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How does one choose a philosophy? I have read everything from Plato to Deleuze and mostly been like hmm that's interesting and makes sense as a system but I disagree on certain points. Do I need to start compiling notes to make my own?

Has anyone here studied at EGS? Is it a meme? I am an American philosophy undergrad who wishes to attend a continental grad school. Recommendations?

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Thinking about picking up some Borges. Quick question; what's the difference between ficciones and labyrinths? Seems to have a lot of the same stories... Which one should I pick up?


Also, general Borges discussion.

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What are your top ten philosophy books?

>Parmenides -- Plato
>Less Than Nothing -- Zizek
>The Ages of the World -- Schelling
>Theory of the Subject -- Badiou
>Phenomenology of Spirit -- Hegel
>Logic of Sense -- Deleuze
>Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics -- Kant
>Introduction to Metaphysics -- Heidegger
>Tractatus -- Wittgenstein
>Dissemination -- Derrida

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What measures, then, shall we adopt? What machine employ, or what reason consult by means of which we may contemplate this ineffable beauty; a beauty abiding in the most divine sanctuary without ever proceeding from its sacred retreats lest it should be beheld by the profane and vulgar eye? We must enter deep into ourselves, and, leaving behind the objects of corporeal sight, no longer look back after any of the accustomed spectacles of sense.

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yes, this is a good point. perhaps the question is: how do you feel about the Renaissance? it's one thing to look at the French Revolution with De Maistre et al and say, "the French Revolution was a mistake." we have Moldbug for this; it's not even as heretical a position to take anymore than it might have been a few years ago, i think (and that the Industrial Revolution is an unfolding and inescapable nightmare increasingly seems to be a thing not even worth questioning.)

the Renaissance, tho...taking a hard-line stance on the Renaissance is a whole other thing.

Apply the socratic method.

"Morality is baseless"

"Well if you know that morality is basless, you must know what it is"

"Of course, morality is concerned with what we ought to do, which we can't know"

"Can we know what a farmer ought to do to be a good farmer?"

And so on and so forth.