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15 Jan 2020 Conversations with Tyler Reid Hoffman on Systems, Levers, and Quixotic Quests
“One of the expressions I used when I was an undergraduate to describe the kind of philosophy I wanted to do is transcendental anthropology, which is, you’re looking at what humans are doing, but you’re applying Kantian analyses to it in order to derive good philosophy.”
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…Why Aristotle? Well, Socrates, as you know, we basically only know through the writings of a number of his students. I found that Aristotle’s intersection of studying the world and thinking was a much better form of philosophy. This may get back to your Dewey observation earlier, that says actually, in fact, philosophy is not the thing that you sit in the cave doing, but something you do as you participate in society. You still want to have theories of human nature, theories of cognition, theories of how you formulate truthful or false theories of the world and theories of human nature. One of the expressions I used when I was an undergraduate to describe the kind of philosophy I wanted to do is transcendental anthropology, which is, you’re looking at what humans are doing, but you’re applying Kantian analyses to it in order to derive good philosophy. How did your interest in the late Wittgenstein influence the construction and design of LinkedIn? I’m sure they ask you this all the time in interviews.…
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