The Organs Without Bodies

Gilles Deleuze was known for his aversion to debate. He once wrote that a true philosopher, when in the bar he hears someone say "let's discuss this a bit", he gets up and runs away as fast as he can. To substantiate this approach, he could have cited the entire history of philosophy. That Plato, the first true metaphysician, wrote dialogues is perhaps the greatest irony in the entire history of philosophy, since his dialogues never involve a symmetrical exchange of arguments. In the first dialogues, Socrates occupies the position of one who "knows he does not know", and in this way destabilizes the alleged knowledge of his interlocutors; in the subsequent ones, it is practically only the main character who speaks, while the interlocutor's contribution is reduced to occasional exclamations such as "it is so! "," By Jupiter, you are right! ", And so on. Rather than deploring this fact, one should go out to meet him and assume him for what he is. As Alain Badiou argues, philosophy is intrinsically axiomatic: the coherent unfolding of an underlying intuition. Therefore, all the great "dialogues" in the history of philosophy have been so many cases of misunderstanding: Aristotle misunderstood Plato, Thomas Aquinas misunderstood Aristotle, Hegel misunderstood Kant and Schelling, Marx misunderstood Hegel, Nietzsche misunderstood Christ, Heidegger has misunderstood Hegel. It is precisely when a philosopher exercises a decisive influence on another that this influence is invariably based on a fertile misunderstanding. Did not analytic philosophy as a whole originate from having misunderstood the early Wittgenstein? you're right! ", and so on. Rather than deploring this fact, one should go out to meet him and assume him for what he is. As Alain Badiou argues, philosophy is intrinsically axiomatic: the coherent unfolding of an underlying intuition. Therefore, all the great "dialogues" in the history of philosophy have been so many cases of misunderstanding: Aristotle misunderstood Plato, Thomas Aquinas misunderstood Aristotle, Hegel misunderstood Kant and Schelling, Marx misunderstood Hegel, Nietzsche misunderstood Christ, Heidegger has misunderstood Hegel. It is precisely when a philosopher exercises a decisive influence on another that this influence is invariably based on a fertile misunderstanding. Did not analytic philosophy as a whole originate from having misunderstood the early Wittgenstein? you're right! ", and so on. Rather than deploring this fact, one should go out to meet him and assume him for what he is. As Alain Badiou argues, philosophy is intrinsically axiomatic: the coherent unfolding of an underlying intuition. Therefore, all the great "dialogues" in the history of philosophy have been so many cases of misunderstanding: Aristotle misunderstood Plato, Thomas Aquinas misunderstood Aristotle, Hegel misunderstood Kant and Schelling, Marx misunderstood Hegel, Nietzsche misunderstood Christ, Heidegger has misunderstood Hegel. It is precisely when a philosopher exercises a decisive influence on another that this influence is invariably based on a fertile misunderstanding. Did not analytic philosophy as a whole originate from having misunderstood the early Wittgenstein? Rather than deploring this fact, one should go out to meet him and assume him for what he is. As Alain Badiou argues, philosophy is intrinsically axiomatic: the coherent unfolding of an underlying intuition.