/philosophy/ - Philosophy

OP here. I didn't know if it is relevant, but I am fairly well-versed in philosophy (the Greeks, etc.)

Getting completely dumbfounded is the point of obscurantist bullshit.

>>586
Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy. Those who idolize "facts" never notice that their idols only shine in a borrowed light

Martin Heidegger, Contributions to Philosophy (From Enowning)

>>587
Well, the continental nutjobs need to justify their pseudointellectual masturbation somehow.

Whatever, you can keep wasting your time reading obtuse decryption puzzles if you want to. I'm sure they make you feel smart.

Psychoanalysis is fucking bullshit and has plagued medical science for a century.

>>595
As empirical science psychoanalysis is pretty much a record of massive failure.

As a subset of the philosophy of mind and conceptual cognition, it's pretty damn interesting.

>>600
I guess so if you want to base your philosophy on nonsense just because it sounds interesting.

>>605
It's not nonsense. It's just HIGHLY speculative and deals with questions that analytical neuroscience does not and will not.

>>611
Allow me to jump in and offer this explanation. What psychoanalysis attempts to do, that neuroscience does not, is explain the mind from the user's perspective.

This is initially valuable because neuroscience explains the brain while forbidding itself from making that leap into explaining the mind. Now, as an existentialist, I'm not to pleased with psychoanalysis. I see it as not willing to fully be a science, but also not willing to fully be a philosophy either. So you end up with this awkward strategy that has trouble defining what it itself is.

For that reason, I prefer existential phenomenology, which necessitates admitting that personal intuition on the part of the observer is the vehicle of discovering the mind.

>>591
Nicely put.