/lit/ - Literature

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Why do people like Peterson think they have anything valuable to say about philosophy without having read the people they criticize, yet if it was some STEM meme field of mathematics you wouldn't find this many pseuds trying to argue over there? does continental philosophy really appear to be this accessible that reading a Wikipedia page gives you enough knowledge to engage with academics?

>"If you've never read Hegelian philosophy, don't worry about it, it's incredibly difficult to read but the basic idea of Hegelian philosophy is that god is present in history .. and that history is essentially a progression from synthesis .. um thesis, antithesis to synthesis, in other words, there is one position, the opposite position, they fight with each other, and the result is a synthesis of the best of both positions and therefore history is constantly moving in a progressive direction, that is Hegelianism in two sentences right there" -Ben Shapiro explaining Hegel