If you classify western philosophers by what they led with, I think it is: Epistemology-first: Spinoza, Descartes, Hume, Kant Ontology-first: Hegel, Marx, Heidegger Phenomenology-first: Nietzche, Husserl, Arendt Treating these as stocks I think E is down, O is up, P is up a lot
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There's probably at least an n=2 generalization here about the phylogeny of philosophical inquiry (which is often recapitulated by the ontogeny of an individual path of inquiry).
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Constructionism is a bad word for what it purports to describe. It suggests brick-by-brick arbitrariness. No, it's more like "directed evolution" in the sense of world-building, where you define some pieces and evolutionary rules, and hit "go".
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If your constructed philosophy manages to persist forever -- an infinite game API, you get an A+. If it can survive long enough to sustain the life of a multigenerational community, it gets a B. A single individual, a C. A single individual for >10y, D. Failure <10y = F.
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Does he have a parallel to monads? (ie, which aspects of Liebniz)
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