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@philosopherinsults
“fanciful pseudo-explanations”
“Freud’s fanciful pseudo-explanations (precisely because they are brilliant) perform a disservice. (Now any ass has these pictures available to use in ‘explaining’ symptoms of an illness.)”
Ludwig Wittgenstein, Culture and Value
“behave like little children”
“Philosophers often behave like little children who scribble some marks on a piece of paper at random and then ask the grown-up ‘What's that?’ — It happened like this: the grown-up had drawn pictures for the child several times and said ‘this is a man,’ ‘this is a house,’ etc. And then the child makes some marks too and asks: what's this then?”
Ludwig Wittgenstein, Culture and Value
“a distressing penchant for saying things that are obviously false”
Derrida has a distressing penchant for saying things that are obviously false.
John Searle, “Reiterating the Differences: A Reply to Derrida”
“What a strange situation”
“I read: ‘philosophers are no nearer to the meaning of 'Reality' than Plato got,...’. What a strange situation. How extraordinary that Plato could have got even as far as he did! Or that we could not get any further! Was it because Plato was so extremely clever?”
Ludwig Wittgenstein, Culture and Value
“perfect prophets for the weak, anxious academic”
Those who hurled themselves after Derrida were not the most sophisticated but the most pretentious, and least creative members of my generation of academics. . . . Lacan, Derrida and Foucault are the perfect prophets for the weak, anxious academic personality, trapped in verbal formulas and perennially defeated by circumstances. They offer a self-exculpating cosmic explanation for the normal professorial state of resentment, alienation, dithering passivity and inaction.
Camille Paglia, “Junk Bonds and Corporate Raiders”
“you won’t understand it”
“You won't — I really believe — get too much out of reading it. Because you won't understand it; the content will seem strange to you. In reality, it isn't strange to you, for the point is ethical. I once wanted to give a few words in the foreword which now actually are not in it, which, however, I'll write to you now because they might be a key for you: I wanted to write that my work consists of two parts: of the one which is here, and of everything which I have not written. And precisely this second part is the important one.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein to Ludwig von Ficker, in C. Grant Luckhard, Wittgenstein: Sources and Perspectives
“half-jocular pun-juggling”
“In most later essays by Derrida, oracular assertion by dint of jocular or half-jocular pun-juggling has come to replace argument almost completely.”
J. G. Merquior, From Paris to Prague
“much more savage than most of his savages”
“Frazer is much more savage than most of his savages, for they are not as far removed from the understanding of spiritual matter as a twentieth-century Englishman. His explanations of primitive practices are much cruder than the meaning of these practices themselves.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Occasions 1912-1951
I’d exchange any of their works “for the novels they ought to have written”
“Philosophy may be only a shadow of the reality it tries to grasp, but the novel is altogether more satisfactory. I am almost tempted to say that no philosopher is qualified to do his job unless he is also a novelist . . . I would certainly exchange any of the works of Whitehead or Wittgenstein for the novels they ought to have written.”
Colin Wilson, Voyage To A Beginning
“the pride of Lucifer”
Wittgenstein “had the pride of Lucifer.”
Bertrand Russell, The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell
“more performance artist than logician”
“Anyone who has heard [Derrida] lecture in French knows that he is more performance artist than logician. His flamboyant style--using free association, rhymes and near-rhymes, puns, and maddening digressions--is not just a vain pose (though it is surely that). It reflects what he calls a self-conscious ‘acommunicative strategy’ for combating logocentrism.”
Mark Lilla, Review of Derrida’s Moscou Aller-Retour
“it attracted more or less psychopathic personalities”
We nicknamed Heidegger ‘the little magician from Messkirch’ . . . His lecturing method consisted in constructing an edifice of ideas, which he himself then dismantled again so as to baffle fascinated listeners, only to leave them up in the air. This art of enchantment sometimes had the most disturbing effects in that it attracted more or less psychopathic personalities, and one female student committed suicide three years after such guessing games.
Joseph Kockelmans, “Heidegger on Theology”
“a mere tarting-up of old-fashioned conceptions”
“To understand nature, human nature, and the imperatives of social life, it was essential to throw out this meaningless rubbish and begin on scientific foundations. No account that sees Hobbes as other than a secular, materialistic utilitarian is an account of Hobbes at all, which is why Leo Strauss’s attempt to present Hobbes’s science as a mere tarting-up of old-fashioned conceptions of the state as a remedy for sin just misses the point.”
Alan Ryan, The Making of Modern Liberalism
“uncompromising canvas-cleaning”
“Socrates had refused to compromise his personal integrity. Plato, with all his uncompromising canvas-cleaning, was led along a path on which he compromised his integrity with every step he took. He was forced to combat free thought and the pursuit of truth. He was led to defend lying, political miracles, tabooistic superstition, the suppression of truth, and ultimately, brutal violence. . . .
“The lesson which we thus should learn from Plato is the exact opposite of what he tries to teach us. It is a lesson which must not be forgotten. Excellent as Plato's sociological diagnosis was, his own development proves that the therapy he recommended is worse than the evil he tried to combat.”
Karl Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies
“that histrionic mountebank”
“Aristotle, that histrionic mountebank, who from behind a Greek mask has so long bewitched the Church of Christ, that most cunning juggler of souls, who, if he had not been accredited as human blood and bone, we should have been justified in maintaining to be the veritable devil.”
Martin Luther, in a letter to John Stuart Blackie
“I do not agree with Plato, but if anything could make me do so, it would be Aristotle’s arguments against him.”
Bertrand Russell, A History of Western Philosophy
“no one should be allowed to read them”
“Russell’s books should be bound in two colours, those dealing with mathematical logic in read -- and all students of philosophy should read them; those dealing with ethics and politics in blue -- and no one should be allowed to read them.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein, in Rush Rhees, Recollections of Wittgenstein