I think both mind/body are incommensurate descriptions that vie for the title of truth of ontology of objects. We aren’t finished with demythologizing our ideas, and by getting rid of the Cartesian self we are de-divinizing philosophy by disposing an underlying substantial metaphysical center that grounds existence. ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Posts Tagged ‘Rorty’
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Skepticism of the transcendence of language
by Awet on July 8, 2011 at 11:00 pmPosted In: Philosophy
I view the transcendent concept as the ultimate armchair philosopher’s method of condescending to natural sciences and history and it began with Kant’s conditions of possibility. Whereas physics & history find conditions for the existence of entities by locating temporally prior entities, philosophy achieves such autonomy only as long it escapes time. ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
└ Tags: analytic philosophy, Cioran, Kant, language, Nietzsche, philosophy, Plato, Rorty, Wittgenstein
Irony and philosophy as remedy for politics
by Awet on October 27, 2010 at 4:04 pmPosted In: Philosophy
First, go read the blog titled “Philosophy and Remedy” @ thekindlyones.org. I originally posted the following blog in the comments section.
If this blog relies on a distinction between the public n private role of the intellectual then I think irony can serve as the secret that avoids merging them both and forcing the philosopher to act as a politician every time he speaks.
The dream of a single life that fuses the private and the public sphere dates back to Plato’s efforts to answer why one should be just and Christianity’s moral imperative that one can reach self-realization through serving others. All of these relies on the assumption of a common human nature, that both private life and human solidarity are one and same. ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Over the years of studying philosophy, I’ve seen quite a number of classifications that categorize them. I’ve come across an interesting one in Rorty’s seminal Philosophy & the Mirror of Nature, in which he distinguishes systematic and edifying philosophers. The distinction founders on those whose work is constructive and those that are reactive. ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Reading Rortys Philosophy & Mirror of Nature
by Awet on July 5, 2010 at 6:47 amPosted In: History of Ideas, Philosophy
I’m still here in Italy on vacation, but I’ve kept on reading PaMoN, and currently I am on Part II (Theory of Knowledge).
Before we get into the nitty gritty, i have something to admit. For years ive always admired Rorty, and ive read his later works (Consequences of Pragmatism, several essays from Philosophical Papers, the later collected works) in order to combat those blinkered Platonists and recalcitrant analytical philosophers on the internet. It was too much fun slapping them silly for clinging on to outdated and outworn models of philosophy, when the game has obviously passed them by! But I never read his magnus opus, PMoN, till now. Yeah, yeah. ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
What distinguishes a good critic from the rest of the herd? I want to write a bit about this nugget offered by Richard Rorty in his article, Posties, that outlined three types of critics: ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Reconstructing philosophy
by Awet on May 31, 2005 at 3:26 pmPosted In: History of Ideas, Philosophy
This blog is a summary of Rorty’s salient points in his essay, The Historiography of Philosophy.
There are several ways to reconstruct the writings of philosophers: the rational, the historical, and the holistic. The paradigmatic examples are, respectively; P. F. Strawson of Kant, John Dunn’s of Locke, and Heidegger’s Question of Being. ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
