PHL217H1 Lecture Notes - Continental Philosophy, Stymie, Friedrich Nietzsche

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From the value to the virtue of truth. Williams is grouped with the analytic branch of philosophy. He engages contemporary continentalitsts like derrida, and figures from the frankfurt school. He is critical of much of his own tradition, and sometimes unfairly critical. Bernard is as much as part of the continental philosophy as derrida or. It is not just an abstraction or paradox. This question has an ethical/moral side of things. The minimal answer to this question is the problems that he find in contemporary humanities. The idea is that if you abandon the possibility of legitimacy in social truths, you are just left with basic power. The maximal consequence of this is if we deny the truth, we not only lose the legitimate authority of truth, we lose everything. The everything is the common world we interact. The common world consequences has real life origins. Politicians frequently lie to us, and we don"t like it.