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Pill Pod 98 - Ricky Rorty: Derrida vs. Habermas

PlasticPills - Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast

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I'm Gonna Be the Twitter Marxist and Say if You're Gonna Do Philosophy You Might as Well Do the Fun Interesting Shit

"There's no universalism about moral wrongness or rightness it's just like this specific thing needs to be fixed because of these contingent reasons," he says. "We are the ones who change the world because we are the agents of reason history type of philosophy yeah i mean" He adds that capitalism ain't gonna give a shit whether you do documentary on horrid working conditions in chinese factories or make dramas for netflix. We're more alienated stupider poor than our parents were due to social and legal decisions made where there's accumulated capital not where there's rational conversation so if you're gonna do philosophy you might as well do the fun interesting shit instead of the pretentious,

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