Philosophy As Analysis (Or: “Grand Theory Doesn’t Work!”)

Does analytic philosophy avoid the “bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language”?

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Grand theory was a type of philosophy that tried to understand the world as a whole — the whole shebang, from the “first principle of all things” down to what is really of value to us and what it means to live a good…