#aporetic

[thedireful]

desire, ex: the unsightly ground whereon suffering inscribes itself.

[misterparadigm]

Feminism in Philosophy: Derrida and Phallogocentrism

On the high-end of feminist philosophy, they're talking about Derridian ideas, so I figured I'd offer you all some understanding of what's going on up there, from what I can gather. That way any of you feminists out there, if you run into these types, can argue or agree at the resolution of the philosophers among you.

Basically it centers around "phallogocentrism," which just means that language ("logos") has historically been wielded to establish a "phallocentrist" (masculine-focused) culture, and that it has been a slow, deliberate process for most--if not all--of human history. The context clues in the etymology will help you remember:

"Phallus-" = Dick "Logos-" = Language "Centric" = Point of Focus or Origin

"Phallogocentrism" = "A focus on dick language," or, a euphemism: "The privileging of the masculine in the construction of meaning." ----------------------------------- Some other words you might run into along the way: Aporetic/Aporia: Aporia is knowledge which is indeterminate as a result of being based on contradictory or irreconcilable sets of information. So, ideas that don't have solid answers because language is insufficient in attempting to puzzle out the details. Apodictic: Conversely, apodictic knowledge is knowledge based on determine or "indisputable" information. Sort of. It's information that, at the very least, is functional within an established and cohesive framework of knowledge. Example: Physics is a system of apodictic information which functions predictably within natural law as we observe it. Social Justice is a system of aporetic knowledge, as terms can be deconstructed and reconstituted with variable definition and is determined primarily by naturally relative moral dictum.

[michaelrdjames]

A Philosophical History of Psychology, Cognition, Emotion, Consciousness, and Action: Vol 4: (Aristotle's Metaphysics, Politis, Shields, Heidegger)

A Philosophical History of Psychology, Cognition, Emotion, Consciousness, and Action: Vol 4: (Aristotle’s Metaphysics, Politis, Shields, Heidegger)

Email Address: Subscribe Aristotle’s work “Metaphysics” relates his earlier reflections on ousia (primary unchanging substance) to investigations in the realm of special ontology(the realm of the world of change) and relates both of these aspects to the investigation of “First Philosophy” into “to on he(i)”(general ontology). This latter investigation begins with the strategic aporetic advice,…

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