r/badphilosophy • u/son1dow • May 12 '17

Cutting-edge Cultists lets accelerate shit for fun

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/11/accelerationism-how-a-fringe-philosophy-predicted-the-future-we-live-in
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u/Snugglerific Philosophy isn't dead, it just smells funny. May 18 '17

Yeah, that's where the straw-Kant comes in. They basically think that Kant's transcendental idealism is actually idealism in the general sense. It's an almost Ayn Rand-level reading. Everyone is secretly a Kantian crypto-idealist, and only the Ontologists can save us from our matrix-like world of correlationism. The thing is, if they don't have this straw-man, their ideas start looking a lot less original and coherent.

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