13 ideas
6848 | Humour is practically enacted philosophy [Critchley] |
6847 | Humour can give a phenomenological account of existence, and point to change [Critchley] |
6844 | Scientism is the view that everything can be explained causally through scientific method [Critchley] |
6835 | German idealism aimed to find a unifying principle for Kant's various dualisms [Critchley] |
6837 | Since Hegel, continental philosophy has been linked with social and historical enquiry. [Critchley] |
6836 | Continental philosophy fights the threatened nihilism in the critique of reason [Critchley] |
6838 | Continental philosophy is based on critique, praxis and emancipation [Critchley] |
6845 | Continental philosophy has a bad tendency to offer 'one big thing' to explain everything [Critchley] |
6846 | Phenomenology is a technique of redescription which clarifies our social world [Critchley] |
18281 | In mathematics everything is algorithm and nothing is meaning [Wittgenstein] |
21799 | We just use the word 'faculty' when we don't know the psychological cause [Galen] |
6606 | Consider: "Imagine this butterfly exactly as it is, but ugly instead of beautiful" [Wittgenstein] |
6843 | Perceiving meaninglessness is an achievement, which can transform daily life [Critchley] |