The former lines up with analytic philosophy. — Constance

I should add, minus the attitude.

Yeah I think anything continental covers that analytic can or does but not vice versa.

I was just about to quote "knitting with an attitude"...

But then, why are we born to suffer and die? — Constance

That depends on your theology.

But maybe I'm just old school. Others may believe that feeling now trumps thinking. Or the hermeneutics of approved texts is where it is at. — apokrisis

But one gets hung up on clarity with just this rigorous standard, and the when things get interesting, clarity gets dogmatic, as if the best we can do is stick with old vocabularies. Nah! Not that feeling trumps thinking; but that feeling is there for the analysis

That depends on your theology. — EugeneW

Is there nothing there theology cannot handle? Something that persists regardless?

Is there nothing there theology cannot handle? Something that persists regardless? — Constance

The eternal universe made by the gods.

Yeah I think anything continental covers that analytic can or does but not vice versa. — Shwah

I think they just gave up in the analytical US. So controlled, but so tedious, mostly.

The ultimate goal of the philosopher is to see themselves acting as copies of the gods in heaven. After long excursions and trips into the fields of ethics, ontology, science, metaphysics, etymology, mathematics, freedom, will, determinism, dualism, matter, mind and body, monism, atheism, theology, politics, observations, perceptions, objective truths, methodologies, logic, etcetera, it's time to time to thank our philosophers in time and welcome a new dawn in Philosophia.

it's time to time to thank our philosophers in time and welcome a new dawn in Philosophia. — EugeneW

Do you have any candidates in mind who you think are contributing to this new dawn? I don’t know of any living philosophers who are offering anything significantly beyond what writers like James and Nietzsche produced over 130 years ago.

An Initial requirement is you have to have a pole up your behind.
— Ansiktsburk

A portrait of the earnest as a wrong man? — lll

Rather a man who puts on an image of being right. Or at least, talking right.

The ultimate goal of the philosopher is to see themselves acting as copies of the gods in heaven — EugeneW

Someone had to say it. Everyone on TPF knows it down deep inside. Now that it's in the open one can stand erect, proud to advance what we all know to be true! :halo:

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Someone had to say it. Everyone on TPF knows it down deep inside. Now that it's in the open one can stand erect, proud to advance what we all know to be true! — jgill

I can't tell how ironic this statement is. I do think it's...metaphorically true....or not so crazy a theory...