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What's the point of reading Plato when other people have already read him and thought about it for me? It seems wasteful to disregard 2 millennia of human thought.

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>> No.15817834

Its true. Just read kant and you'll have the fundamentals for philosophy right now. Plato can't offer anything insightful as you'll just laugh at how wrong he was

>> No.15817870

>>15817772
Dude you're right. In fact, what's the point of reading philosophers before 1950? I'm sure modern philosophers have already read all that shit that came before. Just read Chomsky bro.

Idiot

>> No.15817877

>>15817834
Its true. Just read Stephen pinker and you'll have the fundamentals for philosophy right now. Kant can't offer anything insightful as you'll just laugh at how wrong he was

>> No.15817885

>>15817870
Why read Chomsky? Just read Jordan Peterson videos.

>> No.15817898

The trick is to connect semi-obscure philosophers and cultural figures together using a given philosophical framework. How a certian interpretation of an aspect of plato cam be used to connect two unrelated thinkers. That's the trick to getting published...

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>>15817877
Kant was right about everything
Stephen Pinker is just flavor of the month neoliberal philosopher. He hasn't meaningfully changed how philosophy is done

>> No.15817970

If civilization is still going along the same line in a thousand years, I really wonder if a single person will even have enough time to read the whole core chain of philosophy. It already requires a certain degree of privilege.

>> No.15818022

>>15817772
What's the point of reading when other people already read and can summarise the books for me?

>> No.15818182

>>15818022
This, but unironically. It's foolish to not take advantage of the work of others.

>> No.15818223

>>15817772
He's the proper starting point and for many things the proper stopping point. Modern philosophy was is a soulless hopelessly useless mistake. 500 years and all they have to show for it is "hmm we can't really be sure of anything!" Shocking.

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>>15817772
the cave and the light

>> No.15818274

What's the point of reading when you can just stick your finger in your belly button and smell it?

>> No.15818291

retard zoomer

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Yes.
read Gerson
>but wait, oh shit, this makes no sense to me aaaaah my mind is melting!

>> No.15818745

What's the point of reading something if there's a movie made by someone that already read it that has all the good parts?