What is your favorite philosopy, Yas Forums?
Let's start with a great one, which we should all become familiar with: en.wikipedia.org
What is your favorite philosopy, Yas Forums?
Camden Allen
Jonathan Kelly
transcendentalism
Ayden Smith
This is one of my favorite philosophers
en.wikipedia.org
Angel Morgan
Student of: en.wikipedia.org
Nicholas Wright
Neo-Platonist esoteric traditionalism refined by the works of Kant
Easton Gomez
his concept of language games is one of the most important thing you could spend your time thinking about wrt designing your life and how you will relate to everything. i constantly go back to it, it’s on the same level of importance as ‘as above, so below.’
however, wittgenstein is disappointing to me for the fact that he vehemently believed that existence precedes essence. it’s such an unhelpful, counterproductive thing to believe I can’t believe an accomplished white man like Ludwig would let himself adamantly defend it
Liam Lewis
I'm still centuries behind as I'm still reading Greeks and romans. How the hell do I reach there? Just reading their wikepedia pages made me feel more of a brainlet than I already am
Leo Collins
Stoicism is also hyper-accessible meme pleb philosophy, which isn't even taken as a philosophy as such. What people refer to when they speak of Stoicism is an ethical stance severed from its genuine metaphysical and ontological framework, and watered down into some 21st century self-help guru's platitudal, empty ramblings, the reading of which people substitute for genuine self-betterment.
Even more repugnant is that nobody affiliated with Stoicism in a modern sense actually takes the natural ethical ideals of Stoicism as their own ideals. They instead envisage some 'practical stoicism' which can help them to achieve their own pathetic ends, at which point the doctrine doesn't even bear any remote relation to actual Stoicism any more than it does to am equal bastardization of the writings of literally any other ethical philosopher or religion ever.
And in its essence, metaphysical and ontological, Stoicism is a meme. Pure and simple.
Brody Jones
Nice try kiddo.
Russell was a gigacuck btw
Alexander Nelson
based
Julian Gutierrez
I haven't read Derrida
Give me a quick rundown on his retorts to Russell et al
Asher Sanchez
Words don't stand for things they stand in for them
Jeremiah Fisher
harry potter
Noah Wright
Stoicism is a mistake. Read Aristotle's Ethics.
Dominic Evans
Unironically this guy. Diogenes was truly the first autist chad, and showed the world how much of a bitch Plato was.
Dylan Rogers
Again, a mistake.
Aristotle specifically refutes Diogenes' view in the Ethics. Stoics/Cynics realize that humans are applying their emotions/desires in a wrong way, but they make the wrong conclusion that therefore it is better not to feel/desire at all. Aristotle refutes this and says there is actually a correct way to act on desires and emotions: by expressing them through the golden mean, through virtue.
Brandon Robinson
Aristotle was a bitch and it shows. Also, Diogenes being my favorite philosopher doesn't mean I agree with what he said. Enjoyment and agreement are two very different things.
Austin Allen
Also, Diogenes never said that humans should not feel/desire anything. Him jerking it in public shows pretty clearly that he still fulfilled his desires.
Stoics also never said that you should never feel/desire. Most agreed that you can never actually overcome feelings and desires, but that you can control your reaction to those feelings and desires.
Noah Ward
Ah, the edgy autistic Yas Forumstard's 'philosopher' of choice
OMG HE'S LITERALLY ME
Camden Perry
I literally never said I subscribe to his ideas, and I never will.
Blake Gray
I just wanna coom
Elijah Williams
Aristotle taught Alexander the great who was a role model for every fucking conqueror that came after him throughout history.
Diogenes trolled some Athenian citizens. And yeah he wanked in public but he also spouted nonsense about not a single human being good enough. Pretty obvious who was the coping bitch.
Thomas Anderson
yeah and that's a mistake.
Those desires are there for a reason and should be channeled properly into achieving greatness. Not stifled.
Who did Diogenes ever teach that amounted to greatness? He contributed nothing to the world. And Aurelius was an emperor who failed to fulfill the one main duty an emperor should fulfill. Raising a good heir. He was the last, weak link in a line of 5 good emperors.
Hunter Sanders
You sound like a coping bitch my friend.
Aristotle is the most normie dormie shit
Jayden Clark
en.m.wikipedia.org
>so simple yet so poorly understood
>requires at least a modicum of self awareness
>potentially most life changing if properly internalised
Nathan Sanchez
Stoicism is the Reddit of philosophy
Jack Perry
>See japan
Bentley Powell
What is the Yas Forums?
Julian Taylor
did philosophy at varsity, read the classics almost all of Plato, Russel's epistemology, Derrida, Foucault etc but nothing explains the human condition like the bibel
Camden Martinez
Pre-Rome German barbarianism
Michael Green
> Blocks your path
> Allow me to introduce myself
Thomas Aquinas, the guy who combined the Hellenic and Roman philosophical traditions (Plato, Aristotle, as well as stoicism) with the living transcendental reality of Christ.
Lincoln Clark
What about Japan
Jacob Scott
You're never going to make it user.
Ryan Perez
Augustine got my back
Luis Walker
nice counter argument, stick to hipster bs philosophers then, I suppose it pleases you.
Jace James
>great one
>Stoicism
"Lol just accept your lot in life"... you must be euro because that is the most unamerican thing
Mason Sanders
Wow, i read your rage comment and then I instantly forgot it. Thanks for making such a needed post. Your opinion is discarded.
Jayden Martinez
How does he reconcile unconditional love with Hellenic traditions? Jesus is just another flavor of stoicism.
He preached sympathy in a time where we had deviated from that mean. But unconditional love is too far off the mark of the mean. Good that cannot defend itself from evil is not the greatest possible good. That's why not a single christian is able to practice what they actually preach.
Charles Roberts
Absolutely based
Kayden Martinez
I think you're too closely equating the Stoic and the Christian. It's much more apt to call (early) Christianity a post-Judaic transfiguration of Platonism
Samuel Scott
He preached a lot of abstinence in addition.
Anyway the key message of that philosophy is unconditional love, which is impractical if not impossible. Even as something to strive for it does not hold up, since a great good should be able to sustain itself.
Mason Johnson
It ultimately depends on what you mean by love. Its sole authoritative text being almost wholly allegorical, Christianity can never really be definitive on this.
It can range from a definitive emotion or sentiment (one of the many human emotions or sentiments), to a supra-emotional disposition or imperative that states that you ought to act so as to improve the being of all living things.
The former is impossible, but when it becomes contingent upon its satisfaction of the latter (which is still wholly Christian), the doctrine is no less unreachable than the ideals of any other ethical doctrine. (That is, entirely unreachable, because they're Ideal).
Logan Miller
Epicureanism
Justin Campbell
>Bust of Sergey Nazarov 120 A.D.
Amazing
Jayden Martinez
literally a salad of words
Brayden Kelly
You are the fag of Yas Forums
Wyatt Ross
>wittgenstein
>white
Luke Russell
Go back to >>/lit/ faggots
Carter Carter
Hardcore neo-biblical post modernist truth conspiracy.
Benjamin Sullivan
The natural intellect of this board is too low to talk about philosophy. Also, everyone is too uneducated.
Sage
Andrew Jackson
youtube.com
This is my philosophy
Andrew Ortiz
>intellect of this board is too low
>also a namefag
kek
Cooper Thompson
On a lighter note. A philosopher I deeply respect is Jiddu Krishnamurti
youtu.be
Following philosophies is for plebs though. Make your own.
Jackson Lee
Judaisim didn't exist back then
Jace Perry
Replying just to tell someone he has a name.
This proves it further.
Sage
Alexander Phillips
>Judaism didn't exist before Christianity
based retard
Chase Hill
>Following philosophies is for plebs though. Make your own.
based retard
Kayden Long
Combine the best of the West and the least of the East, roll your Own and life is fucking on.
Sage
Nathan Smith
You will always be grasping at straws.
Criticizing and opinionating.
Never seeing the sign that hangs on both sides.
Samuel Diaz
Isn't that what you are doing right now?
Sage
Isaiah Smith
Mine is seeking the one and only objective truth because true subjectivity is merely an illusion therefore trying to eliminate all bias that stems from the ego.
John Morales
Are you trying to eliminate your personality faggot?
Sage
Brandon Garcia
'Subjectivity is an illusion' is one of the biggest bugbears of the modern mind. Everything is an illusion unless correctly understood, the phenomenon of subjectivity is no different. It's just as real as the One, being a part thereof. It's a particular function, very real, of an essence, also very real.
Wyatt Ross
There is only nihilism.
Tyler Sanders
Shut the fuck up, doomer.