What Is Analysis:Rethinking the Methodology of Modern Western Philosophy
The opposition of continental to analytical philosophy is a classic categorical mistake.In light of the work of modern philosophers,"analysis"should not be monopolized by analytical philosophy based on first-order logic,but is more deeply embodied in the three-dimensional-unity analysis of consciousness,the unconscious,and language(modality/structure).The insistence on a false opposition between the two inevitably obscures the overall thrust of twentieth-century Western philosophy into the realm of pure consciousness,the unconscious,and pre-predicate being,as well as the portrayal of the inner structure of this new being.The counterpart of the analysis of modern philosophy is the speculative construction based on it,as exemplified by Freud's construction of the root of inability and Heidegger's existential construction of the origin of art beyond the correlation of noesis/noema.Abandoning the false dichotomy of"analytical vs.continental",a complete understanding of the general progression of modern Western philosophy from descriptive analysis to speculative construction,is of prerequisite significance for us to independently understand the intrinsic connection between modern Western philosophy,natural sciences,and social existence,and then creatively transform the theoretical achievements of modern Western philosophy.