Can someone explain this meme?
British philosophy ends two steps after it begins, invariably with intolerable smugness.
Continental philosophy = leftist political activism
Analytical philosophy = intellectual masturbation
>muh positivism
>muh objectivity
>>796653
Objectivity is a thing to strive for
Like objectively I want that semen demon
Continental philosophy = philosophy as accepted by the rest of the civilised world
Analytical Philosophy = British circlejerking it to hume on their islands
continental philosophy tongues my anus
>>796668
Get a pencil.
>>796668
No, you subjectively want it. Learn what the terms actually mean.
Scientists ignore both.
>>796455
It's meant to be ironic.
Nietzsche is describing himself using the ad-homen attacks that Russel describes him in. Russel is asserting postivism as being the cool thing.
>>799366
the ironic thing about russel's position is that his own positvist approach to language (define your terms =D) called atomic facts was rejected by his own student and debunked.
>>799282
>I hate fun
Its probably just people who study philosophy in uni trying to be relevant and more-enlightened-than-you.
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Postanalytic philosophy>>>>anal licking philosophy=cunt indenting philosophy
Argumentation based on prepackaged labels is non-critical
I studied and liked both schools. But >>803460 describes something that I experienced many times nonetheless, while >>796455 looks like he never really ried to understand continental philosophy.
Also, continental philosophy and analytical philosophy are not really separated as the meme wants us to believe. Many thinkers belong to both at the same time, are right in the middle, or are simply impossible to classify.
OP PLS READ
Analytic philosophy is the tradition in the anglo world after russel, and continental philosophy is kinda just defined as "not analytic" but is roughly the tradition in europe that acts like 19th century philosophy still happened and is worth talking about, and what comes from husserl. Anyone who says that the distinction is significant or well defined is dumb, but anyone who denies the distinction exist historically and sociologically is also dumb. The meme you are asking about is bait. That being said continental philosophy is bullshit poetry and should be burned
>>803736
>Nietzsche is Hitler's sensei
>Heidegger is the glorious prophet of national-socialism
>Chomsky, Nozick, Kripke, Kuhn, Putnam, and Ayn Rand were all juden amerishit
>>799282
>"Want" can be reduced to something subjective
No. He is objectively experiencing a subjective opinion about something. He objectively wants that semen demon, there's no denying that's the absolute truth.
Learn the difference between "It is true that I objectively see a computer" and "This computer is objectively true (real)"
>>803736
>Frege's mother was Augusta Bialloblotzky
>Frege, the father of analytic philosophy, was polish, and therefore juden
>ITT: American's spoonfed on Continental "philosophy"
Look, a great deal of Continental philosophy stems from Hegel. Let's look at his dialectic.
This guy, Hegel, literally believes in a world spirit. He makes frankly embarrassing predictions (remember this) about the state of the world and its ultimate end. He literally thinks just post-enlightenment Prussia is very close to the perfect "end of history". Of course, non of this is falisifiable because nobody can judge the end of history. I know Continental philosophers don't like the notion of "falsifiability" because they like their philosophy to hang in a void and be built of nothing but fun, abstract assertions with nothing to do with the way we assess truth in the real world.
Moving on we have the Master/Slave dialectic, a less historical and more social approach to the development of relations. This is seen in Nietzsche, Heidegger and Marx.
Nietzsche is actually good. He doesn't so much make predictions as assertions and the ones he makes are enlightening and astute. His comment on the dissolution of "common" morality in his "God is Dead" parable is timeless. He's a fantastic and engaging writer and, in my opinion represents the best Continental philosophy has to offer.
However he, like Marx and Hegel, all sometimes fall into the classic Continental tradition of "story telling" - Sartre does this two with his assertion of the Will and Camus with his talk of morality. The former cases all tell stories about the future of mankind, where it has come from (Master/slave morality development) and where it will go (all unfalsifiable, fanciful tales).
Fast forward and we can look at philosophers like Hubert Dreyfus, directly inspired by philosophers like Heidegger and later Wittgenstein (who in my opinion becomes wildly Continental as he ages and joins the Volk). His "contributions" to AI have been to regurgitate Heideggerian opinions about representations of the world, phonemes and pattern recognition. cont.
The distinction is really only made in the anglosphere and even then actual philosophers are not concerned with it. It seems to me that it describes a very specific movement, Russel and friends, rather than actually being a dramatically different approach. The word analytic has just kind of caught on. No one identifies as a 'continental'.
>>803799
These regurgitations have included the embarrassing prediction that we will never have voice-to-text speech recognition in machines.
Who else do we have today? Zizek? Heidegger is coming into fashion again - What is his contribution? That we must think differently, like a Buddhist at his koans. Well, personally I've always taken to be fraudulent talk, if you can't decribe to me the circumstances under which you came to your conclusion (I'm open to phenomenological, rather than verbal, evidence) then you're simply lying or don't know what you're talking about. Marxism, as Althusser recognised, will never escape its "mystical kernal" it depends on the fanciful tales because the evidence for its inevitable success is lacklustre. Ah, but just look at those who push extreme Marxism, such a fervent belief in equality, such a denial of evidence and reason and pace. I don't know, I am happy with socialism and capitalism to an extent.
You just have to look and see that Continental philosophers are frauds, or they literally believe in magic. I prefer the earnestness of Analytic philosophy, it builds a great deal on trying not to lie - in fact the truth of statements is its entire aim - just look at Russell's correspondence to Frege if you have any doubt.
Personally though, I think the whole Analytic/Continental philosophy divide is a farce. Continental philosophers are like an old lady shouting at her neighbour to "keep it down" without realising her neighbour has long since moved away. You're stuck in your times and, to be honest, you're slowly shrinking into English Literature.
Ethical studies: Bentham, Mill, Kant, Singer Aristotle. The Philosphy or Science: Kuhn and Popper.
Historical, and perspective philosophy: Nietzsche, Plate (Socrates), Camus
All of these "groups" are still alive and far more interesting than the sad little affair of Contental Vs Analytic
>>796455
more like incontinental philosophy
