Brandom’s favorite philosopher is Hegel, and in this area the most salient difference between Kant and Hegel is that Hegel does not think philosophy can rise above the social practices of its time and judge their desirability by reference to something that is not itself an alternative social practice. For Hegel as for Brandom, there are [...]
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What I Don’t Love About Rorty
Posted in Ethics, G.W.F. Hegel, Relativism, Richard Rorty, Robert Brandom on December 1, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Richard Dawkins is so 1827
Posted in Atheism, G.W.F. Hegel, History on October 16, 2009 | 8 Comments »
One could easily arrive at the view that a widespread, nearly universal indifference toward the doctrines of faith formerly regarded as essential has entered into the general religiousness of the public.
– G. W. F. Hegel, Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion (1827)
What bugs me most about the New Atheists (Richard Dawkins, Christopher Whats-His-Face etc.) is [...]
