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Topic: Pseudophilosophy


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Pseudophilosophy is used as an unfavourable epithet to describe a philosophical idea or system that the speaker does not like.
Presumably, pseudophilosophy bears the same relationship to philosophy that pseudoscience bears to science.
The charge that Objectivism is a "pseudophilosophy" generally implies disapproval of one of these perceptions of Rand's thought.
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 Pseudophilosophy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The orthodox understanding of pseudophilosophy is any idea or system that masquerades itself as philosophy while significantly failing to meet some suitable intellectual standards.
Here, the label of pseudophilosophy is used to criticise these works as being conventional, sentimental, or platitudinous; and of lacking rigor, system, or analytical content.
Another cultural phenomenon that has been labelled pseudophilosophy is the form of philosophical skepticism that is the central premise of the motion picture The Matrix.
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 Online Encyclopedia and Dictionary - Pseudophilosophy
Pseudophilosophy is any idea or system that masquerades itself as philosophy while significantly failing to meet some suitable intellectual standards.
Ayn Rand's Objectivism is also frequently cited as a pseudophilosophy.
Other works that have been labelled as "pseudophilosophy" include the religious poetry of Kahlil Gibran, the material in Richard Bach's fable Jonathan Livingston Seagull, James Redfield's The Celestine Prophecy and the novella The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho.
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 Pseudophilosophy at opensource encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The term does not appear to be used within academic philosophy.
The charge that Objectivism is a "pseudophilosophy" generally implies disapproval of one of these aspects of Rand's style of thought and presentation.
Another cultural phenomenon that has been labelled "pseudophilosophy" is the radical philosophical scepticism that is the central premise of the motion picture The Matrix.
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