You'd be better off forgetting the term "Continental" and instead looking into specific, major thinkers of the modern period - Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Sartre, Derrida, and so on - and the traditions which sprang up around them. As such I don't think there's a simple answer to your question, given that "Continental Philosophy" really just means "Non-Analytic Modern Western Philosophy," which is an incredibly broad and unhelpful category. In fact, if memory serves, the term "Continental" was coined by Analytic philosophers as a dismissive pejorative for any contemporary western philosophical school besides themselves. "Continental Philosophy," on the other hand, is a bundle of separate traditions which just so happened to be more popular in Continental Europe than in the Anglophonic (UK, North American, Australian) philosophical scenes when the term was coined. Analytic Philosophy is a specific tradition. Parts of the northern regions of Europe, Asia (Russia), and North America (Canada and Greenland) are located within the Arctic Circle.It's debatable whether or not Continental Philosophy has a specific set of premises because it's debatable whether "Continental Philosophy" has any specific meaning. ![]() Therefore, the Arctic is not considered to be a continent. The northernmost point of the Earth, the North Pole, where the Earth's axis meets the surface, is not located on a landmass, but on the Arctic polar ice cap, the surface of the frozen waters of the Arctic Ocean. On the surface of the continent, no crops will grow on its frozen four kilometer-thick ice sheet. Mount Vinson is the highest mountain in Antarctica, at 4,892 meters (16,050 feet). ![]() It is the coldest, windiest, highest (on average), and driest continent. The climate is very hostile to almost any kind of life. Earth's southernmost continent is currently uninhabited, beside a handful of hard-boiled scientists, which share the place with emperor penguins, New Zealand sea lions, and elephant seals. Australia is considered to be an island country and a continent situated in the southern hemisphere.Īntarctica, as a continent is, in many ways, an exception. Oceania is a geographic region that includes the scattered islands of Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia in the South Pacific Ocean, plus Australasia, a vague term used to describe the combined area of Australia, New Zealand, and New Guinea (island). Oceania isn't a real continent, a contiguous area of land surrounded by ocean. Asia includes the subcontinents of Arabia (Arabian Peninsula) and India. The most conventional borders between Europe and Asia are along the Ural Mountains, the Caucasus Mountains, and at the Bosporus ( Strait of Istanbul).Īsia is further subdivided into the Middle East (Western Asia), Central Asia, East Asia, Southeast Asia, and Maritime Southeast Asia. The first continent system is the seven continent system consisting of Europe, Asia, Africa, Oceania/Australia, North America, South America and Antarctica. The continent of Eurasia, which is home to the geopolitical entities of Europe and Asia. The continent of Africa, which includes Madagascar, the fourth-largest island on the planet. The Isthmus of Panama connects North and South America. The two continents of the Americas, North America, with the world's largest island Greenland, and South America. ![]() ![]() Its landmass is just under 7.7 million square kilometers, making it about the size of the United States. Watch What Are the Seven Continents What is the Smallest Continent and Largest Continent The smallest continent is Australia. The map shows the continents and regions in the world in various colors. The 7 continents of the world are North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia.
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