/lit/ - Literature

>>18463917
>what do I get if I synthesize a transcendentalist and a soulless materialist
I don't know, they probably cancel each other out and you get a stock standard normalfag

>>18463917
Plentoin!!

>>18463921
Specifically, I'm referring to Courtois' and Popper's allegation that Plato was some kind of crypto-commie and taking it unironically.

>>18463917
Plain Platonism. The Bolsheviks wanted to be philosopher kings

>>18463917
Nothing. Bolsheviks banned all idealist books. Lenin likely hadn't read Plato and all and if he did he hated him

>>18463930
Popper was the 2nd biggest charlatan in the history of philosophy

>>18463930
>>18464047

>>18463930
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/plato-ethics-politics/#Comm

>>18463921
So Aristotle?

>>18464424
You are not being amusing, you are being retarded. Your go to normalfag centrist philosopher should be Kant if anything. Aristotle is pro-transcendence.

>>18464529
Kant's philosophy is literally called transcendental idealism.

>>18463930
>Popper
Please tell me there wasn't a single paragraph in the Open Society that you took seriously and didn't tear the book to shreds after the Aristotle/Hegel chapter
>>18464047
Holy mother of based

>>18464705
If you actually read philosophy instead of shitposting on /lit/, you would know that Kantian "transcendentalism" has nothing to do with transcendentalism as literally everyone else had been using the term before him. Same is true for noumenon, organon, dialectic, etc. Kant really got filtered by the greeks desu.

>>18463917
Plenin

>>18464745
I am a philosophy major. I have not heard "transcendental" used once fot anyone prior to Kant. You using it that way gave it away that you're an autodidact.

>>18464878
>fot
*for

>>18464878
Well, the guy got his ideas across quite clearly, while you sound like an insufferable brainlet.

>>18463917
Autism

>>18464878
You are a despicable liar or you go to a complete shithole of a university. You can literally CtrlF "transcend" in any respectable companion book to Plato or neoplatonism and you will get many results.
That smug superiority of yours is truly pathetic.
If we are randomly throwing out credentials, I am doing my PhD at oxford btw.

>I am doing my PhD at oxford btw
doubt

>>18464936
>being this autistic
go out, talk to people, have sex

>>18464947
i go out all the time

>>18464952
Sure

>>18464955
What's your PhD research on? Who's your PhD advisor?

>>18464970
P. Milli, critique of new hume

>>18464973
What is new Hume?

>>18464975
google it

>>18464059
KEK

>>18464978
Sounds really boring and pointless arguing about trivial details of what Hume really believed about causal objectivity. I do not envy academics.

>>18465008
Sounds really boring and pointless to form strong opinions about things I learnt existed 20 seconds ago. I do not envy laymen.

>>18465024
It's not a strong opinion, trust me, it is just very obscure and does not really fit into the spirit of philosophy, which is meant to be more than analyzing the exact opinion of someone who lived almost 1000 years ago with questionable opinions to begin with.

>>18465037
One day you will grow up and look upon this overconfidence with extreme cringe.

>>18464933
>it exists in a half-assed A*glo translation therefore it totally existed in Greek philosophy bros!
the sheer audacity of A*glo posters combined with their ignorance is too much. please ban all A*glo-A*erican IPs

>>18465041
How am I overconfident? I'm merely stating that topic is incredibly obscure and irrelevant. Were you writing your own philosophical treatise hoping to expand phenomenology or the Hegelian system, then I would be genuinely interested. What you described sounds like boring gruntwork.

>>18465044
Translate the following sentence into Ionic greek:
>When Plotinus saw Anon's letter he covered his face with shame
If you can't, please stop responding to me, I will ignore what you say. And I will know if you google translate as well, my greek is poor but still good enough to verify.

>>18465046
Anon, it is not obscure, nor is it irrelevant. Furthermore, you are not qualified to make that statement even if it was.
Relevancy might be hard to argue with, but obscure? Hume is probably top 5 most important philosopher in western academia and the new hume debate is the most important thing to happen to it in the last century. Please, for the love of god, stop believing yourself superior to muh academiplebs. It is truly embarassing.

>>18465070
>Anon, it is not obscure, nor is it irrelevant.
Hume isn't obscure, the exact topic you are investigating is. It is simply not relevant to anyone seriously interested in philosophy. Hume was dealt with already by far superior philosophers.
>the new hume debate is the most important thing to happen
This is more of an indictment of modern philosophy than a statement of its importance. I will continue believing myself superior to your kind, thank you very much.

>>18463917
Platov

>>18465095
Sorry this level of delusion and lack of factual accuracy is not something I can argue with. You win, rejoice.

>>18465107
ok

>>18463917
something very gay

>>18463917
Bro, the Republic is already a synthesis of communism and fascism. So adding more Lenin to the equation will result in more communist positions.

>>18464059
Lmfao

>>18463917
Unironically Stalinism