The Protestant ethic and the spirit of speculativism

In Après la finitude, Quentin Meillassoux puts his philosophical cards on the table: Philosophy is the creation of unusual [étranges] forms of argumentation, necessarily bordering on sophistry, which remains its dark [obscur] structural double. To philosophise is always to develop an idea whose elaboration and defence requires an original kind of argumentation, the model for which lies neither in positive science – nor even in logic – nor in some supposedly innate faculty for proper reasoning. (Meillassoux 2006, 103–4).