I’m trying to read philosophy. It’s hard. And fun. And slow.
I started with Rorty. I’ve always liked what I was able to understand. He’s post-modern, but earnest and humanist. I think! I’d tried to read him in college but hadn’t been able to get too far.
So far it’s been good!
I loved this description of philosophy as language war:
Interesting philosophy is rarely an examination of the pros and cons of a thesis. Usually it is, implicitly or explicitly, a contest between an entrenched vocabulary which has become a nuisance and a half-formed new vocabulary which vaguely promises great things.
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