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» RLSharp - Questions
In response to Questions posted by pink101:
It might, but I'd have to know what you mean by schools. I'd say that in some circles there are aspects of philosophy that have become completely dismissed. This is especially true in certain Continentalist circles (or postmodern), but then they tend to dismiss everything that isn't theirs 
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There are, of course, people still doing metaphysics, but with the breaking down of philosophy into specialties and focuses and the general attacks on metaphysics over the last century, it doesn't seem likely that we will have another Kant or Descartes or Plato any time soon. By that I mean a philosopher who integrates metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics into his or her overall system. That's a shame because I think that's a critical part of philosophy, that sort of breadth and scope.
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» pink101 - Questions
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Schools of Philosophy such as the Chicago School of Communications which is not a physical building but a classification of the studies involved.
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Is there, for example, such a School of Philosophy to which you might belong?
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» RLSharp - Six Schools
In response to Six Schools posted by pink101:
I'm not sure how that site is dividing them, actually. These classifications are pretty arbitrary. For example, you can have a school of thought like logical positivism, which flourishes for a while and then goes away. Some people might label existentialism a school. I think that kind of thinking oversimplifies the views of the people categorized. But I've never heard of a set number of schools like that.
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» pink101 - Ann Arbor
In response to Six Schools posted by RLSharp:.
I was in Ann Arbor yesterday and I picked up a newpaper to read while I enjoyed my favorite Pastrami & coleslaw sandwich at Zingerman's.
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One of those free newpapers you get in university towns. This one is Phenomenews and it is loaded with every metaphysics operation imaginable. The newspaper calls itself, "Michigan's Body * Mind * Spirit Connection since 1978". 56 pages, it could keep me busy for a week.
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Is that the metaphysics you're talking about?
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» RLSharp - Ann Arbor
In response to Ann Arbor posted by pink101:
That's the kind I'm saying metaphysics has become, yes. Originally, in philosophy metaphysics was where you talked about causality and creation, what's behind the world. For Descartes, it was God, who made a perfect university. For Plato it was the forms, which existed outside space and time and made knowledge and sameness possible.
Today, the term has become a catchall for psychics and New Agers. That's part of how it's lost it's power, actually, but it did so long before that. So if you do a search for metaphysics (or read a metaphysics paper) it will be mostly New Age mentalities, and not traditional philosophical metaphysics.
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» RLSharp - Title of This Site
In response to Title of This Site posted by pink101:
No comment ;).
Seriously, though, the ideas of astrology and such actually come out of philosophy, at least originally. Of course, science also came out of philosophy and many scientists in history were also astrologers and alchemists.
I think we are taught today (perhaps by science, which presents itself as the ONLY right way) that those approaches to knowledge are not only wrong but somehow misguided at a deep level. But I think the categories used on websites (including this one) are more for helping to guide users than any statement on areas of knowledge.
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» pink101 - Title of This Site
In response to Title of This Site posted by RLSharp:.
No comment ;).
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I didn't mean to say anything negative about Suite management's choice of site titles. Instead, I was thinking they were pretty much on board with the ideas involved.
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Everything that's going on in the overall site seems to fit in with metaphysics. How can a religionist of one brand differentiate themself from one of another? How does a Muslim get separated from someone who practices Spirituality or Judaism or Christianity in the general sense of the metaphysical? They all fall under the same rubric, don't they?
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» RLSharp - Title of This Site
In response to Title of This Site posted by pink101:
'rubric' is an interesting choice of words. I knew what you meant. I was just joking with the 'no comment'. What I guess I haven't clearly enough stated is that most philosophers hate the fact that metaphysics has become associated with astrology and psychics and such. That's all I was trying to point out.
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