You guys like philosophy?

[SOSU]

57 minutes ago, Sunnyfruit said:

"Man is born good, society turns him evil"

What even is good and evil?

 

And so it begins xD

[Sunnyfruit]

6 minutes ago, SOSU said:

What even is good and evil?

 

And so it begins xD

 

Wealth or the lack thereof, of course >:)

[ReX]

3 hours ago, SOSU said:

What even is good and evil?

 "There is no good and evil; there is only power, and those too weak to seek it."

                                                                                                        TR/LV

[Redneckerz]

20 hours ago, Sunnyfruit said:

 

"Man is born good, society turns him evil" I would rather have this quote hammered in the head of children rather than the "Homo homini lupus" of our pseudo-cynical Hobbesianism.

Under that cloak, would you also be in favor of John Locke's theory of Tabula Rasa?

 

[Azuris]

On 3/4/2021 at 5:15 PM, SOSU said:

I sure do :D

I'm a fan of existentialists like Kirkegaard, Dostoevsky and Nietzsche but i read stuff from multiple lines of thought, don't agree with many like Marx or Ayn Rand but atleast from Rand we got some superheroes like The Question who is the inspiration for Watchmens Rorschach and i am not sure, never played it but i believe BioShock is inspired by Rand? The place the game takes place in i believe.

So which philosophers do you fellas like?

 

I was really philosophing around in my head at my Teenage Years.

I wanted to find a Way to be fair and honorful to everyone, even when interest of different Parties conflicted.

My Head was really spinning around, but i found my "Codex" .

 

Later i found out that it is a Mixture of Meditations of Marcus Aurelius and Warrior of Light from Paolo Coelho.

 

It would have saved me of spending Years of thinking Time reading those Books back than.

But well, i can say i've got the same Thoughs as Philosophs all by myself.

 

 

Edited March 6, 2021 by Azuris

[Gokuma]

No no NOOOOOO!   I hate all philosophy!... with a passion! 

[Sunnyfruit]

On 3/6/2021 at 12:01 PM, Redneckerz said:

Under that cloak, would you also be in favor of John Locke's theory of Tabula Rasa?

 

I wanted to answer to this since a week but work was overtaking my free time.

I don't believe in the tabula rasa and I don't think you can mold people into what you desire through education. I think the role of society is to assist the maturation of people, and that by either spoiling them or restraining them, you make them dysfonctional and therefore prone to "evil", just like a misused machine is likely to break and cause damage. Frustration breeds perversion, you could say. People yearn meaning more than pleasure. Maybe some people are born fucked up, but it's a bit of a freaky hypothesis.

And also I think life is more than a chemical phenomenon and that men are more than machines.

Edited March 10, 2021 by Sunnyfruit

[durian]

I've been teaching the Mediations this term - fun stuff.

[DooM Bear]

I’m a nihilist so therefore I believe studying philosophy is pointless XD

 

Jks. While most of my world views are very nihilistic I like to read all different view points in an attempt to understand where they are coming from :-)

 

 

[Gokuma]

Be excellent to each other.   And party on.

[feedernseeder]

what doth life

[aenimus]

the only crime is progenitive capsulization of the call to peace 'you guys like pilosophy', as i say to blazon

 

the land beyond my profile background is one of a world another, the stones melt by touch water and water placed like the moon, my writings the livejournal account komplication

Edited April 5, 2021 by aenimus

[Gokuma]

I think the Faith No More Institute of Theology founded by Mike Patton is a pretty cool place.

[Sena]

Between Diogenes, Cioran, and to a lesser extent Schopenhauer, the philosophers I like seem to be the ones that always nobody particularly liked when they were alive. 

[Arrowhead]

I like: Philippe Aries, Foucault, Susan Neiman, Chomsky, Hegel, Cioran, Rorty, Kong Fuzi, Russell, Hume, Plato, Diogenes the Cynic, and Voltaire.

Edited April 2, 2021 by Arrowhead12

[Eric Claus]

Philosophy can be interesting, even if you don't ascribe to a certain philosophy I think it can be beneficial to chew on things when you have time to kill.  One that also ventures a bit more in the political science realm but does have plenty of philosophical elements (seemingly nihilist before Nietzsche but I couldn't tell you to what extent).  While I don't generally agree with him the whole notion of a lot of aspects of our civilization and society being essentially illusions (or spooks of the mind) is an interesting thought.

[durian]

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Edited April 6, 2021 by durian

[Soundblock]

Love the subject but have only dabbled. Thinkers whose expressions enriched include Sokrates (found Plato to maybe overthink a bit), Sun Tzu (the generally applicable concepts, violent conflict or not), Descartes (but be kind to animals bro, wtf), Wittgenstein (even if seemingly largely systemized rehash), Jung (basically just the archetypes, never delved deep), Einstein (I don’t feign to understand his specifics but its clear his conclusions have had a rather definitive effect on human thinking & he’s got plenty good anecdotes besides), Ghandi, Chomsky, Borges & since we’re approaching the border to poetry... Dave Arneson & Leonard Cohen.

[Eric Claus]

1 hour ago, Soundblock said:

Love the subject but have only dabbled. Thinkers whose expressions enriched include Sokrates (found Plato to maybe overthink a bit), Sun Tzu (the generally applicable concepts, violent conflict or not), Descartes (but be kind to animals bro, wtf), Wittgenstein (even if seemingly largely systemized rehash), Jung (basically just the archetypes, never delved deep), Einstein (I don’t feign to understand his specifics but its clear his conclusions have had a rather definitive effect on human thinking & he’s got plenty good anecdotes besides), Ghandi, Chomsky, Borges & since we’re approaching the border to poetry... Dave Arneson & Leonard Cohen.

 

Honestly I can really only say I have dabbled to an extent as well mainly because I find it interesting at times and it broadens my thinking.  Funny you mention Sun Tzu I enjoyed his work and actually to go along with it Clauswitz had a very blunt take on warfare that I found fascinating, namely, it is an ultimately a political instrument to enforce your will upon another, or to prevent such from happening in return.  Sun Tzu seems to go with that as well.

Edited April 3, 2021 by Eric Claus

[smeghammer]

"Life.

Loathe it or ignore it, you can't like it."

 

 - Marvin the Paranoid Android.

 

(I think someone already said this, so apologies...)

"Be Excellent to each other. And...

PARTY ON DUDES!!"

 

 - Abraham Lincoln (allegedly)

 

I'm with Abe here. 

[MrFlibble]

On 4/3/2021 at 6:00 AM, durian said:

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[Cosmos Of Kings]

The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith was a fun read, although I only read it because of its relevance to my studies. In general, I've only been interested in philosophers' works who were positively significant to particular scientific disciplines (Physics, Math, Economics).

[Taw Tu'lki]

Reading Trotsky