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Why aren't there any philosophers of the caliber of the past nowadays?

>> No.16070500

>>16070495
um, horia belcea exists?

>> No.16070508

>>16070495
umm... Jordan Peterson???? Hello?

>> No.16070570

Latour? DeLanda? Harman?

>> No.16070577

4chan will never be in the know of current art. Once it has reached normie status 4chan will pick it up after a few years

>> No.16070583

>>16070495
W. V. O. Quine

>> No.16070612

>>16070583
Quine is the only other philosopher that approaches the truth like OP pic

>> No.16070633

>>16070612
Yeah but he ded

>> No.16070640

>>16070495
Nietzsche wasn't even a philosopher, moron.

>> No.16070642

>>16070495
don't people love Zizek?

>> No.16070659

Because all the shit from the past gets filtered out
Quite often philosophers that were popular in their time get forgotten because their ideas were in fact worthless like Sartre and sometimes, it takes thousands of years for them to get recognised

>> No.16070668

>>16070583
>DUDE, SENTENCES LMAO
What a great philosopher

>> No.16070700

They are castrated by bureaucrats. They are also nerds.

>> No.16070730

>>16070570
DeLanda doesn't understand Deleuze or computer science. His book on Cellular Automata is just is laughable as Wolfram's

>> No.16070735

>>16070495
>Why aren't there any philosophers of the caliber of the past nowadays?
Maybe you just dont know about them. Hell, Nietzsche was unkown in his lifetime, his contemporaries could have asked the same question

>> No.16070774

>>16070495
Average IQ is lower
School system was dumbed down for the masses
Geniuses are always men and modern society treats them like shit
Germany got wrecked twice
Too many distractions, lots of smart guys are addicted to anime and videogames

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>>16070495
Icycalm will end philosophy

>> No.16071206

>>16070495
>Neche
>Philosopher
Nop

>> No.16071237
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>>16070495
List ten contemporary philosophers OP. I suspect that you simply haven't read any contemporary philosophy.

>> No.16071243

>>16070495
Kevin Solway has a few good reasons:

>Our modern world is largely feminized. Educational institutions are 100% feminized. These days there are hardly any male teachers in primary school, and relatively few in secondary school. The current educational environment is poisonous to the male spirit. Many children in the West are reared only by their mothers, without a father. In our age it is not politically correct to criticize women at all, and there are huge punishments for doing so. All this has a big influence on how the younger generation think.

>Also, the younger generation do not read the great works of literature of the past, such as Weininger, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Schopenhauer, etc. They are too busy working, playing computer games, or shopping.

Even so, it seems like every age would probably have at least one great philosopher - even if unrecognized at the time - with Solway most likely being the sage of our current age.

>> No.16071417

>>16070642
he's more of a grifter than a philosopher (like Lacan funnily enough)

>> No.16071456

>>16070495
Because Philosophy was left behind with the rise of modern Science.

>> No.16071507

>>16071456
why?

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>>16071199
holy....

>> No.16071601

>>16071507
Technological Advancements and Overall Scientific Discoveries have taken over the world so rapidly that no modern philosopher can phantom to write any new revolutionary systems without accounting for many cemented scientific facts. They are doomed to be discredited.
Modern philosophers are therefore none other than scientists. I can no longer respect a so called "philosopher" that has no grasp in mathematics and physics among other relevant scientific fields.

Science also suffers from this to a lesser extend. It is highly unlikely that we will ever see another scientist rise to fame like Einstein did simply because there are so many people working on very specific niche fields, making their discoveries very small in the large scope of things.

The problem is that no man can be proficient in every field. This was different in the old days, where many philosophers were also mathematicians and scientists to the best of their abilities.

>> No.16071646

>>16070495
why all the Nietzsche dick sitting?
90% of his writing is animus and angst and emotional outbursts/sperging.

pure cringy teenager fuel.

>> No.16071683

>>16071646
yeah it's great isn't it

>> No.16071693

>>16071646
dumb stoic pussy

>> No.16071698

>>16071683
>>16071693
yeah makes sense you would be his target audience.
>'tips

>> No.16071738

>>16070495
Alasdair MacIntyre
Charles Taylor

>> No.16071891

>>16071698
true thanks man, i do love his work.

>> No.16072022

>>16070570
Also
Nick Land
Mencius Moldbug
Eliezer Yudkowsky

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>>16071525
Holy based.

>> No.16072037,1 [INTERNAL] 

FYI - Horia Belcea ... The Synthesis of the Objective and Subjective, is an alias of (alias)MNMDR and the "author" of Behead All Satans. Keep from entertaining his manipulation of you.

>> No.16072065

>>16071199
The only correct answer itt

>> No.16072081

>>16071525
Devilishly based

>> No.16072389

>>16070640
What

>> No.16072403

>>16070735
True, I am in fact not really informed about current philosophy, but I still asked to stimulate a discussion

>> No.16072412

>>16071891
It's the equivalent of finding enjoyment in drinking booze at a bar alone and wallowing in self pity.
There's higher callings.

>> No.16072497

>>16071646
Tell me about his political project, anon. Let's see how much you understood from your readings.

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16072622

Kaczynski is the most important philosopher of the century

>> No.16072674

>>16072497
Find a material God.

>> No.16072687

>>16072674
He would've nuked the whole planet to produce One.

>> No.16072702

>>16072687
In other words, he felt the only way to have God come out of hiding was the coax him out with an existential threat to all existential threats; the Last Man scenario.

This can be exemplified in the follow video that even children could understand:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-rl0tfQO9E

>> No.16072707

>>16072702
Though Nietzsche himself lacked the will (to power) and the balls to do such things, he dreamed of such scenario occuring. Hence why he is more of a prophet than a philosopher.

>> No.16072712

>>16072674
>political project
>God

>> No.16072718

>>16072707
He couldn't play the roll of the ultimate villain. But hoped such a good man would exist to dawn that mask in order remind God who He really Is.

A Being Becoming and a Becoming Being.

>> No.16072729

>>16072712
Even Nietzsche was a believer; though the Truth saddened him and brought him ressentiment.

Hence all the petulant emotion eking through his work. Like tears on canvas.

>> No.16072741

>>16072729
Why are you talking about shit that has nothing to do with his politics?

>> No.16072750

>>16072741
Do you think I care about petty politics?
He was a product of his time.

And so are you.

>> No.16072755

>>16072750
Okay, can you explain to me what Nietzsche meant by petty politics?

>> No.16072762

>>16072750
He cared little for the order of his time as he thought it to be illusory and non-teleological. He want systems of governance and social order that would inevitably produce his material God; his ubermench. Regardless of how much suffering it would cause.

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>>16072622
dubs of truth

>> No.16072767

>>16072389
professional philologist and self-diagnosed psychologist

>> No.16072774

>>16072762
He was correct in assuming that suffering is the crucible for godhood. But ethically wrong in using other's suffering to achieve such selfish aim for the salvation of his own dream.

Maybe his God will forgive him for that.

>> No.16072788

and I'll tell you a little secret anon.
I never fucken read Nietzsche. I came up with this all on my own...

>> No.16072878

>>16070730
What's a good book on cellular automata then?

>> No.16072889

>>16071243
>Solway most likely being the sage of our current age.
t. Kevin Solway

>> No.16072906

I feel like some fields of philosophy are just completely exhausted. Ethics is one of them. There really isn't much between deontology, consequentialism and maybe virtue ethics (a stretch to pretend it even belongs in ethics since it's not action focused). Then there are those that tried to do away with morality all together or at least to remove the motivational forces that underpin all morality, ie Stirner and Nietzsche.
What else is there to say really? I can hardly imagine anything.

The best you can get nowadays are faggot Anglos who overdosed on the utilitarianism pill and think it's your moral duty to live like a poorfag while giving all your money and material goods to niggers in Africa.
Kind of the same way metaphysics as a field is dead, except it died even earlier than ethics because the ideas where exhausted much faster.

>> No.16072913

>>16070495
>Why aren't there any philosophers of the caliber of the past nowadays?
Affirmative action hiring and quotas have reduced the collective intelligence if academia drastically.

>> No.16073014

>>16072622
>>16070495
>>16070642
Check out Chad A Haag. His stuff on ecology and peak oil is fascinating

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16073126

Anyone making significant progress in the newish field of memetics. Susan Blackmore's/Daniel Dennett's idea of the Selfplex, if true, should be regarded as one of the biggest ideas in the history of philosophy.

https://www.susanblackmore.uk/conferences/dismantling-the-selfplex-meme-machines-and-the-nature-of-consciousness/
Ignore the rainbow hair, if you can.

>> No.16073952

plantinga