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Are there any contemporary philosophers who actually try to impart wisdom and improve people's lives like the ancient philosophers did? It seems like they've just been talking about language for the past half century or so. They'd rather be clever than wise.

>> No.15476595

>>15476563
>Are there any contemporary philosophers who actually try to impart wisdom and improve people's lives like the ancient philosophers did?
Stephan Molyneux

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>> No.15476596

>>15476563
That branch of philosophy seems to have been taken over by the science of psychology

>> No.15476644

>>15476563
I've been watching avatar and it keeps making me cry. I DON'T NORMALLY CRY LIKE THIS BUT I CANT STOP.

>> No.15476655

>>15476644
You and me both. Zuka's redemption arc is pure art.

>> No.15476664

>>15476655
*Zuko's

>> No.15476696

>>15476563
A significant number, yes. To list a few:
Martha Nussbaum, Judith Butler, Alain Badiou, Kwame Anthony Appiah, and Christine Korsgaard have all written major works on ethics.
>>15476596
You are a retard.

>> No.15476697

>>15476655
It's so genuine and pure. It's sincerity in true form. It's also strange finally seeing how the story unfolds linearly after seeing random episodes on TV 15 years ago. GOD DAMN IT ZUKO WHY CAN'T HE JUST DO THE RIGHT THING.

>> No.15476715

>>15476563
Slavoj Zizek occassionally when he's not talking about politics

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15476746

>>15476715
>*sniff* you see, within a lacanian analysis of avatar, the ability to materially effect the world, you know, ground, wind, fire, liquids and so on they never depict the use of these abilities for sexual pleasure. *sniff* In fact, this is implied when the blind one mentions how rough it is to go bareback. In fact, the archetypal character, the avatar, when he *sniff* controls all the elements, only when using all four simultaneously could true sexual pleasure be attained.

>> No.15476817

>>15476696
Thanks, I didn't know Judith Butler wrote such books. You only really ever hear about her work on gender.

>> No.15477053

>>15476563
Which ancient philosophers tried to help people? I only vaguely remember reading ancients also be clever and talk about language. Did I read the wrong ones?

>> No.15477063

>>15476563
Self-help is not philosophy.

>> No.15477145

>>15477053
Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics, the list goes on.

>>15477063
Sure it is.

>> No.15477170

>>15476817
>You only really ever hear about her work on gender.
Ime you hear a lot of posturing, a lot of people try to talk about here without reading her.

>> No.15477201

>>15476817
Giving an Account of Oneself is her most major book on ethics. But I would like to point out that even her book on gender is very focused on how one should act in response to her observations. She always comes off as almost a pragmatist in her focus on such things.