Five Minute Philosophy - Quentin Meillassoux's "After Finitude"

In our first episode, we break down Quentin Meillassoux's seminal work on speculative realism entitled "After Finitude."
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[@WhatsThatNoiize]

Having read Kant as a part of my undergrad and After Finitude on the recommendation of a friend, I feel relatively confident in expressing: this is a fantastic summary of what I myself could only describe as "word vomit from a half-baked contrarian". None of that being your fault, of course. You did great!

[@DANTE-kg4zg]

It’s really not a word vomit. Meillassoux has basically no neologisms (unusual for a metaphysical philosopher) except for correlationism, subjectalism and facticity (nomic and noetic).

[@edwinbywater]

"Having read Kant". Sorry to hear about you being brainwashed. The rest of us are here in the great outdoors.

[@DANTE-kg4zg]

@@edwinbywater Why even try to read Meillassoux without having read Kant that's the question though...

[@philosophytv7822]

Ayy bro this is dope! I also just recently started a philosophy youtube channel! Thanks for the vid bro

[@____-oc1bl]

Michel Bitbol wrote an answer to this book, "Maintenant la finitude", if you could make a video of it.

[@____-oc1bl]

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[@domdroi2ognimod705]

Bitbol's book is unnessary

[@memezcat6061]

@@domdroi2ognimod705 why is that?

[@kilometrelercemilimetrikhesap]

Thank you for the video. But Meillassoux's position is speculative "materialism", not "realism". He also explains that correlationism is not an anti-realism but an anti-absolutism. That might also have to do with him not calling himself a realist.

[@qanishque]

You're on point❤

[@emerolliss]

nice

[@Centraxio]

Do a video on logical fallacies or introspective illusion!

[@sergeydenisov15]

how this drawing-on-fly presentation was made?

[@mrhanky5851]

You can pay on fiver for it easily. Some do it manually but this is software where they just plug in assets and the hand is an animation tracing them.

[@sergeydenisov15]

@@mrhanky5851 "and the hand is an animation tracing them" -thank you for that. I was too naïve & believed it is something in the making

[@2tehnik]

Mf for real thought that carbon dating deboonks Kant? But the whole idea for Kant is that time is just the form of our sensible intuition. Just assuming you can extend it outward to noumena is dogmatism. I take it for a Kantian carbon dating or fossils or whatever only makes sense insofar as it says something about possible experience. For example, that I would see Dinosaurs however way back had I been alive since then and up to now. I’m also not sure how one could even go about believing reason has anything to do or know about reality if the PSR is true. Hell, the fact that there’s any regularities in nature seems to be a miracle.

[@juostion2]

No, he asks how Kantians could explain the meaning of scientific statements such as "the earth came into being 4.56 billion years ago." Either you accept that as true, and that means that the transcendental subject "takes place" AFTER being, that there IS an absolute time in which Kantian time emerges, or you result to religious arguments of some being with though always existing.

[@2tehnik]

@@juostion2 what? This is just begging the question on the part of transcendental realism. A Kantian, as far as I know, would say that you shouldn’t talk about whether “something always existed,” because that’s a category mistake. Time is the form of our sensible intuition, and not something we should project onto things-in-themselves.

[@juostion2]

@@2tehnik and so how would they explain the statement?

[@2tehnik]

@@juostion2 I think by just saying that it’s about possible experience.

[@sergeydenisov15]

To me it looks as a trivialization of a very deep work by Meillassoux... but there is nothing malicious & popularization sets a specific format anyway

[@aladdinbinschamar2442]

Bro's five minutes on youtube was contingent