>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.The server: https://discord.gg/uPvkn8Tcf6/phil/ guide: https://www.scribd.com/document/324425214/Lit-Philosophy-Project-1-2Previous thread: >>25496991
>>25510624We will not be contained by your containment thread
>>25510624Badiou I thought was interesting. Revolutionary theory with set theory which seems bizarre
>>25510624Waitaminute wtf where is Aquinas?
>>25510624>No Frege
>>25510624>no bataille
>>25510624>No Marx
>Philosophy General #11
>Here is a high-level summary of the 5-block curriculum:>1. Classical Foundations (Virtue & Realism)Texts: Thucydides (Peloponnesian War: "Melian Dialogue"), Aristotle (Nicomachean Ethics: Bks I, II, V).Core Idea: Examines pre-modern ethics and statecraft—where power functions without moral posturing, and virtue (arete) is a concrete, localized habit tied to duty and order.>2. The Universal Turn (Moral Law)Text: Immanuel Kant (Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals).Core Idea: Establishes Enlightenment universalism. Reason demands an absolute moral law, establishing intrinsic human Dignity (Würde) that can never be traded off as a mere "value" or price.>3. The Demolition (Moral Critique)Text: Friedrich Nietzsche (On the Genealogy of Morality).Core Idea: Deconstructs universal morality as secularized Christian "slave morality." Reclassifies objective moral truths as subjective projections of power (Will to Power) and introduces the critique of "values.">4. The Political Realist Application (Values & Warfare)Texts: Carl Schmitt (The Concept of the Political, The Tyranny of Values).Core Idea: Applies Nietzsche's critique to geopolitics. Shows how converting moral status into a hierarchy of "values" eliminates traditional restraints, turning rivals into existential "disvalues" to be annihilated under the banner of absolute good.>5. The Metaphysical Reaction (Sacred Order)Text: Julius Evola (Revolt Against the Modern World: Part 1).Core Idea: Rejects both modern egalitarianism and Nietzsche's anarchic individualism. Proposes a return to a transcendent, hierarchical Primordial Tradition based on sacral kingship and spiritual warrior castes.Got ths reading list from Gemini. Is it any good?
>>25512168looks okay if a bit chuddyanyways, I started Thomas Nagel's View From Nowhere and it seems like he's pushing past Wittgenstein's conception of language being "the limits of one's world" by positing that our minds and the minds of others could be extended towards an objective standpoint by simply looking towards the idea that the senses of some people and other conscious creatures can be approached by decentering the subjective viewpoint in which one perceives the world, in an "outside looking in" rather than "inside looking out" perspective. But he insists that this is only half the story, as a fully objective viewpoint misses the point of a "perspectiveless" view.
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>>25510624>The server: https://discord.gg/uPvkn8Tcf6Isn't that against the rule? You're just siphoning off the little users we've got. If not it should be. Fuck off back to discord and don't come back.
