The continental, platonic, literary method allows loading, framing, obscuring, idealizing, conflating, and inflating.
This makes it easier to insert value judgments into an argument or explanation or narrative. German language is psychological, not legalistic, and uses constructed not appropriated terms. The germanic revolt against empiricism was an attempt via kant to create the equivalent of faith by reason. So continental philosophy is closer to scripture than legal testimony. And psychological rather than evidentiary. So it’s an easier ‘sell’. Becaue the reader is reinforced along the way rather than laboring until the end to determine whether something is true and good or false and bad.
Source date (UTC): 2023-02-20 15:56:09 UTC
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