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by neel_k
2213 days ago
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Well, this was an utterly nonsensical waste of time. A much wiser and more humane attitude towards continental philosophy was expressed by the great analytic philosopher Michael Dummett, who remarked that the division of philosophy into two traditions which largely don't talk to each other represented a great failure of philosophers to live up to the ideals of their subject. It's hard to claim you are seeking wisdom when you are unwilling to listen to your brethren. Dummett wrote a whole book about this, _Origins of Analytical Philosophy_. It will take substantially more time to read than this article, but on the other hand, it will actually leave you better-informed at the end of it. (He has a hilariously specific answer to when analytic philosophy diverged from continental philosophy: page 62 of Frege's book _The Foundations of Arithmetic_. And it's a really good answer, too!) |
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