The End of Philosophy

Author: (USA) Cai Hong
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Publish Date: 2001-09-01
Features: Terminator Translation Series. In the face of the immense and ever-flowing phenomenon, the pioneers come and go swiftly, like birds flying through a room lit by lights and then vanishing back into the night. Thus, it is not to understand certain truths, but to grasp all truths, the universal or fundamental truths—the philosophy that sets itself this task is Don Quixote-like, reflecting an arrogant attitude. 20th-century philosophers, such as Wittgenstein and Heidegger, launched a profound attack on what they called philosophical folly, arguing that Western philosophy is a history of error, pathology, or illusion, and that the philosophy commonly understood has already or should end.