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Single Idea 7075
[filed under theme 1. Philosophy / H. Continental Philosophy / 1. Continental Philosophy
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Full Idea
Against the Kantian division of a priori and empirical, Fichte offered activity of the subject, Schelling offered natural force, Hegel offered Spirit, Schopenhauer the Will, Nietzsche power, Marx praxis, Freud the unconscious, and Heidegger offered Being.
Clarification
'Praxis' is the priority of action over theory
Gist of Idea
To meet the division in our life, try the Subject, Nature, Spirit, Will, Power, Praxis, Unconscious, or Being
Source
Simon Critchley (Continental Philosophy - V. Short Intro [2001])
Book Ref
Critchley,Simon: 'Continental Philosophy - Very Short Intro' [OUP 2001], p.31
A Reaction
The whole of Continental Philosophy summarised in a sentence. Fichte and Schopenhauer seem to point to existentialism, Schelling gives evolutionary teleology, Marx abandons philosophy, the others are up the creek.
The
19 ideas
with the same theme
[key shared characteristics of continental modern philosophy]:
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21984
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We must break up the rigidity that our understanding has imposed
[Hegel]
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22082
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Truth does not appear by asserting reasons and then counter-reasons
[Hegel]
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6904
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Modern philosophy begins with Descartes' abstraction from sensation and matter
[Feuerbach]
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6931
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Empiricism is right about ideas, but forgets man himself as one of our objects
[Feuerbach]
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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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21901
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'Difference' refers to that which eludes capture
[Deleuze, by May]
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7423
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Philosophy and politics are fundamentally linked
[Foucault]
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6841
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Some continental philosophers are relativists - Baudrillard, for example
[Baudrillard, by Critchley]
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8223
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The plague of philosophy is those who criticise without creating, and defend dead concepts
[Deleuze/Guattari]
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8988
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Two marxist ideas have dominated in France: base and superstructure, and ideology
[Scruton]
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7075
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To meet the division in our life, try the Subject, Nature, Spirit, Will, Power, Praxis, Unconscious, or Being
[Critchley]
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7069
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The French keep returning, to Hegel or Nietzsche or Marx
[Critchley]
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6835
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German idealism aimed to find a unifying principle for Kant's various dualisms
[Critchley]
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6836
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Continental philosophy fights the threatened nihilism in the critique of reason
[Critchley]
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6837
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Since Hegel, continental philosophy has been linked with social and historical enquiry.
[Critchley]
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6838
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Continental philosophy is based on critique, praxis and emancipation
[Critchley]
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6845
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Continental philosophy has a bad tendency to offer 'one big thing' to explain everything
[Critchley]
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6859
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Analytic philosophy has much higher standards of thinking than continental philosophy
[Williamson]
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21900
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Deleuze relies on Spinoza (immanence), Bergson (duration), and difference (Nietzsche)
[May]
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