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Deconstruction is not neutral; it intervenes [Derrida]
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Full Idea:
Deconstruction, I have insisted, is not neutral. It intervenes.
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From:
Jacques Derrida (Positions [1971], p.76)
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A reaction:
This, I think, is because there is in Derrida, as in most French philosophers, a strong streak of Marxism, and a desire to change the world, rather than merely understanding it. Idea 8213 shows the sort of thing he wants to change.
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I try to analyse certain verbal concepts which block and confuse the dialectical process [Derrida]
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Full Idea:
I have tried to analyse certain marks in writing which are undecidables, false verbal properties, which inhabit philosophical opposition, resisting and disorganising it, without ever constituting a third term, withour ever leaving room for a solution.
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From:
Jacques Derrida (Positions [1971], p.40)
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A reaction:
[I have simplified his sentence!] Much of Derrida seems to be a commentary on the Hegelian dialectic, and the project is presumably to figure out why philosophy is not advancing in the way we would like. Interesting...
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Moral problems are responsibility conflicts, needing contextual and narrative attention to relationships [Gilligan]
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Full Idea:
The moral problem arises from conflicting responsibilities rather than competing rights, and its resolution needs contextual and narrative thinking. This morality as care centers around the understanding of responsibility and relationships.
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From:
Carol Gilligan (In a Different Voice [1982], p.19), quoted by Will Kymlicka - Contemporary Political Philosophy (1st edn)
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A reaction:
[Kymlicka cites her as a key voice in feminist moral philosophy] I like all of this, especially the very original thought (to me, anyway) that moral thinking should be 'narrative' in character.
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