/lit/ - Literature

I’ve recently read a few books by Nietzsche; “Thus Spoke Zarathustra”, “The Joyful Wisdom” and “Beyond Good and Evil”. While they were great books full of wisdom, I found that everything he writes just confirms what I already believe. This is a nice feeling, especially considering that it gives me a belief system (belief in myself) as an atheist. However, I keep thinking that all of Nietzsche’s “revolutionary” ideas are over 100 years old and I am curious in what ways Philosophy has evolved since then. I am in search of new and extraordinary philosophical ideas that are a little more contemporary and which take into account all the current knowledge we have attained since Nietzsche. Any recommendations?

>Nietzche's mum: Friedrich, stop being bad!
>Young Nietzche: Hmmmmm, do you mean, "Stop adhering to slave morality," Mother?

Long things short, the philosophy students of my uni are going to ask a meeting with all the philosophy professors because they are fed up by the way it's taught. Our issue is that philosophy is nowadays only history of philosophy, that we don't seen any analytical philosophy, or anything from the pragmatic school. Just, like, it has never been mentioned. That almost all the current thesis currently written are about history of philosophy, about the great, untouchable French philosophers like Foucault or Deleuze. The great idealists, Hegel, Fichte, Schelling. That academia is an ivory tower when there's so much happening currently that would need a philosophical analysis, which is totally absent. I'm not only speaking about direct actuality, but about the internet, the uses of big data, artificial intelligence, automation, the remoteness between people and political actions in democratic countries, ... We want to give the professors practical measures they could take to encourage rational thinking and not learning by heart what name-a-great-french-philosopher said.

We already had a meeting between ourselves and already have some good points, but I'd like to have external commentaries from, if at all possible, philosophy students from others unis/countries to add weight to some comments. That's the purpose of this post: having the point of foreign students, which are taught in another way. We do not have much hope, honestly, but it will certainly make a local impact, as more than half of the students are united around the idea.

Even saying why that's stupid would help, any rational argument is welcome, we're not even sure we're right, but we have enough rational issues about clarity, etc. to ask some explanation, I think. We just love philosophy and that's why we're going to quit next year, we just can't bear to see it in such a reduced state, slowly but steadily dying as its scope narrows itself. Interdisciplinary is what we've bet on.