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'Representation and Reality', 'The Trouble with Being Born' and 'Interview with Baggini and Stangroom'
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13 ideas
1. Philosophy / A. Wisdom / 3. Wisdom Deflated
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So-called wisdom is just pondering things instead of acting [Cioran]
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1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / a. Philosophy as worldly
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The job of the philosopher is to distinguish facts about the world from conventions [Putnam]
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1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 8. Humour
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Humour is practically enacted philosophy [Critchley]
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Humour can give a phenomenological account of existence, and point to change [Critchley]
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1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 3. Metaphysical Systems
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Systems are the worst despotism, in philosophy and in life [Cioran]
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1. Philosophy / G. Scientific Philosophy / 3. Scientism
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Scientism is the view that everything can be explained causally through scientific method [Critchley]
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1. Philosophy / H. Continental Philosophy / 1. Continental Philosophy
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German idealism aimed to find a unifying principle for Kant's various dualisms [Critchley]
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Since Hegel, continental philosophy has been linked with social and historical enquiry. [Critchley]
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Continental philosophy fights the threatened nihilism in the critique of reason [Critchley]
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Continental philosophy is based on critique, praxis and emancipation [Critchley]
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Continental philosophy has a bad tendency to offer 'one big thing' to explain everything [Critchley]
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1. Philosophy / H. Continental Philosophy / 2. Phenomenology
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Phenomenology is a technique of redescription which clarifies our social world [Critchley]
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1. Philosophy / H. Continental Philosophy / 3. Hermeneutics
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A text explained ceases to be a text [Cioran]
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