The following presentation was made literally thirty minutes before my Master’s thesis defense, when I thought to myself, hey, I should put together some slides! Luckily I had everything I needed already… you’ll have to imagine how I skilfully (ahem…) wove all the slides into a seamless tapestry.
I would like to suggest that we analyze a philosophy not just for its correctness or consistency, but for its underlying metaphors, the degree of consciousness in their employment, the psychological needs met by the philosophy, its psychological distance from body, place, and world, and its consequences for how we live on this planet.