This whole notion of Analytic vs Continental tradition in philosophy boggles my mind and lowers my already low opinion of philosophy in general even further. If two prominent schools cannot even agree on the basic ideas, those ideas are not worth agreeing on.
I think the philosophy bro also overstates the disagreement. I'm in a philosophy department myself, and I know of no one at the graduate student level or above who thinks there's a serious division along analytic vs. continental lines. Part of that, though, is that much of what was called continental philosophy has now become literary criticism, etc. Part of it is that what got called 'analytic philosophy' 70 years ago isn't really around any more.
This is by no means a consensus view, but I think it's a mistake to think of philosophy as something which pro...
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