Answer to Question #170213 in Philosophy for Vidal

Question

What does this philosopher (Simon Critchley) have to say about critical thinking?

Answer 1

Critchley argues that philosophy begins in disappointment. Two particular forms of disappointment inform Critchley's work: religious and political disappointment. While religious disappointment arises from a lack of faith and generates the problem of what is the meaning of life in the face of nihilism, political disappointment comes from the violent world we live in and raises the question of justice in a violently unjust world