — view comment
Yes. But philosophy is not science.
June 06, 2022 at 19:41
In: Has every fruitful avenue of philosophy been explored/talked about already?  — view comment
Contemporary philosophers debate whether there is progress in philosophy. My first answer is no, because there does not need to be progress. Qualified...
June 06, 2022 at 19:33
In: Has every fruitful avenue of philosophy been explored/talked about already?  — view comment
No.
June 06, 2022 at 18:59
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Yes, he reads Derrida from the position of literary criticism.
June 06, 2022 at 18:58
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The author: "Timothy Brennan is a professor in the humanities at the University of Minnesota." So, he is not a philosopher.
June 06, 2022 at 17:24
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Well, one could science only is true in labs or mathematics.
June 06, 2022 at 17:18
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Derrida wrote an article on Aristotle, called "White Mythology." Been a while since I studied it and do not remember what he said about Aristotle.
June 06, 2022 at 16:58
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No. Based on observing others and people who seem to be happy.
June 06, 2022 at 16:49
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This is not true.
June 06, 2022 at 16:49
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I did not say you were quoting.
June 06, 2022 at 16:48
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To use another method that is better.
June 06, 2022 at 14:25
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I've read Aristotle and never saw him give such a definition. Can you refer to something in his texts to support that?
June 06, 2022 at 14:23
In: To What Extent Can Metaphysics Be Eliminated From Philosophy?  — view comment
Yes. Newton's determinism was based on God as the supreme lawgiver.
June 06, 2022 at 14:08
In: Antinatalism and the harmfulness of death  — view comment
Death is part of nature. Like being born or eating food.
June 06, 2022 at 14:05
In: The “hard problem” of suffering  — view comment
Thank you for explaining. You were referring to death, not other kinds of suffering.
June 05, 2022 at 22:04
In: The “hard problem” of suffering  — view comment
Why do you feel connected?
June 05, 2022 at 21:54
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Yes, indeed. Just physics.
June 05, 2022 at 19:12
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I do not think it is. And quantum mechanics shows why it is false.
June 05, 2022 at 19:01
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Yes, deterministic science. Never proven, just believed.
June 05, 2022 at 18:55
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Yes. Why some classify him as post structuralist.
June 05, 2022 at 18:33
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It is. But a lot of philosophers want to be revolutionaries.
June 05, 2022 at 18:29
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Text was also literal, a physical text.
June 05, 2022 at 17:11
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