[b]Jan Mieszkowski
British philosophy: We’re sorry about Ayer.
French philosophy: We’re sorry about Sartre.
German philosophy: We’re sorry about Habermas.
American philosophy: We’re sorry.[/b]
Is it even possible to understand this?
[b]Would have thrived on Twitter:
Pascal
Hume
F. Schlegel
Nietzsche
Wittgenstein
Strictly Tumblr material:
Plato
Leibniz
Rousseau
Kant
Husserl[/b]
Is it even possible to understand this?
Aristotle: I never promised you a good life!
Kant: I never promised you a rational life!
Nietzsche: I never promised you a real life!
Beckett: You’re dead. I promise.
No as a matter of fact, Sam, I’m not. But point taken.
Plato: A good idea is worth dying for
Kant: The idea of the good is worth dying for
Beckett: Dying sounds like a good idea
Or it will eventually.
Philosophy begins when you give up
Descartes: certitude
Kant: dogmatism
Kierkegaard: hope
Nietzsche: philosophy
And in exactly that order.
[b]When I read your work, I feel like I’m
Plato: bathed in sunlight
Aristotle: infused with wonder
Descartes: paralyzed by doubt
Marx: taking to the streets
Heidegger: losing my language
Nietzsche: losing my mind
Sartre: on my 10th espresso
Žižek: lost in a Walmart parking lot[/b]
How about my work, here?