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Anonymous Thu Feb 28 10:38:10 2019 No.12678452 [Reply] [Original]

*waters down academic philosophy into self help*

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 28 10:57:30 2019 No.12678531 he's actually a pretty good writer, his book on architecture was nice. just a sensitive bald guy who parlayed his skills into a teeny empire. i'd probably do the same thing

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 28 11:42:23 2019 No.12678758 >>12678452 >Alain de Botton's Swiss-born mother was Ashkenazi, and his father was from a Sephardic Jewish family from the town of Boton in Castile and León.

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 28 11:47:02 2019 No.12678787 >>12678758 I never would have guessed!

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 28 11:48:22 2019 No.12678795 >>12678452 Could be worse, he could be like Jordan Peterstein and be a complete hack

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 28 11:50:31 2019 No.12678808 >>12678452 At least he doesn't get 70k per month doing that...

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 28 11:50:49 2019 No.12678810 >>12678452 Is it not the point of philosophy to improve yourself and your surroundings? No philosophy espouses destruction and vice, so it is self-help, or at least its byproducts can lead towards it.

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 28 11:51:55 2019 No.12678814 >>12678795 Peterson is not a philosopher, he's a psychologist.

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 28 11:52:58 2019 No.12678818 >>12678810 >Is it not the point of philosophy to improve yourself and your surroundings? Whatever you say, Marx

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 28 12:04:54 2019 No.12678872 >>12678814 Tell that to reddit, I’ve seen plenty of people claim that his basic bitch self help should be classified as philosophy.

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 28 12:06:07 2019 No.12678876 >>12678872 Not to mention he claims to understand philosophy but doesn't understand the basic writings of Nietzsche, Foucault and Derrida.

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 28 12:10:37 2019 No.12678896 >>12678795 >>12678808 >>12678872 >>12678876 chapo fags fuck off

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 28 12:15:55 2019 No.12678920 >>12678896 seething and copepilled

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 28 12:17:40 2019 No.12678934 >>12678896 wash your penis bucko

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 28 12:23:14 2019 No.12678967 Pseuds are a criminally untapped market. Someone post the Philosopher's jumper image. I'm going to start fucking selling those again as well as toe socks with uplifting Proust quotes on them and there's nothing you can do about it.

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 28 12:25:31 2019 No.12678978 File: 2.56 MB, 480x480, 1542404722191.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12678967 >criminally untapped market. If anything it is reaching over-saturation!

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 28 12:25:53 2019 No.12678979 File: 127 KB, 1310x779, 1466127322023.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12678967

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 28 12:46:03 2019 No.12679098 >>12678452 he looks female he looks on drugs

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 28 12:54:48 2019 No.12679154 >>12678979 i'd buy if they were 18 bucks instead of 182