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Single Idea 8243

[filed under theme 28. God / C. Attitudes to God / 5. Atheism ]

Full Idea

It is amazing that so many philosophers take the death of God as tragic. Atheism is not a drama, but the philosopher's serenity and philosophy's achievement.

Gist of Idea

Atheism is the philosopher's serenity, and philosophy's achievement

Source

G Deleuze / F Guattari (What is Philosophy? [1991], 1.4)

Book Ref

Deleuze/Guattari: 'What is Philosophy?' [Verso 1994], p.92

A Reaction

It seems to me that it is the late nineteenth and early twentieth century that feels the death of God as a tragedy. Modern Anglo-American philosophers are mostly pretty serene on the subject, unless, like Dennett, they go on the offensive.

The 15 ideas from G Deleuze / F Guattari

21906 Political theory should not focus on the state or economy, but on the small scale of power [Deleuze/Guattari, by May]
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]