UFOs do not exist? Apparently the world doesn’t exist either….
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Zoam Chomsky’s rabid mantra that UFOs do not exist gets
support, of a kind, from philosophy professor (University of Bonn) Markus
Gabriel in his book (pictured).
The new book that I got this week (as noted here) is a plea
for the new realistic ontology being touted by some rogue philosophers, the
point of which is that postmodernism is dead (along with metaphysics and
constructivism) and new realism takes their place or hoping to take their place
among philosophers of the day.
Immanuel Kant, to whom constructivism is attributed, is
lambasted by Professor Gabriel (and many contemporary philosophers also).
I’m no Kant fan; his convoluted philosophical prose
offputting for me since my college days, and discounted by sensible
intellectuals and academics all over the place.
But Kantian exposition is no worse, and considerably better
than the ramblings of those advocating “new realism” including a guy I actually
like: Slavoj Žižek
I replied here, to a comment from Bryan Sentes, how much I
disregard and dislike modern philosophy – all philosophy from the Enlightenment
period on pretty much – considering it a hodgepodge of linguistic mangling and
intellectual madness.
Jacques Derrida, a favorite of mine, held this:
"Arche-writing" (French: archi-écriture) is a term
used by French philosopher Jacques Derrida in his attempt to re-orient the
relationship between speech and writing. Derrida argued that as far back as
Plato, speech had been always given priority over writing. [From the Internet]
“Plato … in his Phaedrus complained that dependence
on written texts undermines our habits of memory.” [NYRB, June 27, 2019, Page
55]
“Heraclitus: ‘Listening not to me but to the logos, it is
wise to agree that all things are one.” [ibid, Page 57] This to the dismay of a
reader here who thinks “all things are not one” – a modern view.
My point is that modern philosophy has lost its way and is
engaged in conscious intellectual madness, thus providing no help in resolving
reality and certainly nothing relevant to the UFO mystery, as Zoam’s
articulated ramblings confirm.
But the “new realism” is with us and adding to the
existential [in the current misuse of that term] problems we are all faced
with.
Again, I concede that common sense is as good as academic
rumination, and resorting to philosophy is not helpful, although one can find
viable truths in the Pre-Socratics and Platonic/Aristotelian schools which
modern philosophers have corrupted by distorting or “updating” that early Greek
thought.
Gabriel’s suggestion that the world does not exist although
the things in it do exist is a prime example of how insane thinking has become
popular among academics and ersatz scholars.
N.B. I love Zoam Chomsky; it's just his "UFOs do not exist and have never existed" dogma that's at issue.
RR
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