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Single Idea 7975
[filed under theme 2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 5. Objectivity
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Full Idea
The task of philosophy is to unmask the illusion of objective reality - a trap that is, in a sense, laid for us by nature.
Gist of Idea
The task of philosophy is to unmask the illusion of objective reality
Source
Jean Baudrillard (The Intelligence of Evil [2004], p. 40)
Book Ref
Baudrillard,Jean: 'The Intelligence of Evil or The Lucidity Pact' [Berg 2005], p.40
A Reaction
There is a vast gap between this and the Lockean view (Idea 7653) that philosophers are there to help reveal reality, probably via science. I retain the Enlightenment faith that there is a reality to be found. Baudrillard must be taken seriously, though.
Related Idea
Idea 7653
I am just an under-labourer, clearing the ground in preparation for knowledge [Locke]
The
16 ideas
from Jean Baudrillard
7974
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Without God we faced reality: what do we face without reality?
[Baudrillard]
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7973
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There is no longer anything on which there is nothing to say
[Baudrillard]
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7975
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The task of philosophy is to unmask the illusion of objective reality
[Baudrillard]
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7976
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People like democracy because it means they can avoid power
[Baudrillard]
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7977
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Only in the last 200 years have people demanded the democratic privilege of being individuals
[Baudrillard]
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7978
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There is no need to involve the idea of free will to make choices about one's life
[Baudrillard]
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7979
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The arrival of the news media brought history to an end
[Baudrillard]
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7980
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In modern times, being useless is the essential aesthetic ingredient for an object
[Baudrillard]
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7981
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Whole populations are terrorist threats to authorities, who unite against them
[Baudrillard]
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7982
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Instead of thesis and antithesis leading to synthesis, they now cancel out, and the conflict is levelled
[Baudrillard]
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7983
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Good versus evil has been banefully reduced to happiness versus misfortune
[Baudrillard]
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7984
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Suicide is ascribed to depression, with the originality of the act of will ignored
[Baudrillard]
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7985
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Pascal says secular life is acceptable, but more fun with the hypothesis of God
[Baudrillard]
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7986
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Drunken boat pilots are less likely to collide than clearly focused ones
[Baudrillard]
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7987
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Nothing is true, but everything is exact
[Baudrillard]
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6841
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Some continental philosophers are relativists - Baudrillard, for example
[Baudrillard, by Critchley]
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