Analytic philosophy

[thedarkages]

After my work was done today, I went on a JSTOR jag and read some Benacerraf, Nagel, and Davidson. The experience reminds me of how powerful and yet how sterile analytic philosophy is. Is it possible for someone to enunciate a truth without denouncing everyone else who has thought about it as wrong? (I mean, an aporematic review is one thing, but Aristotle didn't whale on Parmenides for missing the boat the way Benacerraf gloats over his predecessor, Thomson.)

Comments

[ikkyu2.livejournal.com]

Is analytic philosophy necessary at all? It seems to me that if it isn't, these sorts of denunciations and refutations might serve as a sort of substitute for the people who specialize in it.