compilations — philosophy
content   quotes philosophers philosophers 2 articles links		quotes   life   highest happiness man can know is the intellectual love of G-D baruch spinoza in ethics, 1674   life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backward soren kierkegaard in the journals of kierkegaard   freedom   men are deceived if they think themselves free, an opinion which consists only in this, that they are conscious of their actions and ignorant of the causes by which they are determined baruch spinoza in ethics, 1674   god   the kindly god who lovingly fashioned each and every one of us and sprinkled the sky with shining stars for our delight - that god is, like santa claus, a myth of childhood, not anything a sane, undeluded adult could literally believe in. that god must either be turned into a symbol for something less concrete or abandoned altogether daniel dennett in darwin's dangerous idea, 1995   by G-D, i mean a being absolutely infinite—that is, a substance consisting in infinite attributes, of which each expresses eternal and infinite essentiality { and an infinite number of finite modes. these modes are you, me, and every other particular thing } baruch spinoza in ethics, 1674   philosophy   the aim of philosophy is to understand how things in the broadest possible sense of the term hang together in the broadest possible sense of the term wilfred sellars in philosophy and the scientific image of man   deconstruction   let us wage a war on totality; let us be witness to the unpresentable; let us activate the differences and save the honor of the name. deconstruction is only the negation of the negation, it remains in the same sphere, it nourishes the same terrorist pretension to truth, that is to say the association of the sign — here in its decline, that's the only difference — with intensity. it requires the same surgical tampering with words, the same split and the same exclusions that the lover's demand exacts on skins. the artist and the writer are working without rules in order to formulate the rules of what will have been done. hence the fact that work and text have the character of an event; hence also, they always come too late for their author, or, what amounts to the same thing, their being put into work, their realization always begins too soon. post modern would have to be understood according to the paradox of the future (post) anterior (modo). the sublime feeling is neither moral universality nor aesthetic universalization, but is, rather, the destruction of one by the other in the violence of their differend. this differend cannot demand, even subjectively, to be communicated to all thought jean-francois lyotard
air   francis heylighen (60 li 5 ik) .be/brussel i+ uses evolutionary-cybernetic approach as a framework for the integration of ideas from different disciplines into an encompassing "world view" research evol of complexity, development of knowledge, collective intelligence, memetics studied mathematical physics @ free uni of brussels (87) founded principia cybernetica project (publisher), center "leo apostel" (co-director), global brain group (w/ goertzel) teach @ free university of brussels (research prof)   richard rorty (31 li 9 kan) .us/ca/stanford i++ is post-analytic phil is less interested in whether theories are true/false than whether they are useful and original takes philosophy as academic common-room conversation, which is less interested in reaching final conclusions than in examining a subject form as many angles as possible infl by foucault, derrida studied @ yale (56), uni of chicago (52) wrote contingency, irony, and solidarity (89), philosophy and the mirror of nature (79) - criticizes logical atomism teach @ stanford uni (98-, prof of comparative lit), uni of virginia (82-98, prof of humanities), princeton (61-82, prof of phil)   michel foucault (26-84 li 2 oc*) .fr + keywords discourse is "antipsychiatrist" (+ laing, szasz, cooper); poststruct; gay infl by nietzsche, heidegger studied phil & psychology @ école normale supérieure paris wrote the archaeology of knowledge (69), the order of things (66), madness and civilization (61) taught @ collége de france (70-, prof of history of systems of thought), uni of vincennes (60s, phil), uni of clermont-ferrand (60s, phil)   timothy leary (20-96 li 3 manik*) .us intr in computers (70s-), lsd & psylocybin (59-) studied psychology @ uni of california & uni of alabama worked @ faculty @ harvard uni centre for personality research (59-63); as director of psy research @ hospital in oakland, california (50s) founded league for spiritual discovery (63) w/ alpert, ginsberg   louis althusser (18-90 li 8 chuen*) .fr keywords ideology, interpellation is structural marxist intr in marx, communism studied phil @ étude normale supérieure paris (48) wrote reading capital (68), for marx (65) taught @ étude normale supérieure paris (48-, phil)   martin heidegger (889-76 li 11 cimi) .de/freiburg + criticized "our current technological understanding of being" infl by kierkegaard, nietzsche studied roman catholic theology (11) and phil @ uni of freiburg wrote being and time (27) taught @ uni of freiburg (28-, prof of phil), marburg (23-28)   john dewey (859-52 li 5 ahau) .us ++ keywords instrumentalism is pragm; psy, phil, edu, social critic, polit activist studied phil @ johns hopkins uni (884), @ uni of vermont (879) wrote art as experience (34), reconstruction in philosophy (20), democracy and education (16) taught @ columbia uni (04-30, prof of phil), uni of chicago (894-04, prof of phil), uni of michigan (884-894)   henri bergson (859-41 li 3 etznab) .fr keywords intuition, élan vital, evolution intr in sci studied phil @ école normale supérieure (881) taught @ collége de france (00-, prof of phil), école normale supérieure (898-00, prof of phil)   friedrich nietzsche (844-00 li 11 ahau) .de ++ is existentialist maintained that human behavior is motivated by a will to power and that traditional values had lost their power over society calls for "revaluation of all values" studied theology & classical phil @ uni of bonn (865) wrote ecce homo (08), beyond good and evil (886), thus spake zarathustra (883-5), human all too human (878-880) taught @ uni of basel (869-879, phil)		fire   daniel dennett (42 ar 12 muluc) .us/ma/north andover i+ is sculptor; director of the center for cogn studies @ tufts uni research darwinism+memetics=phil of mind, free will, consciousness, mental functioning, evol theory studied phil @ harvard (63) & oxford (65) co-founded curricular software studio @ tufts (85) wrote darwin's dangerous idea (95) teach @ tufts uni (71-, prof of dist arts, sci, and phil)   hilary putnam (26 le 4 ix+) .us world is not the product of the language, culture or ourselves. it's just a world. is functionalist; "natural" realist proposing a return to the idea of a "direct" perception; hyperproductive infl by kant, james, wittgenstein, goodman studied phil @ uni of california (51), math & phil @ uni of pennsylvania (48) taught @ harvard (76-00, prof of math logic & math), mit (61-76, phil of sci), princeton (51-61, math)   jean-francois lyotard (24-98 le 12 ix) .fr rejects "grant narratives" (~ universal theories) of western culture intr in knowledge and communication; human body; modernist and postmodern art, lit & music; film; time and memory; space, city & landscape; the sublime; relation bwn aesthetics and polit studied phil @ sorbonne (50) wrote the postmodern condition (79) taught @ emory uni atlanta (-98, prof of french and phil), uni of paris viii (-98, prof of phil) uni of california, irvine (prof of critical theory), yale (prof)   baruch spinoza (632-677 sa 8 ahau) .nl/amsterdam + .nl/hague +++ highest happiness man can know is the intellectual love of G-D is pantheist studied hebrews, talmud, cabbala, bible, descartes wrote ethics (674)		articles   derrida iview, la weekly, nov 02 baudrillard iview, ctheory, 02 rorty iview, kritika & kontext, mar 99 dennett iview, books & authors, dec 98 derrida iview, cardozo life, oct 98 rorty iview, books & authors, apr 98 lyotard iview, tekhnema, nov 97 derrida iview, 97 baudrillard iview, cybersphere, mar 96 virilio iview, frankfurter rundschau, sep 95 lyotard iview, jac, 95 rorty iview, the dualist, jan 95 lyotard iview, psychomedia, may 94 derrida iview extracts, 74-94 rorty iview, flash art, nov 93 leary iview, pataphysics, oct 89 foucault iview, may 84 foucault iview, oct 82 foucault iview, 76 foucault iview, jun 75 foucault tv debate rorty iview, tpm putnam iview, tpm dennett iview, tpm   links   principia cybernetica web
earth   paul virilio (32 cp 10 men)   gilles deleuze (25-95 cp 4 men) .fr/paris keywords rhizome is lit critic, critical phil, hist of phil infl by spinoza, nietzsche studied phil @ sorbonne (48) wrote anti-oedipus: capitalism and schizophrenia (72, w/ guattari), difference and repetition (69) taught @ vincennes (69-87, prof of phil), uni of lyon (64-69, phil), sorbonne (57-60, hist of phil) w/ guattari   wilfrid sellars (12-89 ta 9 eb*) .us/pa/pittsburgh ++ is analytic phil studied phil, politics & economics @ oriel college, oxford (40), @ uni of buffalo (34), @ uni of michigan (33) wrote empiricism and the philosophy of mind (56, essay) taught @ uni of pittsburgh (63-89, prof of phil), yale uni (58-63, prof of phil), uni of minnesota (46-58, phil)   emmanuel levinas (06-95 cp 5 ix) .fr keywords the Other is existentialist; jew intr in phenomenology studied phil @ freiburg, phil @ strasbourg wrote totality and infinity (61) taught @ sorbonne (73-79, prof of phil), nanterre uni of paris (67-73, prof of phil), uni of poitiers (61-67, prof of phil), école normale orientale paris (-61, phil)   ludwig wittgenstein (889-51 ta 1 ben) .uk/cambridge + .at/wien + studied math logic @ cambridge, mechanical engineering @ berlin & uni of manchester wrote tractatus logico-philosophicus (21), philosophical investigations (53) taught @ cambridge (39-47, logic, language, phil of math)   sören kierkegaard (813-855 ta 12 ik) .dk/kobenhavn ++		water   jacques derrida (30 cn 5 etznab) .fr/paris i often describe deconstruction as something which happens. it's not purely linguistic, involving text or books. you can deconstruct gestures, choreography. that's why i enlarged the concept of text keywords deconstruction, différance, center, bricolage shows instability of lang -> instability of system in general studied @ école normale supérieure paris wrote glas (74), of grammatology (67) teach @ école des hautes études paris (prof of social sci), uni of california, irvine (86-, prof of phil, french and comparative lit), école normale superieure (64-84, history of phil), sorbonne (60-64, phil)   jean baudrillard (29 cn 9 etznab) .fr/paris + keywords simulacrum, implosion, hyperreal intr in electronic media infl by marx, nietzsche, lévi-strauss, althusser wrote america (86), simulacres et simulation (81) teach @ uni of paris (prof of sociology)   donald davidson (17 pi 4 ik) .us/ca/stanford + intr in theory of mind+lang is deep and often hardly comprehensible infl by quine studied classical phil @ harvard teach @ uni of california, berkeley (81-), uni of chicago (76-81), rockefeller (70-76), princeton uni (67-70), stanford uni (51-67)   willard quine (08-00 cn 2 lamat) .us + is analytic phil, math studied @ harvard, @ oberlin college, ohio taught @ harvard (48-78, 36-42, prof of phil)
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