Josef Mitterer's Beyond Philosophy Serialised

The philosophical literature presents widely different opinions about whether language describes, reflects, depicts, determines, forms, or even constitutes and constructs the world (reality, objects, states of affairs, the facts). Underlying these opinions is another, common opinion that provides an important foundation for contemporary philosophical discourse. It consists in the tacit acceptance of the view that there is a difference between the world and our knowledge of the world, a difference between objects and what we say and affirm about them; and hence also a difference between signs and the objects they refer to, between what we speak and the language in which we speak about it. Josef Mitterer introduces The Beyond of Philosophy

The canon of philosophical problems, especially in epistemology, has changed little since Plato. The problems have outlived the attempts to solve them. At the beginning of philosophy are not problems but non-problematized presuppositions. These presuppositions are dichotomous distinctions such as the dichotomies language-world, description-object, statement-object, being-consciousness, and subject-object. Josef Mitterer's preface to The Beyond of Philosophy

When Richard Marshall offered me to serialize my philosophy, I was in disbelief and rather sceptical whether I should follow his idea. But then I remembered the comic mags of my childhood, Schundhefte in German, with heroes like Prince Valiant or Tarzan. They started out with “What happened so far” and ended with “to be continued” and a cliffhanger ... It didn’t take long and I could not resist the temptation. Austrian philosopher Josef Mitterer introduces a new weekly series serialising his Non-Dualising philosophy.