"Derrida insisted that he is not a skeptic."

Yes, and I do not agree.

I prefer Kant to Hege — Moliere

Indeed.

Until God became a ghost in his own machine… — Wayfarer

Indeed.

I agree that Hegel is a concrete thinker, tho -- just fy — Moliere

Many read the section "Absolute Knowing" in the Phenomenology as saying dialectical history comes to an end. Hegel is criticizing subjectivity and saying we are in the stage of objective knowing. Like you said, a concrete thinker. Thus Hegel is not a skeptic.

. Do you think that's unfair? — Moliere

See, Hegel is a concrete thinker. Many do not get that. So I get the idea criticizing dialectic, but in the end, Hegel means nothingness, or an irreducible otherness. I am saying Derrida idealizes otherness.


As the artist Frank Stella said, "All I want anyone to get out of my paintings is the fact that you can see the whole idea without any conclusion . . . What you see is what you see."

I think he's trying to actually move outside of Kant's categories, but knows that in so speaking he would already set up an opposition which would create a Hegelian sort of dialectic... — Moliere

The concept of otherness ( "differance") came from Hegel which influenced Levi-Strauss and Saussure. Kojeve's works on Hegel were very influential.

"the real object" is understood in a general sense of descriptions for all objects. — Moliere

Derrida is a Kantian.

I think skeptic is a good epithet; with respect to scientific knowledge and such I think he really is a skeptic. But, one, I don't see that as a bad thing. And two, I think his skepticism is confined to a tradition. I don't think he's a universal skeptic. — Moliere

Skeptics posit a totality which cannot be had. Platonism. The real object cannot be conceived.

I am not a skepic.

Maybe the other way around or maybe they evolve together. — Clarky

They are ways people think about the world.

Deconstruction is supposed to be the method by which we discover this super-transcendental, and perhaps, get to something real and lived, what is between the binary — Moliere

Fair assessment. In the end, I see Derrida as a skeptic.

Probably his most accessible essay is, "Differance."

Yeah, that's my impression, for the most part. Analytic philosophy is more popular in US phil. — Moliere

I read some Derrida in grad school. There was a Heidegger professor who occasionally gave a Derrida class.

Go back to Charles Ferraro's comments and resopond. — charles ferraro

huh?

Derrida is still cited with frequency by some it seems. — Tom Storm

Who are these "some?"

I do not think Derrida or deconstruction is much a topic in US philosophy departments. I mean, it never really was--mostly in comparative literature departments.

To what extent is Deconstruction still practiced in philosophy? — Tom Storm

I don't think it is a live topic anymore.

the most advanced digital technologies available today are the final products of philosophical underpinnings contributed by Leibnitz — Joshs

Russell credits Leibniz with inventing mathematical logic.
Leibniz talked about the universe itself being a computer.

Ok. So it's a cryptic reference to Plato? — Tom Storm

Seems to be verbatim from Plato.

s I understand it, it's Michel de Montaigne: "To philosophize is to learn how to die." — Tom Storm

He is citing Plato. There would be no need to do philosophy if we were gods.

Did you guys know that to philosophize is to start dying? This was credited to some philosopher. — L'éléphant

Socrates/Plato.

In science,metaphysics is an archaic word replaced by speculation in science. — jgill

Yes, why philosophy is not science.

metaphysics is the set up underlying assumptions, — Clarky

Pretty much how Aristotle defines it as "first philosophy."

They’re is no clear definitional distinction between philosophy and science. — Joshs

I never heard that before. Please explain.

No, a philosophical worldview is the basis of a science. If science progresses , then philosophy progresses. — Joshs

Science describes physical particles. Philosophy is not limited by physicality.

Quantum mechanics is happening in ‘you’ all the time, I think. — universeness

Agree.

I don't think you can demonstrate that nothing further or new is possible. — Tom Storm

The very notion seems absurd.

Do you think there is progress in science? — Joshs

Yes. But philosophy is not science.

Contemporary philosophers debate whether there is progress in philosophy. My first answer is no, because there does not need to be progress. Qualified, sometimes there are vigorous debates and people accept a consensus view, which might be called progress.

Bearing this in mind I still have noticed there seems to be a lot of "touching on" and "proposing alternatives" that don't often lead too far or gain traction, again as far as new/original/undiscussed ideas and concepts go, at least from my view.

Would you agree with this assertion or no? — Outlander

No.

Or, more circumspectly, he could get more out of it if he wanted to. — Moliere

Yes, he reads Derrida from the position of literary criticism.

At least, I have a hard time connecting what he says to what I've read. — Moliere

The author: "Timothy Brennan is a professor in the humanities at the University of Minnesota."

So, he is not a philosopher.

If I understand correctly, it is well established that quantum mechanics only applies at the subatomic, atomic, and small molecule scale. — Clarky

Well, one could science only is true in labs or mathematics.

Can you see, from your interpretation of Aristotle, how he might serve as a contrast case to Derrida's philosophy, which is not "based on observing others and people who seem to be happy", nor did he write a physics with a reflection on said physics in some ultimate sense? — Moliere

Derrida wrote an article on Aristotle, called "White Mythology." Been a while since I studied it and do not remember what he said about Aristotle.

based his ethics on human biology (which, for him, was teleological) — Moliere

No. Based on observing others and people who seem to be happy.

sort of one of the originals to treat philosophy in a scientific mode, — Moliere

This is not true.

It's an interpretation, not a quote — Moliere

I did not say you were quoting.

What would it mean to reject a method of reading? — Moliere

To use another method that is better.

Derrida's philosophy isn't the philosophy of Aristotle, where philosophy is a body of true propositions validated by the best scientific methods of the day and then speculated upon — Moliere

I've read Aristotle and never saw him give such a definition. Can you refer to something in his texts to support that?

The secular mainstream still firmly believes in physicalist determinism and causal closure despite all that. — Wayfarer

Yes. Newton's determinism was based on God as the supreme lawgiver.

Reason does not tell us that death is a harm. — Moses

Death is part of nature. Like being born or eating food.

1) dying is often done with family and friends and is often the first time people have felt connected to others in many years. — Tom Storm

Thank you for explaining. You were referring to death, not other kinds of suffering.