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Full Idea
Philosophy can no longer play its traditional roles, giving foundations to science, or constructing general ontology. It should simply fulfil its task of transcendental questioning.
Gist of Idea
Philosophy is transcendental questioning (not supporting science or constructing ontology)
Source
Slavoj Zizek (Conversations, with Glyn Daly [2004], §2)
Book Ref
Zizek,Slavoj: 'Conversations with Zizek (with G.Daly)' [Polity 2004], p.53
A Reaction
I remain unsure what is being recommended, unless it is for philosophy to start asking questions just at the point where everyone else gives up.
| 370 | Philosophy is a purification of the soul ready for the afterlife [Plato] |
| 14523 | We should come to philosophy free from any taint of culture [Epicurus] |
| 18450 | Philosophy has its own mode of death, by separating soul from body [Porphyry] |
| 19073 | True philosophy aims at absolute unity, while our understanding sees only separation [Hegel] |
| 21776 | Philosophy aims to reveal the necessity and rationality of the categories of nature and spirit [Hegel, by Houlgate] |
| 6928 | Only that which can be an object of religion is an object of philosophy [Feuerbach] |
| 15586 | When philosophy makes itself intelligible, it commits suicide [Heidegger] |
| 15585 | Later Heidegger sees philosophy as more like poetry than like science [Heidegger, by Polt] |
| 23885 | Philosophy aims to change the soul, not to accumulate knowledge [Weil] |
| 3241 | It seems mad, but the aim of philosophy is to climb outside of our own minds [Nagel] |
| 1595 | Philosophy aims to satisfy the chief human desire - the articulation of beauty itself [Roochnik] |
| 9779 | Philosophy is transcendental questioning (not supporting science or constructing ontology) [Zizek] |