{"id":5760,"date":"2017-02-19T11:00:09","date_gmt":"2017-02-19T11:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/02\/19\/what-is-continental-philosophy\/"},"modified":"2017-02-19T11:00:09","modified_gmt":"2017-02-19T11:00:09","slug":"what-is-continental-philosophy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/02\/19\/what-is-continental-philosophy\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Continental Philosophy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">I am afraid much of it fits the following &#39;definition&#39;:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">What is continental philosophy? Continental philosophy is thinking, it is questioning, elaborating questions, making them more comprehensive, deeper, making them worse, proliferating these same questions and adding more and other associated questions. It includes reflection, musing, quandaries, provocations, sometimes it includes comparisons, say, but this was a joke after all, connecting M&amp;E \u2014 analytic metaphysics and epistemology \u2014 to M&amp;M\u2019s. And this range of different things has been true for quite some time going back to the beginnings of analytic philosophy with the Vienna Circle and logical \u2018analysis,\u2019 whereby any time one mentions Vienna it makes a difference to note that one should not forget Freud but one does.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">See <a href=\"http:\/\/againstprofphil.org\/what-is-continental-philosophy\/\">here<\/a> to verify that the above is no parody.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Further thoughts in my <a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/continental-philosophy-criticized\/\">Continental Philosophy Criticized<\/a> category. 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Continental philosophy is thinking, it is questioning, elaborating questions, making them more comprehensive, deeper, making them worse, proliferating these same questions and adding more and other associated questions. 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