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Here is a copy on Derrida from the Routledge Critical Thinkers Series, I haven’t read it myself, but it’s supposed to be an excellent introduction for those new to Derrida. Who wants to read it with me?

http://users.clas.ufl.edu/burt/Burt%20Glossator/Jacques%20Derrida%20-%20Nicholas%20Royle.pdf

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Ok brill I appreciate you facilitating uploads as I only tend to use either my iPad or iPhone

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I’d be cautious about labelling Derrida as anything, to call him a metaphysical materialist assumes a fixed position in a system of thought, Derrida deconstruction would undermine such a notion….The deconstructive act involves 1) a vigilant opposition to any system that would grant absolute or primary status to any term whatsoever, be it speech, writing, structure, history, sign, logos, text, being, meaning, self, and so forth, and 2) an equally vigilant insistence on the need to re-utilize these very terms of untenable ontology, theology, and metaphysics in order to generate new discourse . One recognizes that the “reinscribed” terms are at perpetual risk of relapsing into metaphysics, but are indispensable if critical discourse is to continue its activity.

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Interesting essay

https://maritain.nd.edu/ama/Ciapalo/Ciapalo16.pdf

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Spinoza + Darwin = Nietzsche

https://philosophynow.org/issues/29/Nietzsche_and_Evolution

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I suppose Christianity merely inherited and embellished the ontological ideas of form and substance from Aristotle and Plato and the merging of Judeo-Greek ideas culminated in the metaphysics of the scholastics, and yes I’m sure the weight of this tradition continues to shape minds…..I think with regards to Foucault he is suspicious of those that claim there is a fixed human nature, for him this knowledge claim is inextricably linked to the exercise of power, they cannot be separated, so for Foucault its always about the function of the claim in terms of power and it’s the dominance of the institutions that make the claim to be ‘true’ (the human sciences)…..Foucault turns the old idea of Christianity / Platonism on its head, instead of the soul being trapped in the body, the body is actually trapped by ideas of the self imposed on it by society….Foucault famously said the ‘soul is the prison of the body’

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It’s all relational

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How’s the Foucault Reader coming on?

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I’m interested in checking out the similarities between Wittgenstein and Zen

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Hang fire it’ll come

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Definitely, have you had your Wittgenstein & Derrida book delivered yet?

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Currently reading ‘Ordinary Mind: Exploring the Common Ground of Zen and Psychoanalysis’ by Barry Magid…..although Heidegger is not discussed here I see more than ever some similarity between Heidegger’s existentialism and Zen, his ‘Being-in-the-World’ is essentially non-dual

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Philosophy always seems to come down to the study of language, the history of flux in language and concepts and also, how we ourselves learn. The term Philology seems more appropriate, but the ‘love of wisdom’ is the word we use.

Why? Well, love is always dual (or two sided), you have to take the good with the bad when it comes to love. I guess love is probably the most irrational concept and we are forever trying to make sense of it.

We say ‘philosophy’ because knowledge is something we understand with hearts and minds, even when philosophy is declared as redundant, we still can’t leave it alone! In which case, are we after truth, or something else?

Philology is a rarely used term to refer to a discipline of knowledge, philosophy is the generic term.

To say philosophy comes down to the study of language for me is only part of he story, ultimately I believe philosophy is about ‘how to live’, and ‘how to live correctly’ hence it originally being ‘the love of wisdom’, if we forget it’s application to life and fall into being overly abstract then we start to go in the wrong direction….language is the tool of philosophers, and part of their role is to examine and create ideas to grasp something that hadn’t previously been clearly expressed or uncovered, as ideas are expressed in language we study texts to familiarise ourselves with the ideas of those that have gone before us to try and understand what they were / are trying to say and to apply to our lives if useful and relevant

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Great, I will definitely check that out after The Foucault Reader.

The Foucault Reader is Quality

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