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>>18449965
>There's no rational reason
Let me stop you there.

Theres no rational reason to read any philosophy, period.

There's no rational reason to read any philosophy by Plato and Aristotle.

Stupid frogposter

>>18449974
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>>18450020
Spot the midwits.

>>18450032
I’m not at the gym

Plato and Aristotle are the only philosophers an intelligent person absolutely needs to have read.

>>18450032
I'd rather be a midwit than whatever you are.

>>18449965
Correct.

>>18450044
>stop eating beans! let rich people make all the decisions! dont measure - just think!

yeah man sure. Plato is all you need

>>18450032
Produce a defensible rationality that is itself rational, that is, which does not rely on tautology or auto-contradiction, or in the case of Hegel, both, simultaneously.

>>18450084
Plato and Aristotle

philosophy is fun
but when philfags here take it so seriously that it affects their lives it's just midwit behavior and pathetic

>>18450124
>you shouldn't live by your convictions of thought
>be a trifling hobbyist faggot like me

>>18450129
>muh thought
wtf are you living like? are you living the "good life" mr philosopher told you to live like?
you learn about life by going outside not by reading shopyheur crying about women

>>18450157
>>18450124
Not him but you should really go back to redddit where you belong tourist.

>>18450157
I'm sacrificing my own happiness to try help save humanity. It's totally thankless, but it's the right thing to do.

>>18450166
been here longer than you
that's why I am sick of this romanticized pseudo intellectual bullshit
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>>18450113
oh son, read.

>>18450175
Thinking philosophy is just for fun is the definition of "psuedo intellectual bullshit". I'm not going to ask you again buster, back to your containment website before daddy gets mad.

>>18450175
>indulging in mental masturbation as the world's careening off a cliff
Truly intellectual

>>18450077
the beans attitude is pythagoras, no?

>>18449965
Disagree. Plotinus is the apex of philosophy and masterfully synthesizes Plato and Aristotle. You want to make it to him at least. Anything after 1500AD can be thrown in the trash though

>>18450167
No need to sacrifice your happiness, I don’t believe. What are you doing to save humanity?

>>18449965
Except to be captured by the beauty of it, that is.

>>18450191
Same as you butters. Shitposting on /lit/

>>18450182
thinking you are more than a hobbist when it comes to philosophy is pseudo intellectual bullshit
don't flatter yourself
you can't argue without rhetoric that's why your go to argument is 'lolz guysss he is from reddit we based 4channers better than him lolzzz I will use that pic I use everyday to get 2 (you)s"

and you also used the word buster
totally pathetic and cringe
but don't you now tell me you are one of those autodidact philfags thinking they'll make a difference? insult me all you want but please don't tell me that. It will be too laughable

>>18450203
You made daddy mad you faggot little queer. Now sit down on your behind and suckle on your pear! Faggot bitch

>>18450219
all this philosophy still can't form arguments without use of 3rd grade rhetoric to manipulate laughs out of people rather than making a point
time well spent on the texts I can see

>>18450203
My great work will change everything, or I'll die trying. You'll never know what that passion and drive is like, and will die a nobody, you anemic wastrel.

>>18450189
yes but Plato fucking loved it.

>>18450253
>mommy me will go down in history mommmy
>passsion mommmyyy it's maaah passsionnnn
>driveee mommy only I have drive in this worlddddd
literally everyone thinks like this
not special enough homie

>>18450260
No, manchildren like you just want to collect funko pops as your highest aspiration. Maggot man is indeed swarming in the foreground and it makes my job of saving you people very tiresome.

>>18450283
I have made 0 assumptions about you this far
and look at your responses
how are you going to save people with philosophy when your thought process is so NPC like?
I have achieved more shit in a month than you did in your whole life mate
you won't say this shit IRL
live in your superiority here but people will look down on you and you know that too
so idk really why are you trying to save people? change yourself first

>>18450241
Why would I argue with a tourist who thinks the western canon is a play ground, and not only thinks this but actively believes this in some sense makes him morally superior. Go be shallow somewhere else mouth opener (I think you know where).

>>18450297
It isn't even superiority. It's just living according to the precept that we have to try avert the coming disaster, while you carry on like an oblivious lemming. No assumptions needed there, it's quite evident. Look, I'm no genius but I didn't know what else to do but learn. It's true 98% of philosophy is bullshit and so unfit for the task ahead. But you wouldn't know that, as you just enjoy it as entertainment. Not sure how to communicate the gravity of the situation, but one day you may well remember these posts as shit flies south and you realize you frittered your life away on trivial matters instead of living for the cause.

>>18450330
You must spend too much time on the internet or reading news. As you more experienced in life, you'll see you're greatly overreacting to whatever it is you believe you'll "save humanity" from.

>>18450344
Not him, but you're no where near as intelligent as you think.

>>18450344
>like 5 major crunch time existential threats in the post
>AI will take one look at the state we're in and eliminate us in a nanosecond
>drones already autonomous
>west shitting itself, totalitarian China on the rise
>ecosystem on verge of collapse
>you're just paranoid XD
Playing bitch

>>18450366
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>>18450330
What's your age
Tell me now
If it's above 20 and you still act this way then ngmi

>>18450369
>>AI will take one look at the state we're in and eliminate us in a nanosecond
Oversensationalized and no where near as advanced as your tech blogs state.
>>drones already autonomous
You mean autopilot? Almost every plane is autonomous if that is your definition.
>>west shitting itself, totalitarian China on the rise
What else is new? The west (more an anachronism than not) has always been collapsing on itself even at its supposed heights of glory. It's a healthy process.
>>ecosystem on verge of collapse
Admittedly this one is unfortunate as I like animals but ultimately the world will adapt as it always has. The world has adapted to worse problems than what we have today.

>>18450366
Grow up.

>>18450388
You're a real stupid cunt. Cambridge even has a centre dedicated to studying existential risk and they say governments are radically underprepared. It's not just me saying this. We're fucked man, how can you be so flippant and careless?

>>18450409
From 1 to 10
How would you rate the control you have over your life

>>18450400
>AI isn't that advanced yet
But it will be in mere decades.
>that's just autopilot
Killbots without human oversight is a bad development.
>the west collapsing is a good thing
Not when what replaces it is a far worse dystopia.
>we'll survive the general mass extinction
Incredibly naive, blind faith position.
Also there's a nuclear arsenal in play and just look at leaders of the US and Russia. Aging equipment too. And resource depletion, etc.

>>18450419
7. No one bothers me, I just study in peace and sometimes come here to blow off steam.

>>18450454
How would you save us from all of this with philosophy lad

>>18450470
I'm not 100% sure yet. But at least I'm thinking about it, instead of blocking it out and pretending it isn't real like the vast majority.

>>18450419
100%. But I am an illusion.