A Brief History of Philosophy

Author: graykane

Date: December 7, 2004

by graykane
12-07-04
Augustine says "lying angels" act as earthly priests falsifying morality. Kant claims that a socially normal person can't differentiate between highest good & demonic evil.
Kierkegaard says ethical appeals to universal truth can tempt a person away from God's plan. Nietzsche suggests bypassing social conceptions of good and evil in order to draw closer to truth.
Heidegger locates the greatest potentiality for being in the experience of alienation. Lacan says that to be free we must move past socially imposed limits into a state of schizophrenia.
Derrida proposes that all structures, both psychological & governmental, falsify their stability on an essentially empty claim.
Dante illustrates a movement through hell in order to find heaven.
This way, guys. We're almost there... Damn this was easy.