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Man is part of reality. Since Aristotle Western people live in the Aristotelian Paradigm and consider 'ratio' as above reality and sense as 'white noise', and worship the non-sense 'ratio' as 'god' or understanding.
A malicious paradox.

20th century Philosophy

Age of Modern Calvinism: Ratio, Money and Power

Western Managers play Angels of Death / Industrial Killing (Operations Research approach to life)
WWII was almost result of the unimaginable 'rationality' (reliance on reason alone, felt as arrogance) of the scientist United States president Woodrow Wilson by neglecting emotions at The Treaty of Versailles and making it into one big humiliation ceremony for Germany, and by ruining Germany. WWII followed recession, but was financed by Wallstreet by only valuing 'rational motives', and The Holocaust was made possible by IBM 'rationally' aiming at profit. .
The Great Game: Reducing Ottoman Empire and Persian Empire to Turkey and Iran
US philosophy is controlled by fear, due to institutions like FBI and due to Cold War thinking.

religions cause war, murdering became mass industry: 180.000.000 victims

In WWII help of Lutheran GB+US was needed to beat Lutheran Nazi Germany. Cynical because Wallstreet funded Hitler, and Britain was looking for worldpower itself. Hitler admired and feared Churchill, as a copy of himself. America in this way discovered its own worldpower talents.

After WWI Great Britain and Russia in close cooperation (the great game) robbed an area much bigger than Europe of Ottoman Empire and Persian Empire. America did not react.
After WWII America was rewarded with unlimited influence in Japan, Korea, Philippines and Indonesia (the last 3 countries now have a big calvinist church). America had great power of skill, but no great thinkers.
This was asking for disaster
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After WWII Europe saw great thinkers like Sartre, Levinas, Foucault, ...
The US produced great do'ers, but qua social life the rest of the century got trapped in a kind of positivism.
The huge influence of the US in Europe caused a return of 'rationalism', this ruthless 'Spirit of Capitalism' with the Lutherans had been banned from Europe to The New World during Enlightenment

Developments ON THE BORDER of Rationalism and Buddhism	What you see is SCIENTIFICALLY EXPLAINABLE	What you see is NOT ALL there is
What you LEARNED to see is ONLY RATIONAL	Myths Western Democracy Freedom Of Speech	What you CAN'T FALSIFY is what you BELEAVE
What you beleave is NOT ONLY TRADITION	What you beleave is PART OF TRUTH	Part of TRUTH CHANGES in REVOLUTIONS

Still wet philosophy (after World War I)

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Things to know



Wittgenstein 1889-1951  |----------------.....................------------                                          |
Adorno 1903-1969        |------------------.............................----------------                            |
Popper 1902-1994        |------------------............................------------------------------------------   |
Foucault 1926-1984      |                   ----------------------------........-----------------                   |
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Kuhn 1922-1996          |                  -----------------.................---------------------------------------|
Century 1900-2000       |...........................................................................................|
[Age between 20 and 40]

1. The Wiener  Kreis and Wittgenstein are sometimes said to be part of the Analytic School
2. Popper and Kuhn are said to be part of the Scientific School
3. French School philosophers like Foucault and Derrida are said to be member of Post Structuralism.
4. French School philosophers like Sartre and Camus are said to Existentialist


5. Marcuse became fashionable since Paris student revolution (1968), partly by chance.
6. With Kuhn feeling is left again. The disappearing of the Flower Power ideals.
7. All philosophers between the Spanish Civil War and the expected end of Capitalism
   are bunched by me as economical rationalists or one dimensional men.
   Marcuse being the only exception, tragic because his analysis is right
   but his followers choose one by one for the mainstream.

8. For role of IBM in holocaust go to:

9. For Osama bin Laden, see:

10. Slavery in the shape of exploiting fellow humans without respect is Roman Christian

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The concept 'paradigm' of Thomas Kuhn was mis-used a lot and the essence was fading end 20th century. Start 21th century 'paradigm' as useful view revives.

'Rationality' is demasked as redesigning the world in a desert of 'rich and poor', with oases full of skyscrapers and huge sanddunes with wars on terrorism

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