relaxing river meadow edition>What is /phil/ Philosophy General?A general for readers, students, and armchair thinkers interested in philosophy, whether it be Western, Eastern, analytic, continental, ancient, contemporary. We discuss primary texts, secondary literature, online lectures, podcasts.>Why read philosophy?Politics, science, psychology, etc. all began with or were inspired by someone who thought philosophically. Basically, if you are interested in just about anything, philosophy will help you better understand that subject. Because it is at the foundation of every conceptual institution made or discovered by humans, it is in the underbelly of human experience, and so it is worth taking seriously.>Why study philosophy formally?Surprisingly versatile and undervalued. Phil majors consistently score among the highest on the LSAT, GRE, and GMAT. Strong pipeline into law, policy, ethics consulting, AI alignment, and academia.Previous thread >>25285042
>>25317851Nihilism is gay and fake
Socrates is annoying to me because he's so obviously doing mental gymnastics to justify what he thinks is "true and beautiful" rather than what is just true. To me this is, at the very least, hypocritical
>>25317851>Phil majors consistently score among the highest on the LSAT, GRE, and GMAT.gay as hell framework value conformity
>>25317856That's usually what people are looking for when they make criticism of philosophy as a major. it is one of many ways to justify its value, but it is the easiest to understand for normies who probably dont even know what philosophy is.
>>25317852Why is materialism nihilistic?
1s in the chat if I should keep making and maintaining these threads
>>25317859Normies should be filtered. Normies normiefying philosophy is the worst that has happened to it. It should go back to being a less popular endeavour only traveled by the most passionate for it.
>tfw you want to read an untranslated text
>>25318376you sound like youre 14
>>25318376>It should go back to being a less popular endeavour only traveled by the most passionate for it.I don't know that it was ever that, or even that its not currently that. What normies engage with currently is not "philosophy" it's just comfort quotes.
>>25317851Asked a thread or two ago about pragmatics in the philosophy of language. Noble pursuit or waste of time?Also that frogposter with the crass ethical dilemma made me think about act utilitarianism. I consider myself closer to deontology and virtue ethics, but is there any books that argue for it in a political philosophy context? Primary sources are fine.Also interested in the philosophy of history, particularly counterfactuals. Any interested anons throw book or articles at me.
>/phil/ - Philosophy General #6
maybe one day this general will have activity again, in the meantime peace out and love philosophy
>>25318487no u
>>25319635Activity here tends to fluctuate. Every once in a while someone will chime in with something interesting.
>>25319635the philo in philosophy already means love. philosopher: lover of wisdom.
>>25319685love the love of wisdom
>>25319305thanks for the bump, chump
>>25319676I asked a few questions and got nothing.
>>25320198I would expect that to be the case at first, but perhaps people will gradually begin to haunt and reply to stuff. Probably too very few people on this website are actually knowledgeable/willing to share their knowledge
>>25320316Yeah I mean i just wanted to know about pragmatics at most.
