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Single Idea 6835
[filed under theme 1. Philosophy / H. Continental Philosophy / 1. Continental Philosophy
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Full Idea
In his Third Critique Kant established a series of dualisms (pure/practical reason, nature/freedom, epistemology/ethics) but failed to provide a unifying principle; German idealism can be seen as an attempt to provide this principle.
Gist of Idea
German idealism aimed to find a unifying principle for Kant's various dualisms
Source
Simon Critchley (Interview with Baggini and Stangroom [2001], p.187)
Book Ref
Baggini,J/Stangroom,J: 'New British Philosophy' [Routledge 2002], p.187
A Reaction
He cites 'subject', 'spirit', 'art', 'will to power', 'praxis' and 'being' as candidates. This is a helpful overview for someone struggling to get to grips with that tradition.
The
19 ideas
with the same theme
[key shared characteristics of continental modern philosophy]:
21984
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We must break up the rigidity that our understanding has imposed
[Hegel]
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22082
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Truth does not appear by asserting reasons and then counter-reasons
[Hegel]
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6904
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Modern philosophy begins with Descartes' abstraction from sensation and matter
[Feuerbach]
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6931
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Empiricism is right about ideas, but forgets man himself as one of our objects
[Feuerbach]
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21841
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We must create new words, and treat them as normal, and as if designating real things.
[Deleuze]
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21901
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'Difference' refers to that which eludes capture
[Deleuze, by May]
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7423
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Philosophy and politics are fundamentally linked
[Foucault]
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6841
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Some continental philosophers are relativists - Baudrillard, for example
[Baudrillard, by Critchley]
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8223
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The plague of philosophy is those who criticise without creating, and defend dead concepts
[Deleuze/Guattari]
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8988
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Two marxist ideas have dominated in France: base and superstructure, and ideology
[Scruton]
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7075
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To meet the division in our life, try the Subject, Nature, Spirit, Will, Power, Praxis, Unconscious, or Being
[Critchley]
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7069
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The French keep returning, to Hegel or Nietzsche or Marx
[Critchley]
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6835
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German idealism aimed to find a unifying principle for Kant's various dualisms
[Critchley]
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6837
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Since Hegel, continental philosophy has been linked with social and historical enquiry.
[Critchley]
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6836
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Continental philosophy fights the threatened nihilism in the critique of reason
[Critchley]
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6838
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Continental philosophy is based on critique, praxis and emancipation
[Critchley]
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6845
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Continental philosophy has a bad tendency to offer 'one big thing' to explain everything
[Critchley]
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6859
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Analytic philosophy has much higher standards of thinking than continental philosophy
[Williamson]
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21900
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Deleuze relies on Spinoza (immanence), Bergson (duration), and difference (Nietzsche)
[May]
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