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Improve your English with Rorty

8 January 2016 by Krzysztof Skowroński Leave a Comment

Rorty, Education

Let’s take a look at Richard Rorty’s skill to employ some words of the colloquial style into a serious philosophical discourse. I show you this to illustrate the thesis saying that one does not have to separate a heavy philosophical style (and serious issues to be discussed) from the informal everyday speech in order to produce a profound message for both audiences, I mean the professional philosophers and those interested in philosophical issues.

people begin to toss around old words in new senses, to throw in the occasional neologism, and thus to hammer out a new idiom which initially attracts attention to itself and only later gets put to work. In this initial stage, words stand out as words, colors as encrusted pigments, chords as dissonances. Half-formed materiality becomes the mark of the avant-garde (“Deconstruction and Circumvention”).

In some dictionaries and for many speakers, such phrasal verbs as ‘toss around, ‘throw in,’ and ‘hammer out’ are seen as informal, and such terms as ‘neologism,’ ‘dissonance,’ and ‘avant-garde’ (not to mention ‘deconstruction’ and ‘circumvention’ in the title) sound formal. Rorty’s use of such words side by side corresponds to his attempt to widen the philosophical audience in hope to include both philosophers and the readers who are outside of academia.

Filed Under: Reflections

Jose Mujica quoting Santayana – #human

31 December 2015 by Krzysztof Skowroński Leave a Comment

Jose Mujica refers to Santayana’s most famous quotation

We usually think that the new media are away from philosophy. Take a look at the very popular interview these days on Youtube. Ex-president of Uruguay, Jose Mujica, known as the ‘poorest president’ talking about life and consumption, is quoting Santayana: “you must remember the past or be condemned to repeat it.” The original version reads: “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it” (Santayana, The Life of Reason: Reason in Common Sense. Scribner’s, 1905: 284). Interestingly, this quote, although in a back-translation form, is present on a plaque at the Auschwitz concentration camp: “The one who does not remember history is bound to live through it again.”

Filed Under: Reflections Tagged With: Consumption, Mujica, Santayana

Table of Contents

4 July 2014 by Krzysztof Skowroński Leave a Comment

                SANTAYANA: A PHILOSOPHICAL GUIDE

  1. PHILOSOPHY
  • What is Philosophy?
  • The Role of Philosopher
  • Methodology of Literary philosophy
  • Teaching philosophy
  • Universal character of philosophy
  1. PHILOSOPHERS
  • Plato
  • Aristotle
  • Lucretius
  • Berkeley
  • Locke
  • Leibniz
  • Spinoza
  • Kant
  • Schopenhauer
  • Emerson
  • Peirce
  • James
  • Dewey
  1. SCHOOLS AND MOVEMENTS
  • Platonism
  • Neoplatonism
  • Epicureanism
  • Stoicism
  • Thomism
  • Scholastics
  • German Idealism
  • Transcendentalism
  • Utilitarianism
  • Pragmatism
  • Critical Realism
  • Existentialism
  • Analytic
  • Marxism
  • Postmodernism
  1. PHILOSOPHICAL DISCIPLINES
  • History of Philosophy
  • Contemporary Philosophy
  • Ethics
  • Aesthetics
  • Ontology
  • Metaphysics
  • Epistemology
  • Mind-Body (Philosophy of Mind)
  • Philosophy of Religion
  • Anthropology
  • Political Philosophy
  • Social Philosophy
  • Sociology
  • Philosophy of Culture
  • Literary Criticism
  • Philosophy of Values
  1. POSITIONS AND DOCTRINES
  • Materialism/Naturalism
  • Rationalism
  • Realism
  • Scepticism
  • Relativism
  • Epifenomenalism
  1. PROBLEMS AND ISSUES
  • Values
  • Love
  • Education
  • Travel
  • Music
  • Barbarism
  • Fanaticism
  1. DIALOGUES AND DISPUTES
  • Santayana vs. Dewey
  • Santayana vs. James
  • Santayana vs. Royce
  • Santayana vs. Berenson
  1. MEANING, RECEPTION, CONTINUATORS
  • Savater
  • Rorty
  • Lachs
  • Danto
  • B. Singer
  • I. Singer
  • Saatkamp
  • Sprigge
  • Kerr-Lawson
  • Moreno
  1. PLACES
  • Avila
  • Berlin
  • Oxford
  • Cambridge
  • Cambridge (Harvard)
  • Boston
  • Rome
  • Paris
  • London
  1. AESTHETICS, ARTS, AND LITERARY FIGURES
  • Dante
  • Shakespeare
  • Whitman
  • Browning
  • Avant-garde
  • Classic art
  • Barbarian Art
  • Generation’98

11. MISCELLANEA

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