2001 | Continental Philosophy - V. Short Intro |
p.31 | 7075 | To meet the division in our life, try the Subject, Nature, Spirit, Will, Power, Praxis, Unconscious, or Being |
8857 | p.6 | 7067 | Food first, then ethics |
Ch.1 | p.7 | 7068 | If infatuation with science leads to bad scientism, its rejection leads to obscurantism |
Ch.2 | p.16 | 7069 | The French keep returning, to Hegel or Nietzsche or Marx |
2001 | Interview with Baggini and Stangroom |
p.187 | p.187 | 6835 | German idealism aimed to find a unifying principle for Kant's various dualisms |
p.188 | p.188 | 6836 | Continental philosophy fights the threatened nihilism in the critique of reason |
p.188 | p.188 | 6837 | Since Hegel, continental philosophy has been linked with social and historical enquiry. |
p.189 | p.189 | 6838 | Continental philosophy is based on critique, praxis and emancipation |
p.193 | p.193 | 6843 | Perceiving meaninglessness is an achievement, which can transform daily life |
p.196 | p.196 | 6844 | Scientism is the view that everything can be explained causally through scientific method |
p.197 | p.197 | 6845 | Continental philosophy has a bad tendency to offer 'one big thing' to explain everything |
p.198 | p.198 | 6846 | Phenomenology is a technique of redescription which clarifies our social world |
p.198 | p.198 | 6847 | Humour can give a phenomenological account of existence, and point to change |
p.198 | p.198 | 6848 | Humour is practically enacted philosophy |
2012 | Impossible Objects: interviews |
2 | p.31 | 20446 | Philosophy begins in disappointment, notably in religion and politics |
2 | p.41 | 20447 | The problems is not justifying ethics, but motivating it. Why should a self seek its good? |
2 | p.44 | 20449 | Science gives us an excessively theoretical view of life |
2 | p.44 | 20448 | Phenomenology uncovers and redescribes the pre-theoretical layer of life |
3 | p.50 | 20450 | The state, law, bureaucracy and capital are limitations on life, so I prefer federalist anarchism |
3 | p.51 | 20451 | Belief that humans are wicked leads to authoritarian politics |
3 | p.55 | 20452 | Anarchism used to be libertarian (especially for sexuality), but now concerns responsibility |
6 | p.100 | 20454 | Wallace Stevens is the greatest philosophical poet of the twentieth century in English |
6 | p.110 | 20455 | Philosophy really got started as the rival mode of discourse to tragedy |
8 | p.129 | 20456 | Interesting art is always organised around ethical demands |