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The Sooty Empiric
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The Sooty Empiric is a personal blog at sootyempiric.blogspot.com about philosophy, politics and history. Since 2018, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-18, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog in a thread titled "Against Effective Altruism". The comment only clarifies the term "continental philosophy" and does not judge the writing.
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What Hacker News says?
To be clear, I didn't mean to insult any of Kant/Hegel/Nietzsche. "Continental philosophy" is a term used to describe 20th century philosophers, and to be more specific it was most likely invented as a perjorative by the analytic philosophers to describe the people they didn't like. (eg, Carnap and Popper thought that Heidegger and Hegel were writing nonsense and were fascists.) I understand the modern analytics now…
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