It's the difference between someone who looks at various divinational practices like the I Ching & Tarot- as objective communications- & one who uses them as ways to investigate their own impulsive associations to the signs- the former assumes far more objectivity than the latter
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For instance- to say "my heart has been cut out"- metaphorically displays a sense of loss, emptiness- but a metaphysician might discuss "the heart" as a sort of platonic form representing defined characteristics, "cut out" as a specific relation- etc.
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Kierkegaard said Hegel would become a great philosopher if he put: "this is a thought experiment" as a preface to his works- as to believe, *literally*, in the procession of the "world-spirit" in History, is an insane sort of historicist supernaturalism- a metaphor read as fact.
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@KANTBOT20K for showing me the path that leads from Berkeley to Hume & from Hume to Hamann & from Hamann to Kierkegaard & from Kierkegaard to Wittgenstein. It is a great school of crossing the Themes to the Rhine, back & forth. Anglo-Saxons & Germans.2 replies 1 retweet 26 likesShow this thread -
I can't take philosophycels who don't deal with Wittgenstein seriously. He is, by far, the clearest, most concise, deepest, most imaginative philosopher (proper) of the 20th century. Whenever I read Wittgenstein I feel as if I am clearing cobwebs from an old room.
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"It has gradually become clear to me what every great philosophy up till now has consisted of – namely, the confession of its originator, and a species of involuntary and unconscious autobiography" - Nietzschepic.twitter.com/vxDGhyTdJ8
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Replying to @Logo_Daedalus
Siding with the empiricists...this is leading down a dangerous road is all I'm saying


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Replying to @giantgio
I don't think so. Hamann believed that Humean empiricism was the best defense christianity had against the enlighteners.
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Replying to @Logo_Daedalus
Hmmmm, interesting, what is the basics of his argument?
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Replying to @giantgio
It's complicated- but he dissolves the claims of "reason" using hume- kant wrote his critique after getting hume from hamann & on it goes
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Hmm I seem to recall on his Nietzsche commentary, that basically like in twilight of idols, the later metaphysicians like Kant have abstracted God with ReasonTM to the point of oblivion, only He affirms a revitalized Christianity and Nietzsche obviously went the opposite way.
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