/lit/ - Literature

>>13557799
>when did you realise a love of wisdom is bullshit?

>>13536482
>women have sex and want to have sex with me and I have a problem with this
Stop with the traditional Christian bullshit, accept women are sexual creatures and enjoy yourself you absolute fucking moron

>>13535576
Become a centrist you autist. There is no truth in radical beliefs despite what people on 4chan will tell you.

>>13479698
Sartre kindly answered your question when he published Existence Preceeds Essence.

>>13474279
The duck question doesn't have an obvious answer. You mischaracterise my view entirely. My perspective is that when an issue becomes sufficiently abstract there often isn't a truth of the matter. It becomes absurd to debate whether a rubber duck is a duck because it depends entirely on how you want to conceptualise the issue. Then you have all these different camps arguing that their method of conceptualisation is superior which is essentially just intellectual posturing with very little content, with some philosophers proposing conceptual schemes so divorced from reality that they posit that nonexistent worlds literally exist. It's all well and good if you want to spend your life arguing over such things but to the average person what analytic philosophers have to say is of little to no consequence.

>>13451198
There is no freaking way these are true. I studied him at University, have watched numerous documentaries on his life, read his work and read about him endlessly but I've never heard this stuff. I must attain a copy of this book. Jesus Christ.

>>13449091
You have to do that yourself. Then become that author to help others like you.

>>13436021
>singlehandedly disproves dualism by mentioning mitochondria
Please, tell us more about your towering intellect derived from pop-science literature.

>>13427225
I got my sister to read a paper I wrote for honors philosophy. She couldn't comprehend the jargon and didn't understand it at all. I got an A. This is what you have to look forward to.

>>13426259
Could you invent an automated bobbin winder unaided by books and the Internet? How about a machine for testing the tensile strength of wire before such information existed?

>>13425687
I don't get why the left is attacked so much with this anti postmodern neo-marxist dribble. I'm a left of center philosopher and I value all of those things I'm supposedly meant to be dismissing as does literally every left academic philosopher I've ever spoken to and read.

>>13425466
>can't comprehend contemporary philosophy
>gets mad

>>13424333
Because assuming what you have to say on the subject is of any interest whatsoever, which, despite your bad attitude, I believe it is, you have to concede that philosophy has value.

Philosophers unambiguously discuss these topics. We are doing philosophy right now whether you like it or not, just some of us less well than others.

>>13414666

>>13414435
Mirth