In which it is noted: —that philosophy is the art of making distinctions. He meant that what brings together Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Aquinas, Kant, Hegel, and Wittgenstein is a gift for clarifying how this differs from that, how one aspect of an idea profiles itself against another, how seemingly similar concepts are in fact distinct.
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Monday, August 10, 2015
In which it is noted: —that philosophy is the art of making distinctions. He meant that what brings together Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Aquinas, Kant, Hegel, and Wittgenstein is a gift for clarifying how this differs from that, how one aspect of an idea profiles itself against another, how seemingly similar concepts are in fact distinct.
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The ability to distinguish is the very core of intelligence. IMHO
ReplyDeleteWhat is distinct here http://darkecologies.com/2015/08/08/accelerating-annihilation-nick-land-technopessimism-and-the-posthuman-world/
ReplyDelete^^^ That was certainly interesting. The associated rabbit holes too.
ReplyDeleteUmm- I'd say that the subject is too deep and wide to allow for a short answer. Thanks for bringing it to the table though. While I'm not entirely a stranger to posthumanism, my ideas concerning accelerationism are somewhat more clearly ordered now.
You may also enjoy Ervin Laszlo
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