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>an ontological category has to have being in order to be an ontological category
If this was true (it's not), then non-being couldn't be an ontological category due to it lacking being and hence everything would just be being and there would not even be the possibility of non-being

The way things are right now I can only see two possible futures for civilization

1. A techno-socialist dystopia where everyone lives as powerless, propertyless drones controlled by GloboHomo Inc.

2. A hippy-communist dystopia where the lumpenproletariat that have been rendered obsolete by automation stage a revolution against GloboHomo Inc. and install a Luddite peasant dictatorship, basically the USSR but gayer

Which one is more likely? And which one would be a better future?

Big brain position: personally appalled by abortion; politically tolerant of abortion.

>>14256073
This. Define "is"

Anybody just feel that Western civilization is declining not because of some external threat or corrupting influence, but because of a fundamental spiritual crisis? It's like westerners just don't have anything left to fight for. All those shining achievements and nothing to look forward to. All that's left is drugs, freak shows, debauchery and waste.

And it's not just America&Europe. It's the entire 'westernized world'. From Argentina to China. Everyone.

>TradPrim

Why is the life of the philosopher so horrible and painful without philosophy?

Am I the only one who has realized that Spengler is right about everything?

The Faustian civilization that we live in is in unavoidable decline.

The glory of 'Western' (Faustian) culture ended with the last of its significant philosophers in Nietzsche and Marx.

When a blooming culture begins to die it become a civilization. It expands in all directions for no reason other than to compensate for its lack of internal innovation. It loses all of its vitality and inner cohesion, a grand palace that's all rotting in the inside. It looks big and powerful but will get pushed over by a stiff breeze. Spengler said that the Roman Empire, despite its apparent might, was never able to win a war against a major power after its final victory over Carthage, where it began to decline. The 'West' is that exact same way ever since the Second World War. A big, bloated corpse waiting for someone to poke it for it to explode.

And just in case you call me a smug Asian insectoid gloating at the fall of the West, I genuinely mourn your death because when you're gone it's game over for us too. Democracy, civilization, individualism, all gone. Unless a miracle happens the fall of the West will usher in a millenium of regression and savage tyranny that will cover the entire world.

An anon never posts in the same thread twice.

>win an argument
>call the other person a brainlet
>lose an argument
>call the other person an autist

What are the essential languages one must know to not be a pseud apart from: Latin, Hebrew, Greek, Akkadian, Aramaic, Arabic, English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Chinese, Japanese, and Russian?

>>13479252
this

>>13350192
Only an idiot would want to be a genius, and only geniuses want to be idiots.
They are mathematically the same.

>>13349228
You shouldn’t read Nietzsche at all; read Neoplatonist, the Kyballion, Aleister Crowley and other metaphysical works instead. If you can understand them, you’re already a step above Nietzsche and other materialist.

/mu/ is making fun of us again

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Whom are some women philosophers worth reading?I've that women really do not have a presence in philosophy why is that?