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Single Idea 8217

[filed under theme 1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 3. Philosophy Defined ]

Full Idea

Philosophy is the discipline that involves creating concepts.

Gist of Idea

Philosophy is a concept-creating discipline

Source

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

Book Ref

Deleuze/Guattari: 'What is Philosophy?' [Verso 1994], p.4

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A Reaction

One might very reasonably reply that Geography is a discipline which creates concepts. However, this emphasis is an interesting corrective to the school of analysis, which appears confined to existing, and even 'folk', concepts.

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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]

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]

8220	Philosophy is in a perpetual state of digression [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]

8246	Logic hates philosophy, and wishes to supplant it [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]

8248	Phenomenology says thought is part of the world [Deleuze/Guattari]