Ch 3 Two Cultures in Philosophy

Question 1

What is the problem with the distinction?

Answer 1

It doesn’t work geographically. Anglo-Austrian anyone.

Question 2

Which philosophers disagree with each other

Answer 2

Merleau ponty and Ayers

Question 3

What is it then?

Answer 3

A professional self description starting in 1970s in USA. Continental philosophy.

Question 4

What might partisans say?

Answer 4

Precise, logical philosophy versus unclear nonsense speculations. Did the sun exist before humans? Yes versus the question makes no sense.

Question 5

But a professional self description wouldn’t have much bite if it didn’t overlay what?

Answer 5

An older divide simplified by ideas such as French rationalism; British empiricism and German metaphysics

Question 6

What is the relevance of mill?

Answer 6

Identified a continental Coleridge v benthamite approach. Knowing the 2 would give you all. Meaning and truth. Thought of Bentham as practical successor of humean scepticism applied to gov and law

Question 7

Who is conservative and who progressive

Answer 7

Viewed through mill roles are reversed and Coleridge continental preserves traditional and Bentham is reformist.

Question 8

Phenomenology came to be continental through what?

Answer 8

Inclusion of French post structuralists some of whom more or less hostile to phenomenology. Lesser extent lacan, Derrida lyotard. Greater delueze and Foucault.

Question 9

How might one view mills belief about continental as relating to Hegel?

Answer 9

Need to view whole and not just part of whole. Checks and balances. Bit like dialectic.