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1. Philosophy / B. History of Ideas / 6. Twentieth Century Thought

[landmarks of general European thought, 1879 - 2000]

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8053	Twentieth century social life is re-enacting eighteenth century philosophy [MacIntyre]
	Full Idea: Twentieth century social life turns out in key part to be the concrete and dramatic re-enactment of eighteenth-century philosophy.
	From: Alasdair MacIntyre (After Virtue: a Study in Moral Theory [1981], Ch. 8)
	A reaction: This suggest a two hundred year lag between the philosophy and its impact on the culture. One might note the Victorian insistence on 'duty' (e.g. in George Eliot), alongside Mill's view that the Kantian account of it didn't work (Idea 3768).

19657	In Kant the thing-in-itself is unknowable, but for us it has become unthinkable [Meillassoux]
	Full Idea: The major shift that has occurred in the conception of thought from Kant's time to ours is from the unknowability of the thing-in-itself to its unthinkability.
	From: Quentin Meillassoux (After Finitude; the necessity of contingency [2006], 2)
	A reaction: Meillassoux is making the case that philosophy is alienating us more and more from the triumphant realism of the scientific revolution. He says thinking has split from being. He's right. Modern American pragmatists are the worst (not Peirce!).