/lit/ - Literature

Was he the greatest genius of modern times?

>>13075074
That's a pretty unflattering drawing of spinoza

Was the 17th century the best century for philosophy?

>My training as a scholar, and so to speak my spiritual home base, is in the 17th century, which I see as a brief period of tremendous openness, of liberality and of true love of knowledge, inserted in the middle of what has generally been, philosophically speaking, a long, dark history of tedious scholasticism, provincialism, and submission to authority. Not coincidentally, this is also the period in which most of the philosophical action was going on outside of universities.

Descartes didn't distinguish between humans and
machines or organic world and inorganic world.
When his daughter died at the age of five,
he found a doll that looked just like her.
He named her Francine and doted on her.

>>7839949
>That make you enable to feel conscious

ahh shit, here we go

Be honest, do meditation 3-6 hold any weight?

>>6754337

>Holocaust memoirs
>Author was born in the 60s

The Bad Guy's Son

Would someone be so kind as to aid me with my philosophy paper? I'm a bit lost and would like some guidance.
Will post topics in following posts if there are people willing.