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>>10681918
>>10682078
It's Christopher Hitchens doing his best Camus impression.

>>5319513
If people weren't interesting in Philosophy

Philosophy wouldn't exist

>Christopher Hitchens

*tips fedora*

How about you try a book that's actually worth reading. Being British is not really a requirement. It's relatable to any westerner.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Abolition-Britain-Peter-Hitchens/dp/0704381400
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tyixUGgVQE

>>4778864
"Let’s say that the consensus is that our species, being the higher primates, Homo Sapiens, has been on the planet for at least 100,000 years, maybe more. Francis Collins says maybe 100,000. Richard Dawkins thinks maybe a quarter-of-a-million. I’ll take 100,000. In order to be a Christian, you have to believe that for 98,000 years, our species suffered and died, most of its children dying in childbirth, most other people having a life expectancy of about 25 years, dying of their teeth. Famine, struggle, bitterness, war, suffering, misery, all of that for 98,000 years. Heaven watches this with complete indifference. And then 2000 years ago, thinks “That’s enough of that. It’s time to intervene,” and the best way to do this would be by condemning someone to a human sacrifice somewhere in the less literate parts of the Middle East. Don’t let us appeal to the Chinese, for example, where people can read and study evidence and have a civilization. Let’s go to the desert and have another revelation there. This is nonsense. It can’t be believed by a thinking person."

Christopher Hitchens remains the undefeated champion when it comes to these kind of debates. And he's been dead for over a year now.

Has he ever explained his journey from marxist/trotskyist to secular neocon?

Is Hitchens to be taken as a seriously as a thinker, and, dare I say it, philosopher?

I haven't studied much philosophy in school, but I read a lot of it on my own, and comparing some of what I've read (Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Hegel, Kant) most of Hitchens thoughts/ arguments just seem really amateur to me. Those that know a lot about the principles of philosophy/logic/etc. is this a legitimate opinion? Or am I missing something wonderful about him?

New essay by Hitchens on Vanity Fair.

http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2011/06/christopher-hitchens-unspoken-truths-201106?curre
ntPage=1

Surprisingly better that Tao Lin.

Can we start a Christopher Hitchens thread please?

I have been trying to spread out more in science, history, political science and philosophy a bit, but for the most part, I have no idea where I want to go. Anybody have any really good reads?

Pic Semi-Related: My favorite author Christopher Hitchens

>>1111492
i would recommend the guru granth sahib op