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Read Whitehead. It's amazing how everyday I am reminded that everyone would be less retarded if they just read Whitehead.

Read Alfred North Whitehead

>"The point is, that speculative extension beyond direct observation spells some trust in metaphysics, however vaguely these metaphysical notions may be entertained in explicit thought. Our metaphysical knowledge is slight, superficial, incomplete. Thus errors creep in. But, such as it is, metaphysical understanding guides imagination and justifies purpose. Apart from metaphysical presupposition there can be no civilization."

>“Philosophy is not a mere collection of noble sentiments. A deluge of such sentiments does more harm than good. Philosophy is at once general and concrete, critical and appreciative of direct intuition. It is not—or, at least, should not be—a ferocious debate between irritable professors. It is a survey of possibilities and their comparison with actualities. In philosophy, the fact, the theory, the alternatives, and the ideal, are weighed together. Its gifts are insight and foresight, and a sense of the worth of life, in short, that sense of importance which nerves all civilized effort. Mankind can flourish in the lower stages of life with merely barbaric flashes of thought. But when civilization culminates, the absence of a coördinating philosophy of life, spread throughout the community, spells decadence, boredom, and the slackening of effort.”

>>14317617
>Kek
Hello retard
Your vision is simply narrow

>>14258137
Take the Speculative Philosophy pill

>>14250052
uh it's not the 18th century. leftists are open and fine with religion as long as you aren't a reactionary and fundamentalist. read up on theory and ecology.

>>14246770

Is Whitehead right here?

No. Read Whitehead.

>>14180951