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Single Idea 12325

[filed under theme 1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 7. Against Metaphysics ]

Full Idea

Philosophy has been released from, even relieved of, physics, cosmology, and politics, as well as many other things. It is important for it to be released from ontology per se.

Gist of Idea

Philosophy has been relieved of physics, cosmology, politics, and now must give up ontology

Source

Alain Badiou (Briefings on Existence [1998], 3)

Book Ref

Badiou,Alain: 'Briefings on Existence', ed/tr. Madarsz,Norman [SUNY 2006], p.59

A Reaction

A startling proposal, for anyone who thought that ontology was First Philosophy. Badiou wants to hand ontology over to mathematicians, but I am unclear what remains for the philosophers to do.

The 14 ideas with the same theme [rejections of metaphysics as a worthwhile activity]:

12767 Kant exposed the illusions of reason in the Transcendental Dialectic [Kant, by Fraassen]
3301 On the continent it is generally believed that metaphysics died with Hegel [Benardete,JA on Hegel]
14767 The demonstrations of the metaphysicians are all moonshine [Peirce]
14860 Kant has undermined our belief in metaphysics [Nietzsche]
6864 Metaphysics is finding bad reasons for instinctive beliefs [Bradley]
13737 The empiricist says that metaphysics is meaningless, rather than false [Schlick]
16252 Metaphysics uses empty words, or just produces pseudo-statements [Carnap]
7919 Humeans rejected the a priori synthetic, and so rejected even Kantian metaphysics [Ayer, by Macdonald,C]
12325 Philosophy has been relieved of physics, cosmology, politics, and now must give up ontology [Badiou]
15054 'Quietist' says abandon metaphysics because answers are unattainable (as in Kant's noumenon) [Fine,K]
17713 After 1903, Husserl avoids metaphysical commitments [Mares]
16276 Wide metaphysical possibility may reduce metaphysics to analysis of fantasies [Maudlin]
16413 Science has discovered properties of things, so there are properties - so who needs metaphysics? [Hofweber]
21666 'Fundamentality' is either a superficial idea, or much too obscure [Hofweber]