/lit/ - Literature

Why isn't philosophy considered fiction?

There are no new philosophical questions to be raised.

All questions have already been asked hundreds of years before us, and have been answered in a variety of ways, too. Pick one that pertains to you the most.

The age of information has made philosophy obsolete - great thinkers redundant and even misguided, brushed aside because society is now governed by the rule of "question everything", question everything before you had a chance to understand it, even.

How should we live our lives now? There is no more room for discovery beyond science and technology. No more room for romanticism and the study of human thought or relation. I cannot think of a single living person, that isn't an intellectual laughing stock like Zizek or whoever else, that is actively engaged in the philosophical and the intellectual.

Why isn't this being discussed? Great literature is often times born out of philosophy, and if the latter is a dying field, then surely literature will gradually follow suit. Books will get shorter, the messages hamfisted and regurgitated, and varied intellectualism will be buried beneath the dominant trend of post-modern intellectualism, where every subject is offensive, discussion is forbidden, and feelings are kings. Everything is a lie until proven otherwise.

Concepts like "Duty" or "Honor" are laughworthy, if one feels content happiness, he is outside of critique. Even if that often translates to vile excess or selfishness. As long as one doesn't directly harm others, he is free to do as he pleases, and any criticism of that person is unjust and uncalled for. "Why do you care?" "What's it to you?"

This is no room for greatness or ground breaking thought.

Hey /lit/.
How's your philosophy treating you?
Too bad you're falling for that millennia old meme.

You're too clueless to know about Non-Philosophy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-philosophy

Philosophy = outdated

"Laruelle's non-philosophy, he claims, should be considered to philosophy what non-Euclidean geometry is to the work of Euclid."

Philosophy= Newtonian physics
Non-Philosophy = Relativity & QM

>s-shut up, I've read countless book of philosophy, y-you can't say it was all for nothing ;((
>h-he's probably some crackpot

Nope, even modern philosophers can see his genius:
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Until a decade ago, he has been described by Scottish philosopher Ray Brassier as "the most important unknown philosopher working in Europe today"[4] and was described by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari as "engaged in one of the most interesting undertakings of contemporary philosophy."
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Laruelle out-Wittgenstein'd Wittgenstein.

Why does this board still take philosophy seriously?

>started my first year at uni last week
>doing engineering
>have to take stupid electives including philisophy and political science (I just picked whatever shit was open, it was all retarded courses)
>constantly talking about concepts such as why we exist and what is the right way to live
>all of this shit has been answered through sciences such as neurology and biology yet we're still wasting our fucking time reading books from ancient greece like the republic that were written on personal opinion and not based on actual fact
Seriously, what's the fucking point of philosophy and everything related to it? Literally everything is being answered by science and this continues. Philosophy isn't useful and it isn't applicable anywhere ever since we started basing the truth off facts rather than whatever Aristotle wrote millenniums ago.

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"U cannot know muffin" epistemology and baseless metaphysical drivel are the only things left to philosophy. Everything else that used to be philosophy in the 18th century has been formalized by science and math.