On the (so-called) Analytical/Continental Divide

“The power of negative thinking is the driving power of dialectical thought.”
—Herbert Marcuse
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class="first">On the (so-called) Analytical/Continental Divide

Post by Parsifal » Sat Oct 24, 2020 6:11 am

I remember first hearing about a distinction between analytical & continental philosophy as a student. Since I was a student primarily of analytic philosophy, very little was said about what, exactly, continental philosophy was. (We had to read Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Heidegger, etc. on our own ... though Kant, who I'm pretty sure lived "on the continent", was discussed daily.)
This always struck me as being similar to the so-called distinction between communism & democracy (as opposed to communism & capitalism).
Isn't the real clash between analytical & dialectical philosophy? Let's call it: analysis & dialectic.

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Post by LapTopPhilosopher » Mon Nov 23, 2020 8:18 am

Yes, analytic / dialectic seems to make more sense than analytical / continental - which makes none! (It's still anal, anyway. LOL)

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