MEILLASSOUX and speculative realism by TIM HULL
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Meillassoux is the icon, face of modern continental philosophy. Good on him.
Such a fascinating video. Well done. I'm going to be reading some Meillassoux now.
The ultimate quote, “anti-philosophers always give way for the priests,” is not an inevitable consequence of fideistic belief but an unfortunate one due to people wrongly believing priestlike figures have access to the meaning of things in and of themselves, whereas these people hold no more authority than their followers. Fideism is an epistemically humble position, yet that same humility allows it’s gullible followers to be exploited by sophists and power seekers.
Perhaps in the Christian tradition there will always be room for priests as an institution of truth is allowed for in the Church. This is not the case for Islam, which explicitly denies clergy and thus gives less way for priests.
Moreover, not all priests are bad, it’s the ones that hold claims to transcendent knowledge that are.
can't wait for the next video! this was awesome, thanks!
What alternative does he propose? Explaining the subjective/objective distinction is not what is interesting, what would be interesting would be an alternative. Also form what I heard in this video it sounds like he doesn't respond to idealism? Does Meillassoux reference Schelling?
Overall good video and great narration voice.
His alternative is speculative realism and factuality. I really recommend to read after finitude to get a finer grasp of his philosophy and attitude towards idealism and the likes of Schelling (which he sees as a correlationist as well but one that makes the correlation itself the absolute if i remember correctly). The book is short clear and very enlightening
@@arthurdewaele8338 thank you!
I read some of Meillassoux's works, and they are interesting for sure. I'm not sure its true that non-theistic philosophies take the same view of existence -- only without god -- that Christians take. That part seems a bit overstated.
this is wrong, his philosophy is not Christian, its jewish