Ideas of Simon Critchley, by Theme

[British, fl. 1997, Prof at University of Essex; at Collège Internationale de Philosophie, Paris; New School Univ, NY]

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1. Philosophy / C. History of Philosophy / 2. Ancient Philosophy / b. Pre-Socratic philosophy
20455 Philosophy really got started as the rival mode of discourse to tragedy
1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / d. Philosophy as puzzles
20446 Philosophy begins in disappointment, notably in religion and politics
1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 8. Humour
6848 Humour is practically enacted philosophy
6847 Humour can give a phenomenological account of existence, and point to change
1. Philosophy / G. Scientific Philosophy / 3. Scientism
7068 If infatuation with science leads to bad scientism, its rejection leads to obscurantism
6844 Scientism is the view that everything can be explained causally through scientific method
20449 Science gives us an excessively theoretical view of life
1. Philosophy / H. Continental Philosophy / 1. Continental Philosophy
7075 To meet the division in our life, try the Subject, Nature, Spirit, Will, Power, Praxis, Unconscious, or Being
7069 The French keep returning, to Hegel or Nietzsche or Marx
6835 German idealism aimed to find a unifying principle for Kant's various dualisms
6836 Continental philosophy fights the threatened nihilism in the critique of reason
6837 Since Hegel, continental philosophy has been linked with social and historical enquiry.
6838 Continental philosophy is based on critique, praxis and emancipation
6845 Continental philosophy has a bad tendency to offer 'one big thing' to explain everything
1. Philosophy / H. Continental Philosophy / 2. Phenomenology
6846 Phenomenology is a technique of redescription which clarifies our social world
20448 Phenomenology uncovers and redescribes the pre-theoretical layer of life
21. Aesthetics / B. Nature of Art / 8. The Arts / b. Literature
20454 Wallace Stevens is the greatest philosophical poet of the twentieth century in English
21. Aesthetics / C. Artistic Issues / 7. Art and Morality
20456 Interesting art is always organised around ethical demands
22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / d. Ethical theory
20447 The problems is not justifying ethics, but motivating it. Why should a self seek its good?
22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / f. Ultimate value
7067 Food first, then ethics
23. Ethics / F. Existentialism / 2. Nihilism
6843 Perceiving meaninglessness is an achievement, which can transform daily life
24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 2. Anarchism
20452 Anarchism used to be libertarian (especially for sexuality), but now concerns responsibility
20450 The state, law, bureaucracy and capital are limitations on life, so I prefer federalist anarchism
24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 3. Conservatism
20451 Belief that humans are wicked leads to authoritarian politics