Tuomas Ansio

Student of philosophy

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Reflexive operators (term coined by @Fionnindy) bring to speech the very moment of coming into speech. *By itself* this moment is nothing, or it is withdrawal. A reflexive operator brings to the fore the withdrawal that speech and thought are.

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Holy grail

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@MichaelMcGetti6 I'd say though – and I think you agree – that self-knowledge is knowledge of the world

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@MichaelMcGetti6 This is my puzzle with Kant's Transcendental aesthetic: what's the method of the deduction of the conditions of sensibility?

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Often we assume we know what a concept means without being familiar with the questions and problems that the concept functions as an answer to, ie. the whole discourse in which a given concept plays a role.

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@thomasmurphy__ Further question: is the ideal the source of its own critique? Is it its own measure?

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@MichaelMcGetti6 Glad i got into philosophy when i was 16

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“[...] many of the most eminent and brilliant philosophers in the world can’t make heads or tails of Heidegger" tells all you need to know about this

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@MichaelMcGetti6 have you read Eugen Fink

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@MichaelMcGetti6 Here I meant not approximation of an end, but the repetition *as* the end itself.

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“Philosophieren ist ein fragendes Denken, das nach allem – und night zulezt nach sich selber fragt” (Eugen Fink)

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Philosophy is the most ordinary, because it is thinking, not one of the things we may think. Philosophy is the most extraordinary, because it *alone* is this.

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Love requires attachment and detachment simultaneously.

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Philosophy is not something we do, but something we are. Or even more radically: philosophy is that which we are.

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Self-consciousness cannot be understood as originating through the connection of independent and separate representations together, because this very act of unifying presupposes the original simple unity of apperception.

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Damn.

https://t.co/5O2UsyWoSN

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Saw La Haine for the first time. Fuck. Speechless.

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There's a deep dialectic in the idea of Christian repentance. Namely: even the way one repents is to be repented. This continual renewal is the true repentance that has no end.

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@MichaelMcGetti6 @StarkConor I interpret the demonstration of this claim to be the task of the transcendental deduction

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If thinking is interpreted as merely one of the things we might think of, then it appears that the only way to think of the absolute is to think of it as The Other to the norms of thinking (Meillassoux's "hyperchaos").