Zanix
Diamond Member
Do you think continental philosophy has any merit academically these days?
Should it?
I think that it's dangerous to limit ourselves to the boundaries of language, which seems to be the barrier of analytic philosophy. I mean, I think language is inherently representational. Words are incapsulated ideas. And as the map never "is" the actual terrain, there seems to be something lost in that incapsulation. I have no idea how to describe that part, and that's kind of the beauty of it. It seems a little silly to even try.
But I see where analytic philosophy is much more functional in our closed systems like law or computers. It doesn't seem like a very good tool for going at the universe though.
Like "how do we describe humanity?" seems to loose it's profound mystery when approached with analytic philosophy.
I don't want to get into GOD, which has become a filthy word, but I'm disheartened and afraid that atheists these days have lost the mystery in this mystery because of the abuse of the word "GOD", which to me is just the desperate attempt to describe the ineffable.
Heh. Neff the ineffable.
Should it?
I think that it's dangerous to limit ourselves to the boundaries of language, which seems to be the barrier of analytic philosophy. I mean, I think language is inherently representational. Words are incapsulated ideas. And as the map never "is" the actual terrain, there seems to be something lost in that incapsulation. I have no idea how to describe that part, and that's kind of the beauty of it. It seems a little silly to even try.
But I see where analytic philosophy is much more functional in our closed systems like law or computers. It doesn't seem like a very good tool for going at the universe though.
Like "how do we describe humanity?" seems to loose it's profound mystery when approached with analytic philosophy.
I don't want to get into GOD, which has become a filthy word, but I'm disheartened and afraid that atheists these days have lost the mystery in this mystery because of the abuse of the word "GOD", which to me is just the desperate attempt to describe the ineffable.
Heh. Neff the ineffable.
