Re: What is Philosophy?

[nj8 <nj8@ntlworld.com>]

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Simon Crtichley, who is sympathetic to both, says (quite rightly in my 
view) that the danger for analytic philosophy is scienticism; for 
continental philosophy obscurantism.

I think Wittgenstein was talking about philosophy when he rather nicely 
said 'it is not an exact science. It is not even an exact art'.

Happy Christmas all. Now go and open your stockings....

nick jones




Nick Dippie wrote:

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> 2 very brief points here:
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> firstly paul - "Could anyone
> please give me some examples of other subjects that
> are self-critical (as opposed to being critical merely
> about their objects of study)?" - thats a nice distinction, and i think you
> are absolutely right about it.my approach was a little blunt. i still think
> philosophy is all about the underlying assumptions though.well, partly about
> at least.
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> secondly to all of you trying to pen philosophy as some kind of uberscience
> - its not. to me, philosophy is most definitely an art, not a science.
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> nick
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