Reply to Chinese Dialectics w/ @tenshi_anna by timmytalks
Taking notes on this space
Continuity and change
Lenin's Materialism and Empirio-criticism
Criticism of abstract thinking
There's no fundamental difference between practice and theory, they're intertwined
Correlative thinking
Slave thinking of Plato and Aristotle, strong line between theory and practice
Modern "Democracy" is Aristotelian, based on slavery of the mind
Rather than this large empire of Mandate of Heaven, bottom-up democracy in a non-cringe way
What about the Founding Fathers of America? was there any dialectical Mandate of Heaven type of thinking among them?
The popularization of dialectical materialism among Chinese academics, since Chinese are very pragmatic
Concrete philosophy of concrete correlations
Thinking about what is American Dialectics
American Pragmatism, Transcendentalism
Hermeticism was kinda the dialectics of Western thought
Anna mentions that Luigi whatever thought religion was an evolutionary thing
Voltaire and Leibniz
Questions about Deng Xiaoping
Special Economic Zones
The one who rules should not be a commander, but a teacher
The Age of Enlightenment
Anna defends the Enlightenment, against Heidegger, for saying Enlightenment is more of a Chinese thing
Victoria Lady Wilby, invented "significs" which Anna says is basically a Christian mysticism
Origins of Pragmatism
Semiotics
Symbolic clarification, distillation of complexity into simplification
Rhetoric, how to connect with people
Education should answer the question "so what?" ideas should be useful to people
This is what the Hegelian e-girls sought to do
People want ideas that matter
Same with CCRU
The Anna vs Haz space was great
Mongolian Descartes is kinda Deleuze and Guattari
Anna thinks Heidegger is secularizing Catholic thought, this is something they didn't get into on the confront the chairman space
The question of America's rootlessness, and its newness
Our continuity will be different from ancient civilizations, we lack a land-based ancient history, but we must establish continuity
Perhaps the Bible is the ancient history which we tap into
Ask Anna for the essay about the essay about Puritans
Divine Right of Kings was misused, but it could be used correctly and become like the Mandate of Heaven
How to liberate American identity from consumerism