Could this reaction against the personal by [analytic] phil… - Bruce Wilshire

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Could this reaction against the personal by [analytic] philosophers … be, at bottom, one of fear? … Are … bright people … blindly afraid of their own precarious identity and unspeakable vulnerability as particular bodily beings?

Bruce Wilshire

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About Bruce Wilshire

Bruce W. Wilshire (February 8, 1932 – January 1, 2013) was an American philosopher who taught in the philosophy department at Rutgers University, from which he retired as Professor Emeritus in 2009. Beginning as a specialist in William James, he became known for his work on philosophy and theater, his criticisms of analytic philosophy, and his interest in Native American philosophy.

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Philosophers who function within analytic traditions tend to reflect on the self in a way that unwittingly impoverishes and objectifies self.

Philosophers conclude that they need no longer participate personally in what Socrates called “the tendance of the soul.”

Philosophy is not exactly science, [analytic philosophers] think, but it must resemble science in its style and mood of detachment: its appearance of being without any particular person’s or any particular group’s biases.

Could this reaction against the personal by [analytic] philosophers … be, at bottom, one of fear? … Are … bright people … blindly afraid of their own… - Bruce Wilshire

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