A conversation between Robert Hanna and Scott Heftler
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Philosophy Talks, With Bob And Scott is a series of conversations about fundamental philosophical ideas, problems, and topics, from A to Z.
The aim of these conversations is to move us beyond the false dichotomy between Analytic philosophy and so-called “Continental” philosophy–as if there were no other relevant alternatives: but in fact, there is at least one–toward a broadly and radically Kantian philosophy of the future.
This is the fourth episode.
In this episode, we discuss:
1. Research workflow tips from Bob & Kant.
2. The political Right’s cynical strategy for appropriating and inverting the Left’s political rhetoric &…
By Robert Hanna
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You can also download and read or share a .pdf of the complete text of this essay HERE.
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The Point Is To Shape The World: A Worldview In Eleven Theses
Early Marx’s famous philosophical apothegm, “[t]he philosophers have only interpreted the world in different ways; the point is to change it,”[i] is half-right and half-wrong.
Yes, leaving aside Marx himself and a few other philosophical activists,[ii] philosophers have only ever variously interpreted the world.
But no, the point isn’t that philosophers should act upon the world directly and unreflectively, as if they were shot out of a revolutionist’s rifle.
Instead, the point is that philosophers should critically and reflectively shape the world…
An edgy essay by Otto Paans
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. Aphorisms 1–11: Social Dictatorship
2. Aphorisms 12–24: State Power
3. Aphorisms 25–38: Guilt and Exculpation
4. Aphorisms 39–52: Confusion and Control
5. Aphorisms 53–61: The Myth of Order
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State Power
12. How State power works. First, give people some goodies (say, money, property, social status, adult toys, etc.) and let them grow attached to them. Second, demonstrate that you can take away their prized possessions at will. Third, prescribe more and more restrictive rules that must be followed in order for the people to be able to acquire and hold onto their goodies. Carry out this process gradually…
An edgy essay by Robert Hanna
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You can also download and read or share a .pdf of the complete text of this essay HERE.
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The Paradox of Distributive Social Justice
Distributive social justice is the set of moral, social-institutional, and/or political principles, processes, and structures that determine the distribution of benefits and burdens in capitalist, liberal, democratic nation-States.
In their Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy article on “Distributive Justice,” Julian Lamont and Christi Favor quite correctly although somewhat tautologously note that
[p]rinciples of distributive justice are … best thought of as providing moral guidance for the political processes and structures that … [determine] the distribution of benefits and burdens in [capitalist, liberal, democratic]…
An edgy essay by Otto Paans
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. Aphorisms 1–11: Social Dictatorship
2. Aphorisms 12–24: State Power
3. Aphorisms 25–38: Guilt and Exculpation
4. Aphorisms 39–52: Confusion and Control
5. Aphorisms 53–61: The Myth of Order
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Social Dictatorship
1. Ideology. By allowing our intellectuals only to quote others who — no doubt — a are also intellectuals, we create an echo-culture, a circular quotation circus. Only the ideas accepted by the well-learned, or ideas that promise an acceptable deviation are taken up in the canon. Subversion, resistance, daring: these are the names for ideas that feel comfortably dangerous, fashionably critical, and well-educated in a bourgeois way. Don’t be misled…
A Conversation between Robert Hanna and Scott Heftler
Philosophy Talks, With Bob And Scott is a series of conversations about fundamental philosophical ideas, problems, and topics, from A to Z.
The aim of these conversations is to move us beyond the false dichotomy between Analytic philosophy and so-called “Continental” philosophy–as if there were no other relevant alternatives: but in fact, there is at least one–toward a broadly and radically Kantian philosophy of the future.
This is the third episode.
In this episode, we discuss:
1. Embodied Minds in Action (2009) and The Mind-Body Politic (2019), both co-authored with Michelle Maiese.
2. The partially causal, formative, and normative…
By Otto Paans
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
III. The Singular and the Particular
IV. Singularization and Architectural Science
V. Conclusion
BIBLIOGRAPHY
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This is the fourth and final installment, and contains sections IV, V, and the BIBLIOGRAPHY.
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IV. Singularization and Architectural Science
If my reasoning in the previous sections is correct, we should revise our familiar architectural concepts in order to think about the dynamics of architectural design practices and the role they play in understanding what kind of science Architekturwissenschaft is or could be.
In doing so, I’ll build on a proposal made by Irit Rogoff regarding the role of singularisation in creative (not just architectural design)…
By Robert Hanna
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[I] was then making plans for a work that might perhaps have the title, “The Limits of Sense and Reason.” I planned to have it consist of two parts, a theoretical and a practical. The first part would have two sections, (1) general phenomenology and (2) metaphysics, but this only with regard to its method. (Letter to Marcus Herz, 21 February 1772 [C 10: 129])
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A Science of Singulars: On the Nature of Architectural Science, #3: The Singular and the Particular.
By Otto Paans
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
III. The Singular and the Particular
IV. Singularization and Architectural Science
V. Conclusion
BIBLIOGRAPHY
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This is the third of four installments, and contains section III.
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III. The Singular and the Particular
The notion of the spatial singular sits uneasily with our preconceived categories of thinking. Terms like “object” and “context” can be theoretically treated as separate entities, but in reality, they are makeshift notions that obfuscate as much as they reveal. After all, to speak of an “object” in a “context” is to idealize the complexity of the relationships between the two. …
A Conversation between Robert Hanna and Scott Heftler
Philosophy Talks, With Bob And Scott is a series of conversations about fundamental philosophical ideas, problems, and topics, from A to Z.
The aim of these conversations is to move us beyond the false dichotomy between Analytic philosophy and so-called “Continental” philosophy–as if there were no other relevant alternatives: but in fact, there is at least one–toward a broadly and radically Kantian philosophy of the future.
This is the second episode.
In this episode, we discuss:
1. On publishing a comprehensive historical critique of Analytic philosophy, the dominant philosophical tradition in recent and contemporary Anglo-American philosophy.
2. Kant’s standing…
