willow: "Pragmatism claims that the philosophical impulse begins when one encounters problematic situations, a failure that forces one into reflection. I can confirm that this is true because my life is a recurrent series of failures."

Alt Text

Pragmatism claims that the philosophical impulse begins when one encounters problematic situations, a failure that forces one into reflection. I can confirm that this is true because my life is a recurrent series of failures.

October 17, 2023 at 4:12 PM

willowOct 17, 2023

in my head it was a lot more quippy and less dour

willowMay 26, 2025

Hegel. The Difference Between Fichte’s and Schelling’s System of Philosophy

https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/works/fs/ch01.htm#:~:text=The%20Need%20of%20Philosophy

When the might of union vanishes from the life of men and the antitheses lost their living connection and reciprocity and gain independence, the need of philosophy arises. From this point of view the need is contingent. But with respect to the given dichotomy the need is the necessary attempt to suspend the rigidity opposition between subjectivity and objectivity; to comprehend the achieved existence (das Gewordensein) of the intellectual and real world as a becoming. Its being as a product must be comprehended as a producing. In the infinite activity of becoming and producing, Reason has united what was sundered and it has reduced the absolute dichotomy to a relative one, one that is conditioned by the original identity. When, where and in what forms such self-reproductions of Reason occur as philosophy is contingent. This contingency must be comprehended on the basis of the Absolute positing itself as an objective totality.

willowNov 28, 2024

one of the many reasons i enjoy wittgenstein is that he articulates one elaboration of hegel's dictum: "philosophy arises when life has lost its unity" www.marxists.org/reference/ar...