Ask a Philosopher!

[Gary Childress]

Kant, and particularly the Critique of Pure Reason.

Really? Did he write any books or articles in philosophy journals contributing to Kant scholarship? The reason I ask is that I have a volume of essays by different authors titled: Kant's Critique of Pure Reason.

 

[Japanrocks12]

Did Quine conclusively nail the analytic/synthetic truth distinction discourse with Two Dogmas of Empiricism or is there some other accepted scholarship and debate about this issue?

Are the logical positivists going strong today?

 

[Taliesin]

Really? Did he write any books or articles in philosophy journals contributing to Kant scholarship? The reason I ask is that I have a volume of essays by different authors titled: Kant's Critique of Pure Reason.

Nothing significant that I know of.

 

[Gary Childress]

Nothing significant that I know of.

Well I would probably admire him just by virtue of having been a philosophy professor. I looked up to all my philosophy professors when I was in college. I enjoyed their classes and liked the fact that they were, as a group, generally the most upon minded instructors in the school (open minded without being empty minded).

 

[ParkCungHee]

Do philosophers today pay a lot of attention to Hegelianism?
Or is he out of fashion now?
I'm just asking because in all the philosophy courses I've taken I've yet to see him discussed.

 

[Shylock]

What's the difference between something (like a book, a work of art, or a movie) that is entertaining and something that is aesthetically pleasing?

 

[Gary Childress]

Do philosophers today pay a lot of attention to Hegelianism?
Or is he out of fashion now?
I'm just asking because in all the philosophy courses I've taken I've yet to see him discussed.

I remember one of Hegel's buz phrases being "The Real is Rational". I have, since hearing that phrase attributed to him (as well as from reading other bits of his thought), kind of thought of him as the ultimate detached observer. It is perhaps not unremarkable that Marx started out as a "young Hegelian." Wasn't it Marx's words more or less that the object of philosophy was not to simply observe the world but change it for the better? I can sort of see (albeit from what little I understand of Hegel) how someone who studied Hegel in depth probably ended up a radical revolutionary.

 

[pau17]

I remember one of Hegel's buz phrases being "The Real is Rational". I have, since hearing that phrase attributed to him (as well as from reading other bits of his thought), kind of thought of him as the ultimate detached observer. It is perhaps not unremarkable that Marx started out as a "young Hegelian." Wasn't it Marx's words more or less that the object of philosophy was not to simply observe the world but change it for the better? I can sort of see (albeit from what little I understand of Hegel) how someone who studied Hegel in depth probably ended up a radical revolutionary.

The "real" being "rational," it would be rational to be conservative, wouldn't it? Funny how Hegel was a conservative Lutheran by our standards...but zomg Marxism! Oh, Nazism is also Hegel's fault too!

Anyway, some of the Nazis liked Nietzsche and tried to use him for their purposes as well, doesn't mean he was what they were.

 

[Gary Childress]

The "real" being "rational," it would be rational to be conservative, wouldn't it? Funny how Hegel was a conservative Lutheran by our standards...but zomg Marxism! Oh, Nazism is also Hegel's fault too!

Anyway, some of the Nazis liked Nietzsche and tried to use him for their purposes as well, doesn't mean he was what they were.

I'm not saying Marxism is the "fault" of Hegel if that's what you mean, only that I can see where Marx, being a kind of an antipode of Hegel, might have reacted to Hegel's detachment with his own idea that philosophy should be engaged with the world, as it were.

I also took a course on Nietzsche which taught that Nietzsche was misinterpreted by the Nazis as was Heidegger.

 

[Thoughtful Thug]

Fifty!

Sup, son.

I want to axe yo a question homey. What idiosyncracies that u have in common with famous dead philosophers. Not saying they're zombies...

 

[Perfection]

Who is the best nondead philosopher, and why? (besides Fifty)

 

[Godwynn]

Who is the best nondead philosopher, and why? (besides Fifty)

Cartesian_Fart

 

[Thoughtful Thug]

I like zombie movies. Of course only George Romero and the Resident Evil series. I guess you can say all of Romero movies is a series of comments about society or sumthin.

I do have one more question. What do you think about the reading idler? You know? The guy who ruin in the long run by not reading properly, and not thinking too?

 

[Orange Seeds]

Do philosophers today pay a lot of attention to Hegelianism?
Or is he out of fashion now?
I'm just asking because in all the philosophy courses I've taken I've yet to see him discussed.

There are two classes that Hegel will come up: English and History. Last summer i read his Outlines for the Philosophy of right and it was lacking in relevance to anything. It was full of the typical 'rationality' that makes up what we often call the continentals.

Almost entirely synthetic and ethno-centric, do not bother.

 

[Thoughtful Thug]

There are two classes that Hegel will come up: English and History. Last summer i read his Outlines for the Philosophy of right and it was lacking in relevance to anything. It was full of the typical 'rationality' that makes up what we often call the continentals.

Almost entirely synthetic and ethno-centric, do not bother.

What do you mean by "we"? And another - what do mean by "continentals"?

 

[Thoughtful Thug]

Who is the best nondead philosopher, and why? (besides Fifty)

That is a good question. and very hard to make a case since Fifty is improving by his age.

but... can he get closer to the Truth without fading away by arguing against phantoms?

 

[Thoughtful Thug]

I had a dream. Very vivid.

Lady Philosophy was her name.

She told me that you will find me.

later I found out... and surprise ... she was not wisdom, but love.


The question: am I being sincere?

 

[Orange Seeds]

What do you mean by "we"? And another - what do mean by "continentals"?

Continentals
We, or maybe even We

 

[Thoughtful Thug]

Continentals
We, or maybe even We

What about in your own words? Why wiki links?

 

[Orange Seeds]

What about in your own words? Why wiki links?

Several reasons:

1. It is far more convenient to post a link
2. i do not feel that i can do an adequate job of describing what continentalism is; particularly not in the brief amount of time i have allotted to peruse this forum.
3. i find the links poetic and amusing
4. I have to post a report on a primary source written by Matteo Ricci by Tuesday, and would rather use my strained intellectual capacities for class.