/lit/ - Literature

>>15457816
I think philosophy is not about getting an answer, but learning to ask better questions

>>15457816
>Has reading philosophy ever left you satisfied with answers to the abstract questions of life, such as whether we have free will or what consciousness is?
No but thinking about those things deeply on my own did.
>All arguments start seeming preposterous, and even previously accepted premises are now in full doubt. The only tenable claims are that other claims can't be proved.
I agree. Whenever I read a philosophy book I can't help but have the impression that I'm way smarter than the author and that I'm wasting my time reading the book.

>>15457816
Cope for midwits who don't have an intuitive lock on their own self and world. Philosophy should clarify and challenge intuitions that are already swimming down in there, if it's literally gibberish to you stop reading it

>>15457816
>Has reading philosophy ever left you satisfied with answers to the abstract questions of life
100% yes.

>>15457901
That's an aesthetic thot picture if I ever saw one. Saved, but not for coom reasons.

>>15457941

>>15457816
Are you sure you're reading philosophy, and not pseud trash recommended by the teens on /lit/?

>>15457816
Read more, dummy.
No good results come from lack of effort.

>>15457901
shame about her tattoos

>>15457867
A+ reading comprehension.

>>15458018
Okay which philosophical text satisfactorily answered the fundamental problems of philosophy to you?

>>15457861
what are the answers

>>15458446
Heidegger - Being and Time
Sartre - Being and Nothingness
Baudrillard - The Perfect Crime
Camus - The Rebel
Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra

>>15457816
Reading philosophy gave me everything I hoped it would, it just took a little while, and going through works in different traditions.

>>15458563
^ Examples of the pseud trash recommended by teens on /lit/

>>15458796
Cope harder, I teach using all the books I mentioned above

>>15457816
No it’s why I stopped reading it and moved on to reading history I’m interested in.

>>15458841
Leftist pseud - the reading list.

>>15458841
Pure garbage.

>>15457816
NOW SAY GOODNIGHT

The more philosophy I read the more I think the Pyrrhonists were right.

>>15458947
>Leftist pseud - the reading list

>>15458841
>all that Verso trash

>>15459022
>>15459000
>>15458947
samefag

>>15458841
Take a seat son

>>15459027
I'm afraid not buddy.

>>15457816
read Hegel

>>15458841
>>15458796
>Cope harder, I teach using all the books I mentioned above

>>15457816
eromanga sensei is bad. like really bad. even worse than oreimo bad.
now dont get me wrong. i enjoy garbage. but even this filth was too much for me to stomach.

>>15459027
Nope, wrong.

>>15458841
you just know this person without ever having to talk to them. he's a walking stereotype.

>>15457816
Had this for ethics.
>"moral compass" a lot different from various other people
>get into ethics because I want to know what is right and what is not
>tfw After Virtue etc

>>15458841
Can I come over to your house? No homo

>>15457941
Ikea furniture, wall art tattoo and asos underwear is not aesthetic kid

>saved, but not for coom

nice try

>>15457867
this.

>>15457816
>It seems that one must just embrace scepticism
Let me stop you right there friend, though you aren't off track...

>>15458446
Spinoza - Ethics

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>>15458563
philosophy by judeo christian bourgeois is always sterile

>>15458841
You will kill yourself, unless you change you ways.

The only purpose reading philosophy can serve is reinforcing notions about the nature of existence you already thought were true. For people who either engaged in hedonistic pursuits or lived in restrictive environments, the discovery of philosophical systems can seem euphoric and life changing- and indeed they may be. But philosophy can eventually only serve to bolster what one already thinks and knows instinctually; every man has his own nature and cannot escape from it. This why the works that seem to be the most veritable are those which have the quality of articulating things one knew already in a more precise manner.

>>15458841
nice collection of jon blowmehard, but how about some philosophy?

>>15462442
source of that pic? I need it for an investigation.

>>15462465
Had the opposite effect for me. Reading politics was just how you described - attempts at reinforcing unfounded beliefs, but philosophy actually made me question my own views.