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Single Idea 8223

[filed under theme 1. Philosophy / H. Continental Philosophy / 1. Continental Philosophy ]

Full Idea

Those who criticise without creating, those who are content to defend the vanished concept without being able to give it the forces it needs to return to life, are the plague of philosophy.

Gist of Idea

The plague of philosophy is those who criticise without creating, and defend dead concepts

Source

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

Book Ref

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

A Reaction

This seems to be the continental view of analytical philosophy, that it is pathetically conservative. I would offer MacIntyre as a response, who gives a beautiful analysis of why the super-modern view is dead. The French are hopelessly romantic.

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]