The most imporant defining characteristic of analytic philosophy is that it is terrible. That’s not what I’m going to write about tonight. The second most important defining characteristic of analytic philosophy is a bit more interesting: it is really big on definitions. Analytic philosophy is the foolish dream of breaking down questions like “do we… [Read more…]
June 19, 2011
Writing about the popular perception of fascism in 1944, George Orwell said the following: “It will be seen that, as used, the word ‘Fascism’ is almost entirely meaningless. In conversation, of course, it is used even more wildly than in print. I have heard it applied to farmers, shopkeepers, Social Credit, corporal punishment, fox-hunting, bull-fighting,… [Read more…]
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