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).