[b]Jan Mieszkowski
What could be worse than the memory of last Monday?
Camus: Last Monday.
Bataille: This Monday.
Kierkegaard: The realization that last Monday was a repeat of next Monday.[/b]
The philosophy of Mondays.
How about this one?
Metaphysics: What is it to know?
Epistemology: What can I know?
Phenomenology: What do I know?
Aesthetics: What do I want to know?
Ethics: What should I want to know?
Logic: No.
He means maybe of course.
Philosophy begins
Aristotle: in wonder
Kierkegaard: in a dream
Nietzsche: in a joke
Camus: in the grave
In the grave is certainly where philosophy will end for each one of us.
[if we’re lucky some suggest]
Reasons to Despair
Russell: You can’t reconcile logic and mathematics
Husserl: Your theory of intuition isn’t intuitive
Heidegger: You’ve failed to pose the question of the meaning of the Being of beings
Beckett: You’re alive
Which one is least likely not to be true?
Logic: A = A
Ontology: A exists
Ethics: A is good
Epistemology: I know A
Psychology: I want A
Aesthetics: Isn’t it time to replace A with B or C?
Or…
Logic: Z = Z
Ontology: Z exists
Ethics: Z is good
Epistemology: I know Z
Psychology: I want Z
Aesthetics: Isn’t it time to replace Z with Y or X?
Deleuze: Something in the world forces us to think
Husserl: Something in the world forces us to think about something
Beckett: Something in the world forces us to think that the only something is nothing
Next up: Nothing in the world.