Am I alone in finding the very idea of “Continental Philosophy” ridiculous? What would we think of a university that appointed someone to teach Continental Chemistry? Continental Algebra? Does it tell us something about philosophy as an academic discipline?
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Replying to @RichardDawkins
Yes, it tell us that philosophers are more aware of the cultural and historical conditions of the knowledge they produce than scientific materialists like you who put your own ego in God’s place and imagine you have a view from nowhere.
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Whereas you/your preferred philosophers have a view that is more objective because it is more subjective?
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reality is nondual, and as such neither subjective nor objective; or if you prefer it has both subjective and objective poles. Truth is the dialectic between the two. This is what the German idealists meant by the Absolute.
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Above, you tried to use a normative argument to support an epistemological claim. Here, you appear to confuse ontology with metaphysics?
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Curious to know the difference between the two?
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Ontology is what exists. Metaphysics is the set of structural principles that describes the conditions of existence. Epistemology is what we can know.
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