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22266080 No.22266080 [Reply] [Original]

Why am I reading this again? How is this benefiting me?

>> No.22266084

>>22266080
Kill yourself

>> No.22266098

>>22266080
>he reads because others told him to
ngmi

>> No.22266099

>>22266080
anon is that you again. are you still struggling with this? you literally have to read it, it's, like, thee major text of western philosophy. fr tho

>> No.22266111

>>22266080
if you don't finish this book within the next 3 months I'm gonna find and rape your entire family

>> No.22266132

Erkennen Sie sich selbst

>> No.22266174

Seriously I read Descartes, Spinoza, Locke, Leibniz, Berkeley, and Hume in preparation for this; is this just intellectual masturbation? What will I gain from reading this? Bragging rights? Wtf?

>> No.22266188

>>22266174
>What will I gain from reading this?
self-knowledge

>> No.22266210

>>22266080
>How is this benefiting me?
>A youth who had begun to read geometry with Euclid, when he had learnt the first proposition, inquired, "What do I get by learning these things?" So Euclid called a slave and said "Give him threepence, since he must make a gain out of what he learns."

>> No.22266365

>>22266174
The answer would be self-evident if you had read Plato

>> No.22266377

>>22266174
Reading those authors should be worthy of your time enough by itself, even if you do not end up reading Kant.
>>22266080
Even if you do not care about Kant, it will teach you how to read difficult texts, and it will make it easier for you to read simpler texts. This is the most cynical answer I can think of.

>> No.22266546

>>22266365
So I must read the 2000 page complete works of Plato, 1000 pages of secondary sources, and watch several lecture series to understand this?

>> No.22266593

>>22266174
Nothing, if you do it for something else.
Everything, if you do it for it self.

Philsophy is special click that spends trough history and is constructed with people that have been bored of every day life and have same goal: Nature of reallity, the thing behinde everything.

>> No.22266594

>>22266546
Most of the dialogues are around 50 pages.

>> No.22266604
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22266604

reject conditions of possible experience
embrace conditions of real experience

>> No.22266610

>>22266210
is that supposed to be clever? he is just avoiding the real meaning of the question