Ideas from 'A Conversation: what is it? What is it for?' by Gilles Deleuze [1977], by Theme Structure

[found in 'Dialogues II' by Deleuze,Gilles [Continuum 2006,0-8264-9077-8]].

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1. Philosophy / C. History of Philosophy / 1. History of Philosophy

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The history of philosophy is an agent of power: how can you think if you haven't read the great names?

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 1. Philosophy

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Thought should be thrown like a stone from a war-machine

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / a. Philosophy as worldly

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Philosophy aims to become the official language, supporting orthodoxy and the state

1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 7. Limitations of Analysis

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When I meet objections I just move on; they never contribute anything

1. Philosophy / H. Continental Philosophy / 1. Continental Philosophy

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We must create new words, and treat them as normal, and as if designating real things.

2. Reason / C. Styles of Reason / 1. Dialectic

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Don't assess ideas for truth or justice; look for another idea, and establish a relationship with it

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Dualisms can be undone from within, by tracing connections, and drawing them to a new path

5. Theory of Logic / L. Paradox / 2. Aporiai

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Before we seek solutions, it is important to invent problems

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / i. Deflating being

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Before Being there is politics

15. Nature of Minds / A. Nature of Mind / 1. Mind / d. Location of mind

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A meeting of man and animal can be deterritorialization (like a wasp with an orchid)

16. Persons / E. Rejecting the Self / 1. Self as Indeterminate

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People consist of many undetermined lines, some rigid, some supple, some 'lines of flight'

25. Social Practice / A. Freedoms / 2. Freedom of belief

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Some lines (of flight) are becomings which escape the system