15 June 2017

Am I "Analytic" or "Continental"?

If I have to chose one, I would now say "Analytic", but I am not a partisan member of either tendency. I am interested in existentialism, but not as much as I used to be.
I would say I am a rationalist in a very general sense, and not necessarily in opposition to empiricism.
I am very sceptical of what is called "Post-Modernism".


"Masters of Modern Thought" on BBC4

3 Masters of Modern Thought

MARX               gave rise to                 Authoritarian Communism; Soviet Empire and Soviet Tyranny

NIETZSCHE    gave rise to                 Fascism and Nazism

FREUD              gave rise to                 Psychiatry

(The thinkers weren't the only cause of the phenomena referred to above; nor were the phenomena given rise to necessarily the intentions of the thinkers; nor were the phenomena referred to above the only things that the thinkers gave rise to).

3 Masters of Ancient Thought

BUDDHA                     

SOCRATES                 

CONFUCIUS

I think I prefer ancient thought if this is anything to go by.

Inspired by the BBC4 "Masters of Modern Thought" series with Bettany Hughes.