/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.10956903]

How do you handle telling people that you dismiss large amounts of the canon?

I have not read any Marx, Hegel, and many others. I haven't read many famous books and find many of them boring.

I completely dismiss these figures. If their philosophy is purely theoretical then I don't care. But if it has ANY predictive value with regard to the real world, then I haven't seen it. To ask a Marxist to make falsifiable predictions would be humouring them.

My bullshit detector is sounding whenever I see most continental philosophy

[Anonymous No.10956909]

>you have to demonstrate other people what you've read
That's why you are a shitful pleb, not because you haven't read something.

[Anonymous No.10956911]

how is the idea of falsifiability predictive?

[Anonymous No.10956948]

>>10956909

fpbp

[Anonymous No.10956960]

>>10956903
you're a brainlet OP. R*ddit spacing, insecure, ismissive of great works you've never read. I hope you're aware enough to realize this (and hopefully change your ways) after people in this thread point it out.

[Anonymous No.10956962]

>>10956903

>My bullshit detector is sounding whenever I see most continental philosophy

And my retard sense is tingling when you unironically invoke Popperian falsificationism.

[Anonymous No.10956966]

>>10956903
99% of what marx said is falsifiable and falsified

[Anonymous No.10956974]

>>10956903
>>10956962
oooooooooooooooooooh battle of the reddit spacers

[Anonymous No.10956987]

>>10956903
come on OP, marxism is very practical, you can read it and become a revolutionary!
>>10956966
Give examples.

[Anonymous No.10956989]

>>10956974

>oooooooooooooooooooh

t. newfag from 2014 or later.

[Anonymous No.10957000]

>>10956989
reddit spacing