Citas de Simon Critchley

• I have argued that philosophy doesn't begin in wonder or in the fact that things are, it begins in a realization that things are not what they might be. It begins with a sense of a lack, of something missing, and that provokes a series of questions.

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  Philosophy, Missing, Realization

  "Demand Everything!". Interview with Anders Gullestad, www.truth-out.org. May 15, 2010.

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• It is so ridiculous to limit oneself to one version of the truth.

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  Limits, Ridiculous, Oneself

  "Dead philosophers society: an interview with simon critchley". Interview with Andrew Gallix, www.3ammagazine.com. February 15, 2009.

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• Siempre me ha gustado mucho Pascal, y lo que más me gusta de Pascal es su énfasis en la desdicha humana. Tiene una frase que dice algo así como "Ansiedad, aburrimiento e inconstancia, esa es la condición humana" y siempre me ha gustado mucho.

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  Boredom, Anxiety, Phrases

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• Just to say "Well, God is dead" in one breath is to say, in another, that nothing means anything. This is the moment of nihilism. Nihilism is the affirmation of meaninglessness.

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  Mean, Nihilism, Affirmation

  "Nihilism, punk and the international necronautical society: an interview with simon critchley". Interview with Steven Fowler, www.3ammagazine.com. March 30, 2009.

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• For me philosophy begins with these experiences of disappointment: a disappointment at the level of what I would think of as "meaning," namely that, given that there is no God, what is the meaning of life? And, given that we live in an unjust world, how are we to bring about justice?

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  Disappointment, Philosophy, Thinking

  Interview with Jill Stauffer, believermag.com. August 2003.

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• La única respuesta a la cuestión del sentido de la vida ha de partir del hecho de nuestra finitud humana, de nuestra vulnerabilidad y nuestra falibilidad.

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  Meaning Of Life, Answers, Facts

  Simon Critchley, Carl Cederström, Todd Kesselman (2011). “Impossible Objects”, p.33, Polity

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• Si la negación de la muerte es odio a uno mismo, como lo es negar nuestra libertad y vivir con miedo a la muerte (es decir, vivir en una forma de esclavitud), entonces la aceptación y afirmación de la muerte es, en efecto, una forma de amor propio. Pero me gustaría distinguir entre una forma de amor propio que es esencial a lo que significa ser humano, y un narcisismo de autoestima, como la distinción de Rousseau entre amour de soi y amour propre, amor propio y orgullo.

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  Mean, Pride, Acceptance

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• That is to say, politics is essentially about the management of fear, an economy of fear, continually adjusting the level of fear to produce the right level of affect in the citizenry.

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  Levels, Adjusting, Management

  Simon Critchley (2008). “Infinitely Demanding: Ethics of Commitment, Politics of Resistance”, Verso Books

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• It's complicated. On the one hand we're killer apes, and on the other hand we have this metaphysical longing.

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  Hands, Killers, Apes

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• Humour is human. Why? Well, because the Philosopher, Aristotle, says so.

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  Philosopher, Humour, Wells

  Simon Critchley (2011). “On Humour”, p.34, Routledge

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• The philosopher is someone who doesn't know, but who wants to find out.

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  Want, Philosopher, Knows

  Simon Critchley, Carl Cederstr?m, Todd Kesselman (2013). “Impossible Objects”, p.32, John Wiley & Sons

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• Philosophy, for me, is a way of relearning to look at the world, a world that is familiar to us, that we know, that is shared by all human beings and also by nonhuman beings.

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  Philosophy, Looks, World

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• El humor genuinamente genial reconoce el mundo que describe y, sin embargo, también nos cuestiona. Eso es lo que debería hacer el gran arte. Eso es lo que debería hacer la gran filosofía. Lo que tiene el humor es que es una práctica cotidiana que hace esto.

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  Art, Philosophy, Practice

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• There are lots of stories about how philosophy begins. Some people claim it begins in wonder; some people claim it begins in worry. I claim it begins in disappointment.

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  Disappointment, Philosophy, People

  Simon Critchley, Carl Cederström, Todd Kesselman (2011). “Impossible Objects”, p.31, Polity

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• I think that when people are at their best, when they are thinking, reflecting, cogitating, then they are doing philosophy. So I don't see philosophy as an academic enterprise.

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  Filosofía, Pensamiento, Personas

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Philosophy isn't programmed into us, and a lot of the forces of our culture steadfastly work against it. Philosophy, for me, is a way of resisting the nihilism of the present by making, creating, affirming. By going on.

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  Philosophy, Creating, Nihilism

  Simon Critchley, Carl Cederström, Todd Kesselman (2011). “Impossible Objects”, p.46, Polity

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• La paz no es más que la regulación de la economía psicopolítica del temor y el miedo reverencial, de la utilización de la amenaza del terror para atar a los ciudadanos al circuito de su sometimiento.

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  Order, Political, Citizens

  Simon Critchley (2008). “Infinitely Demanding: Ethics of Commitment, Politics of Resistance”, Verso Books

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• For me, philosophy is an activity of thought that is common to human beings. Human beings at their best.

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  Philosophy, Common, Being Human

  Simon Critchley, Carl Cederstr?m, Todd Kesselman (2013). “Impossible Objects”, p.33, John Wiley & Sons

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• When the animal becomes human, the effect is pleasingly benign and we laugh outloud, "Okay come clean now. This isn't really about hunting, is it?" But when the human becomes animal, the effect is disgusting, and if we laugh at all, then it is what Beckett calls the "mirthless laugh", which laughs at that which is unhappy.

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  Animal, Hunting, Laughing

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• The other side of my work is political disappointment - the realization that we are living in an unjust world. "Blood is being spilled in the merriest way, as if it was champagne," Dostoevsky says. That raises the problem of justice, what it might mean in an unjust world and whether there can be an ethics and a political practice that would be able to face and face down the injustice of the present. How might we begin to think about that?

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  Disappointment, Mean, Thinking

  "Demand Everything! An Interview With Philosopher Simon Critchley". Interview with Anders Gullestad, truthout.org. May 15, 2010.

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• Philosophy is the art of dying.Philosophy is an activity that has always been concerned with how one seizes hold of one's mortality, and I see myself continuing a very ancient tradition that goes back to Socrates and Epicurus, which is that to be a philosopher is to try and learn how to die. In learning how to die, one learns how to live.

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  Art, Philosophy, Dying

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• We might even define the human as a dynamic process produced by a series of identifications and misidentifications with animality.

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  Might, Identification, Process

  Hans Jonas Professor of Philosophy Simon Critchley, Simon Critchley (2011). “On Humour”, p.39, Routledge

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• Christianity in the West, opens up a perspective of depth into what it means to be a self. And that depth of the self is something that is experienced in the sight of God. So that the great thinkers of self and subjectivity are Paul and Augustine. They look at the self from the perspective of God and they find themselves wretched and interesting. Constituted by conflictual desires.

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  Mean, Sight, Self

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• The influence of being in New York, made me realize a lot of the ethical and political ideas I want to push or promote are best articulated within an anarchist program.

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  New York, Ideas, Political

  "Demand Everything! An Interview With Philosopher Simon Critchley". Interview with Anders Gullestad, www.truth-out.org. May 15, 2010.

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• Obama dreams of a society without power relations, without the agonism that constitutes political life. Against such a position one might assert that justice is always an agon, a conflict, and to refuse this assertion is to consign human beings to wallow in some emotional, fusional balm.

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  Dream, Emotional, Justice

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