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The greatest philosopher alive today

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Posted 04/18/04 - 11:51 PM:	#22
In light of tha famous Schopenhauer quote.... It seems M. Derrida already survived the first stage through which truth goes and is now heading for the second, opposition. Will mister Quine turn in his grave when the 21st century becomes the century of Derrida?
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Posted 04/19/04 - 12:00 PM:	#23
BenMurrell7 wrote: either socrates or plato You're kidding, right?
I won't utter falsehoods, but I've no objection to uttering meaningless statements - A.J. Ayer, when saying grace. The apparent negation of a pseudo [meaningless] statement must also be a pseudo-statement - from Carnap's Empiricism, Semantics, and Ontology Those who deny [Aristotle's] first principle should be flogged or burned until they admit that it is not the same thing to be burned and not burned, or whipped and not whipped. - Ibn Sina (Avicenna)

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Posted 04/19/04 - 12:16 PM:	#24
Perhaps he overlooked the fact that we are disscussing modern day philosophers. I'm going to have to say that recently Noam Chomsky works on linguistics have got me absolutley captivated. Here I was thinking he was a one trick pony what with politics and all, then he goes and blows my mind with his theories on on language protocol.
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Posted 04/19/04 - 04:46 PM:	#25
Is Baudrillard still alive? I know his latest work Screened Out (I think that's it) came out recently.
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Posted 04/19/04 - 05:06 PM:	#26
Yes Baudrillard is still alive his 2003 book The Spirit of Terrorism about the predicament of western hegemony is definitive. But the new hotness is Slavoj Zizek, Long live the Lacanians!!!

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Posted 04/19/04 - 05:27 PM:	#27
I really like Willard van Orman Quine. Absolutely fantastic stuff, and since I don't really dig politics, I can steer clear with Willard's work! Definitely the best guy from around this time period.
Every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time. ~Friedrich Nietzsche

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Posted 04/19/04 - 05:38 PM:	#28
sweetjouissance wrote: Yes Baudrillard is still alive his 2003 book The Spirit of Terrorism about the predicament of western hegemony is definitive. But the new hotness is Slavoj Zizek, Long live the Lacanians!!! The Spirit of Terrorism was a very interesting read. I actually bought the essay, although I believe it was bit overpriced considering page content, and considering I finished reading it at Barnes and Noble, but still awesome none-the-less. I posted a thread on it in the Anthropology, Socialogy, ect. forum, but nobody else commented on it. I'm going to have to check out Slavoj Zizek then..... what about the other two Terrorism books published by the same company, "Ground Zero," and "The Desert of the Real," are those worth reading?
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Posted 04/19/04 - 07:50 PM:	#29
I've heard that The Puppet and the Dwarf: the perverse core of christianity is a good read. The best thing I've read by Zizek so far is his article in Critical Inquiry Winter 2004 called "The On-going Soft Revolution" The Desert of the Real isn't bad either. P.S. everyone needs to stop trash-talking Derrida he's the ubermensch, if ever there was one. Derrida's style of writing is the logical outcome of his brand of thinking. That letter is the product of the dominant order in philosophy trying to dictate what is and is not philosophy because they feel threatened by a mind as formidable as that of Jacques Derrida. People fear change. How dare such an Institution (with a capital "I") as Cambridge give that fool with no regard for the norms and rules laid down by philosophy an honorary degree. Of couse they don't like him, he criticizes everything they stand for. P.P.S. the deconstruction of the text is not something you do it just happens. Deconstruction is not a verb but an inherent quality of language due to its indeterminate and polysemous nature. Derrida just points out how this is so. But he does not deconstruct the text, the text deconstructs itself.

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Posted 04/20/04 - 02:58 AM:	#30
Alvin Plantinga's Free Will Defense ain't no small potatos.
I perhaps did right in submitting my aphorism to a systematic appraiser. Perhaps something may come of it, a footnote in [a philosophical system] -- great idea! Then I would not have lived in vain! - Søren Kierkegaard I am so stupid that I cannot understand philosophy; the antithesis of this is that philosophy is so clever that it cannot comprehend my stupidity. These antitheses are mediated in a higher unity: in our common stupidity. - Søren Kierkegaard

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