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Hey Gang I haven’t forgotten about our Blogging Adventure. Here are the posts left to write:
12) When the Levee Breaks: Hegel, Nietzsche, Led Zep and the Gathering of Spirit
13) Nietzsche is against Dialectic: Why?
14) Optimism as a Pascal’s Wager
15) Book Review: Louis Menand’s Metaphysical Club
16) Review of Jeffrey Toobin’s Article on Senator Schumer
17) Pragmatism as Applied to Friendship
18) Appropriate times for Analysis
As I wrote in part one table of contents of this project, I base these on small drafts I wrote in my journal and sort of write them as I go. We’ll get to these I promise.
The Addition Paradox is a meditation on problems and solutions. The addition paradox is when adding something as a solution sometimes backfires.
Part I — The Proof
James Holbert said to me recently that knowledge must be different from science, because if they were the same, they would be used interchangeably. He says this proof is ordinary language basis to believe science is not the only way to knowledge, and that perhaps there are philosophical, spiritual and religious proofs.
Part II — Some Criticisms
I agree to some extent, with the very exception that scientists sometimes talk about science as being knowledge. Another problem is, of course, people don’t consider science knowledge, but perhaps a good way (or the only way) to get to knowledge. Modern science includes hypothesis and data collection. There’s a problem with definition here — science and knowledge both have fluid, often ambiguous definitions.
Furthermore, as we have said in previous posts for our Summer 2010 Blog Adventure, limitation is not the only form of contrast and definition. These three all juggle and dance together. Science does not have to be contrasted with knowledge, and vice versa. Maybe science can be defined compared to itself, to other stuff and so on.
Here are 5 Key Problems in Philosophy. Philosophy is not limited to these, but I think these ones keep coming up, as opposed to something like Alchemy, which went out with Disco, so to speak.
In Part I, I’m going to discuss some differences between Boulder, Colorado, and then, in Part II talk about contrasts and definition in general. As with the previous posts from our Blog Adventure series, Part II is going to concern limitation, definition, and description. The idea I want to talk about is how definition and limitation are not the only way to describe a subject.
Insider politics: are characterized by old value platforms, older issues, established hierarchies, and established interests. An insider politician could well be President Reagan and President George H.W. Bush. Fichte, as Immanuel Kant’s declared successor, and Nietzsche, who was friends with Richard Wagner, are philosophy insiders.
Joke as a way to introduce the issue
First Person: I want to get a tattoo.
Second Person: Why?
First Person: Because the average man, John Doe, did it.
Second Person: If John Doe jumped off of a bridge, would you do it?
First Person: Yes.
I told my Luggage: “Don’t get carried away.”
We’re going to get back to this, but I want to preface by saying I’m excited to do some writing. I’m at the Norlin Library at the University of Colorado-Boulder, and I’ve got a list of small topics to discuss.
Why am I going to write these? Well, we should cover a motivational theory in metaphysics based on Hegel and Nietzsche (and even Led Zeppelin!) in a few posts.
Additionally, I note that a majority of these come from recurring thoughts I’ve had from the past school year (Fall 2009, Spring 2010), and a journal I have kept. But the point of these posts is to meditate these points — marinate them — and so I’ll be commenting and critiquing them as I go.
Table of Contents and Ambitions (I haven’t written these yet):
1) L’Homme Moyen in Philosophy & 5 Reasons, + Marcuse’s criticism
2) The Hipster Problem of Individuality
3) Insider and Outsider Politics, and an idea of both based on popular culture examples
4) Notes on being in Boulder, Colorado and a discussion of limitation, definition, and contrast
5) 5 key problems in philosophy
6) Holbert’s knowledge proof
7) Holbert’s “only one thing can be said” joke
8) The Addition Paradox: Notes on Problems, Simplicity and Complexity
9) List of Social Graces
10) Reaction to Smithsonian’s Inventor’s Exhibit
11) List of Empowerment Stories, Ideas, and Reactions Thereof
12) When the Levee Breaks: Hegel, Nietzsche, Led Zep and the Gathering of Spirit
13) Nietzsche is against Dialectic: Why?
14) Optimism as a Pascal’s Wager
15) Book Review: Louis Menand’s Metaphysical Club
16) Review of Jeffrey Toobin’s Article on Senator Schumer
17) Pragmatism as Applied to Friendship
18) Appropriate times for Analysis
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