Jersey Flight: ANALYTICAL PHILOSOPHY- Jersey Flight

Tuesday, February 3, 2015

ANALYTICAL PHILOSOPHY- Jersey Flight

If the justification of reason is itself circular then what is the analytical thinker really doing?

Dry formalism, irrelevant formalism, academic technicality toward the display of superior proficiency?

The whole enterprise seems disingenuous: are analytical philosophers really doing what they claim to be doing?

I suspect this is a cave for people with no imagination/ this is philosophy without creativity/ this is not philosophy, this is bondage, stagnation; this is what it looks like for a philosopher to stand in one place!

What does analytical philosophy really do (the word "really" being a reference to the world)?

Is this the secret path of wisdom? Is this the way of higher men? For here we multiply the questions of grammar; here philosophy is pushed back to bare syntax. This is no longer philosophy but the confusion of arbitrary linguistics, idealistic semantics. Men in search of control discuss the subjectivity of the symbol as though it were the secret path to objectivity.

To be an analytical philosopher is to pretend that one is profound, precisely because one is amused.

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About Me:

Jersey Flight can be considered as a sort of left-wing version of Nietzsche. He is an iconoclast against all forms of cultural superstition, including elitism and academia. His intellectual interests include, defining and expanding the psychological qualities that account for advanced thinking, as well as collaborating a method for its culturation. He has repeatedly challenged intellectuals to transcend theory and fulfill their social responsibility to engage culture through polemics. His writing style is consciously concise; an anti-scholastic, he tries to communicate complex ideas in simple prose. He has written multiple volumes of philosophy that have not yet been released to the public. He is the Director of Interdisciplinary Research at the Institute for Advanced Dialectical Research.