Okay, it's a quiet Saturday evening and the crowds are already past this fad, so... I'll tweet one unpopular opinion per Like within 30min of this tweet. Limit 15, but I'll try to make them as real as I can without naming names.
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Replying to @vgr
This is brilliant. 'Western philosophy isn't real philosophy' - I vaguely remember seeing tomes of Dr. S. Radhakrishnan in your bookshelf when you posted pictures. :)
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Replying to @SMKainkaryam @vgr
@vgr could you elaborate or point to reading on this. Asking for a friendly fish who’s only ever lived in western waters1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @patwater @SMKainkaryam
The 3-way western divorce between philosophy, literature, and theology in the West strongly impoverished the philosophy piece. I look to the literature and (christian) theology in the west for the higher quality western philosophy thinking.
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Replying to @vgr @SMKainkaryam
What about the continental versus analytical Western philosophy tradition?
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Replying to @patwater @SMKainkaryam
Continental is stronger imo because the divorce is weaker. Analytical is mainly just language cleverness. Just do math and foundations of logic instead. Not saying either is bad. Just not as strong as they could be.
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Replying to @vgr @SMKainkaryam
+1 particularly for intelligible continental philosohy like after finitude by Quentin meilleisoux. Blew my mind in 2008. What do you see as the strong eastern philosophy out of curiousity? And where do you place someone like amartya sen?
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Eastern is not actually a good natural dual to western. I'd say female philosophy is a better dual. The characteristic feature of western philosophy is it's gender rather than geography. It's very masculine.
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Good book on this topic: http://amzn.to/2zUbpeb (the Amazon reviews are angry enough you know it hit some nerves)
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