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Single Idea 8222

[filed under theme 14. Science / B. Scientific Theories / 4. Paradigm ]

Full Idea

If one concept is 'better' than an earlier one, it is because it makes us aware of new variations and unknown resonances, it carries out unforeseen cuttings-out, it brings forth an Event that surveys (survole) us.

Gist of Idea

Concepts are superior because they make us more aware, and change our thinking

Source

G Deleuze / F Guattari (What is Philosophy? [1991], 1.1)

Book Ref

Deleuze/Guattari: 'What is Philosophy?' [Verso 1994], p.28

A Reaction

I don't get much of that, but it is certainly in tune with the Kuhn/Feyerabend idea that what science can generate is fresh visions, rather than precisely expanded truths. Personally I consider it dangerous nonsense, but I thought I ought to pass it on.

The 14 ideas from 'What is Philosophy?'

8217 Philosophy is a concept-creating discipline [Deleuze/Guattari]
8223 The plague of philosophy is those who criticise without creating, and defend dead concepts [Deleuze/Guattari]
8220 Philosophy is in a perpetual state of digression [Deleuze/Guattari]
8219 Logic has an infantile idea of philosophy [Deleuze/Guattari]
8221 We cannot judge the Cogito. Must we begin? Must we start from certainty? Can 'I' relate to thought? [Deleuze/Guattari]
8222 Concepts are superior because they make us more aware, and change our thinking [Deleuze/Guattari]
8218 Other people completely revise our perceptions, because they are possible worlds [Deleuze/Guattari]
8224 'Eris' is the divinity of conflict, the opposite of Philia, the god of friendship [Deleuze/Guattari]
8242 Philosophy aims at what is interesting, remarkable or important - not at knowledge or truth [Deleuze/Guattari]
8243 Atheism is the philosopher's serenity, and philosophy's achievement [Deleuze/Guattari]
8245 The logical attitude tries to turn concepts into functions, when they are really forms or forces [Deleuze/Guattari]
8247 Phenomenology needs art as logic needs science [Deleuze/Guattari]
8246 Logic hates philosophy, and wishes to supplant it [Deleuze/Guattari]
8248 Phenomenology says thought is part of the world [Deleuze/Guattari]