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Is it useless to study the greeks and other ancient philosophers?

>> No.11249987

>>11249974
Why would you ask that?

>> No.11249990

About as useless as it is to study the ancient Greek mathematicians.

>> No.11249991

Study them through Schopenhauer.

>> No.11250010

No

>> No.11250017

>>11249974

Studying Philosophy is useless in general. Why not study something that matters? Something technical? Something culturally relevant? Something pleasurable?

>> No.11250316

>>11249974
If you are a dog then yes, you should not worry your mind with such things, go lick your master and he might pat you or give you a treat or something

>> No.11250381

>>11249974
>not spending ages reading through thousands of pages of guesses done by ancient people living in a time where human knowledge was 0.00000001% of what it is today

Do you even /lit/?

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>>11250017
>philosophy doesn't matter

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>>11250017
Oh yeah hedonism and materialism. Guaranteed paths to happiness.

>> No.11250472

>>11250407
philosophy matters less and less the more time goes on, since the greeks

>> No.11250499

>>11249974
Usefulness is for plebs. Do things for their own sake, because they themselves are worth doing. Don't always try to work towards some ulterior thing like a grubby petit bourgeois careerist.