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Well, it's complicated, but analytic philosophy tends to affirm modern science, whereas continental philosophy tends to be responding to Hegel's idea that our view of reality is ultimately determined by our culture. Also analytic philosophy tends to affirm liberalism, whereas continental philosophy tends to reject it for either socialism or traditionalism.



I think to be clear you need to make it known that by 'liberalism' here you mean classical liberalism -- the meaning of the word as Europeans understand it, not liberalism as Americans understand it. To Americans 'liberal' is a bag into which they shove almost everything .. from quasi-Marxists to Clinton neo-liberals, despite those folks having almost nothing in common.


By "liberalism" I meant the broad sense of democracy plus the free market. You are right, I should have made that clear.




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