I fucking love this Socrates shit bro
Like, modern people just don't compare at all.
>>25008720There’s an italian movie about Socrates that is pretty great.
>>25008720True. What’s your favourite part?I really liked Euthyphro
>>25008826I definitely don't get to have the kinds of conversations I actually want to have with people, so I feel this way unironically.
>>25009460I just kind of act like I'm retarded, stoned,and deaf when I'm around people and shockingly I've never found a bottom for acceptability. I've said and done a lot that I feel like anyone with half a brain would question and I just get blown away that I'm accepted and actually praised
>>25009479Perhaps the people you have encountered have also not shown themselves to be worthy so intuitively you already realize you don't have to put the effort into it, and instead might as well have fun with the given moment.
>>25008720the socratic point in life is great where you'd rather take poison and die than to live around portugueses, truly is a tale about latin america for the non colored.
>>25008720Certainly better
>>25009915/lit/ can't refute this, they have learned to deflect the obvious from their consciousness while they do philosophy. a lot of anons therefore resort to eastern tradition, even if they're doing a poor job at it and only they post. there are no enlightened anons on /lit/.
>>25009915>>25010002The results are in! Stoicism is the objectively correct philosophy o algo.
>>25009915Well there is nothing else though
>>25010002>/lit/ can't refute thisThis seems like a petulant thing to say about the board being tired of responding to your spam and not wanting to do it on x or y particular instance.
>>25010002Only the degenerate modernites and Ockhamites. But patrician /lit/ is a neoplatonist, scholastic, and patristic board now.>>25010011Correction, it's Averoism ;-)
>>25009915Almost all on that list are French or German.Give me other examples before I start building a theory based on their countries.
Modern philosophy kind of just feels like fashion. I feel like so many of these guys wanted to be photographed as philosophers for sex and money. I mean a lot of these "philosophers" have model level head shots. Its just absurd to me. Infamous in camus where he poses like a noire detective. What are we doing here and why do we still encourage and engage with it
>>25010019>ScholasticismRefuted by René Guénon(PBUH) and Shankara(PBUH)
>>25010026Stirner was just a chill guy
>>25010035>nihilistHmm
>>25010028So what’s the cutoff point? Who was the last great philosopher?
>>25010042low quality bait
>>25010100There is no time cutoff for vain psueds. Now, if only there were a philosopher who did not pursue philosophy for the sake of appearances. One who did not commission busts or paintings or photographs of his likeness. Hmm...
>>25010105So, seems like something is inherently wrong with Germans and French. Perhaps they gained access to too much content pertaining to the mind and intellect that they were not able to handle properly.Never learning their lessons. Too much, too quickly, too soon...
Lately I've come to think maybe the Sophists were in the rightand that Socrates was corrupting the youth, and it was correct to get him gone
>>25010130You wouldn't know anything. You likely are a gringo.
>>25010012There is, anon. But it’s not what you want it to be,
>>25010329Never do this again.
>>25008720It's very comfy.
>>25010366Same to you, guys. This was never for you.Never impose yourselves where you don't belong. Never steal what is not yours. And don't change the rules of that which you don't understand inherently and set that upon the world.
>>25010343Dude can you stop being vague i wasn't being facetious
>>25010409>gringo means non-hispanic white?I take it back og I thought it was the opposite. And I do agree.t. nonwestoid
>>25010465I never claimed you were. The problem for many is not that they don’t know the truth, but that they hate the truth. The truth is often repulsive to those who do not yet have Life in them.
>>25008720so what are the current sock rates?
>>25010107I think /lit/ pseuds like you hate modern philosophers because you simply don’t understand their works.I don’t think anyone here can come up with proper criticisms (or have even read) Rawls’ Theory of Justice
>>25009479Stop hiding your power levels. It's time.
>>25010019Never thought i would agree with a scholastic, but here we are. :)
>>25008720>>25008720He was very foundational and his advice was good but if we were to compare pure based life wisdom epictetus wins
>>25010026>2 Germans>1 Englishman>1 Jew>4 French>Almost all of them are French or GermanLearn to count, lolcow-kun.
The fuck were they supposed to do when he is educating/indoctrinating the youth into his politics, that are at odds with their own
>>25008720I did not know they had /lit/ in the 16th and 17th centuries.
>>25011088Just chill frfr
>>25010083
>>25009460Socrates felt similarly his whole life. He talked to sophists because he genuinely thought they were wise and knew what virtue, piety, goodness, etc. were and was disillusioned when he found they did not.
>>25011076do you know what "almost" means you dumb chimp
>>25009915>Meanwhile Socrates had friends, admires, a wife, children, fought in war, partook in politics and hung out with historically important peopleHe really was a gigachad huh?
>>25009915It's not exactly hard to tell a story that frames Socrates death with similar negativity
>>25010901Too high right now, but Amazon will probably have another sale on socks for Memorial Day.
>>25009460I will feel eternally bless for having one irl friend I actually can have such conversations with. I cant imagine what its like without someone like that, and no idea where one meets someone capable of meaningful deeper discussions. On paper I would assume you could meet people like that while getting a philosophy degree, but I feel in practice it be end like Socrates meeting the sophists like >>25011210 mentioned
Poor Sophists, catching waaay too much flak
I knew someone that studied philosophy at Cambridge, quite possibly the smartest person I know IRL. He got fed up of it though and now works in consulting lmao
>>25011076>>1 JewA German Jew
>>25011407Funny I am in consulting (engineering) and keep musing about going into philosophy instead. 100% a stupid idea, but still the temptations lingers..
No one would know that I am participating in this thread despite the fact that I am not a well read person.
>>25011426There's just like zero real job opportunities as a philosopher, except feeding back into the scheme and becoming a philosophy teacher, producing more philosophers that will be unable to find job that utilizes their degree Maybe if you're sitting on a pile of inheritance money, or already made it It's scary how much the limitations shaped the field
>>25011430But what does it mean to be a well-read person?Is it someone who has read all the books? It cannot be that, for there are too many books for one person to read in one lifetime. Can it be someone who has read even half the books? Surely not, for again the number of books is too large.Should it be someone who has read all the important books, or at least a majority of them? But if it is then we must find out which books are important. In order to know which books are important, is it not also necessary to know which books are unimportant? There must be someone who can make the determination after reading both the important books and the unimportant books.But a person cannot have read all of the books, or even half of the books, so their knowledge of both important books and unimportant books will most assuredly be lacking. If we live in a world in which there is no person who can make the determination which books are important and which books are unimportant, then perhaps as well there is no person who can read all the important books, or at least a majority of them.In this situation, I am not sure that I can find a person who is indeed well-read, and thus your input is as valuable as anyone else's.
>>25011459Based and comfy post. I have to say, Socrates seems like one of the philosophers that be actually enjoyable to be around, in spite the memes about him being annoying to the point of being excecated for it, he seems like he was a genuinely friendly non-judgmental person. Most philosophers seem to be a bit too up their own ass or are at least highly autistic
>>25008720You'd probably like Plutarch's lives too then.
>>25011459lol, sounds like something Socrates would say. Hope you didn’t generate this with an LLM though
