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Single Idea 21904
[filed under theme 7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / i. Deflating being
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Full Idea
In Deleuze, Being is not a puzzle to be solved but a problem to be engaged. It is to be engaged by a thought that moves as comfortably among problems as it does among solutions, as fluidly among differences as it does among identities.
Gist of Idea
Being is a problem to be engaged, not solved, and needs a new mode of thinking
Source
report of Gilles Deleuze (Difference and Repetition [1968]) by Todd May - Gilles Deleuze 4.01
Book Ref
May,Todd: 'Gilles Deleuze' [CUP 2006], p.116
A Reaction
This sounds like what I've always known as 'negative capability' (thanks to Keats). Is philosophy just a hobby, like playing darts? It seems that the aim of the process is 'liberation', about which I would like to know more.
The
22 ideas
from Gilles Deleuze
21844
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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?
[Deleuze]
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21845
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Philosophy aims to become the official language, supporting orthodoxy and the state
[Deleuze]
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21839
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When I meet objections I just move on; they never contribute anything
[Deleuze]
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21841
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We must create new words, and treat them as normal, and as if designating real things.
[Deleuze]
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21842
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Don't assess ideas for truth or justice; look for another idea, and establish a relationship with it
[Deleuze]
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21838
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Before we seek solutions, it is important to invent problems
[Deleuze]
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21847
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Before Being there is politics
[Deleuze]
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21840
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A meeting of man and animal can be deterritorialization (like a wasp with an orchid)
[Deleuze]
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21843
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People consist of many undetermined lines, some rigid, some supple, some 'lines of flight'
[Deleuze]
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21849
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Thought should be thrown like a stone from a war-machine
[Deleuze]
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21850
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Dualisms can be undone from within, by tracing connections, and drawing them to a new path
[Deleuze]
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21848
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Some lines (of flight) are becomings which escape the system
[Deleuze]
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21907
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We don't want another new set of categories; we want a variety of flexible categories
[Deleuze, by May]
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21908
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Ontology can be continual creation, not to know being, but to probe the unknowable
[Deleuze]
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21903
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Ontology does not tell what there is; it is just a strange adventure
[Deleuze, by May]
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21904
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Being is a problem to be engaged, not solved, and needs a new mode of thinking
[Deleuze, by May]
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21901
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'Difference' refers to that which eludes capture
[Deleuze, by May]
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21902
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'Being' is univocal, but its subject matter is actually 'difference'
[Deleuze]
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21851
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The State requires self-preservation, but the war-machine desires destruction
[Deleuze]
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21852
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Nomads are the basis of history, and yet almost unknowable
[Deleuze]
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21853
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We are currently extending capitalism to the whole of society
[Deleuze]
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21899
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There is no being beyond becoming
[Deleuze]
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