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[filed under theme 18. Thought / C. Content / 6. Broad Content ]

Full Idea

According to phenomenology, thought depends on man's relations with the world - with which the brain is necessarily in agreement because it is drawn from these relations.

Gist of Idea

Phenomenology says thought is part of the world

Source

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

Book Ref

Deleuze/Guattari: 'What is Philosophy?' [Verso 1994], p.209


A Reaction

The development of externalist views of mind, arising from the Twin Earth idea, seems to provide a link to continental philosophy, where similar ideas are found in Husserl, Sartre and Merleau-Ponty. So study science, psychology, or sociology?


The 15 ideas from G Deleuze / F Guattari

Political theory should not focus on the state or economy, but on the small scale of power [Deleuze/Guattari, by May]
Philosophy is a concept-creating discipline [Deleuze/Guattari]
The plague of philosophy is those who criticise without creating, and defend dead concepts [Deleuze/Guattari]
Logic has an infantile idea of philosophy [Deleuze/Guattari]
We cannot judge the Cogito. Must we begin? Must we start from certainty? Can 'I' relate to thought? [Deleuze/Guattari]
Concepts are superior because they make us more aware, and change our thinking [Deleuze/Guattari]
Other people completely revise our perceptions, because they are possible worlds [Deleuze/Guattari]
Philosophy is in a perpetual state of digression [Deleuze/Guattari]
'Eris' is the divinity of conflict, the opposite of Philia, the god of friendship [Deleuze/Guattari]
Philosophy aims at what is interesting, remarkable or important - not at knowledge or truth [Deleuze/Guattari]
Atheism is the philosopher's serenity, and philosophy's achievement [Deleuze/Guattari]
Logic hates philosophy, and wishes to supplant it [Deleuze/Guattari]
The logical attitude tries to turn concepts into functions, when they are really forms or forces [Deleuze/Guattari]
Phenomenology needs art as logic needs science [Deleuze/Guattari]
Phenomenology says thought is part of the world [Deleuze/Guattari]