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Discussion on readable philosophy Anonymous Sun Mar 12 15:11:48 2023 No.21774783 [Reply] [Original]

who's the most readable philosopher?

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 12 15:15:03 2023 No.21774794 >>21774783 Not this guy

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 12 15:15:55 2023 No.21774797 Nietzsche

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 12 15:18:13 2023 No.21774806 >>21774783 Kant

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 12 15:19:48 2023 No.21774809 >>21774783 you can't read?

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 12 15:24:05 2023 No.21774817 >>21774783 the ones who wrote down their thoughts

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 12 15:26:01 2023 No.21774820 >>21774783 Me :)

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 12 15:43:23 2023 No.21774888 >>21774783 Plato, Nietzsche, Descartes, Francis Bacon, Berkeley, Hume, Hobbes, Leibniz....

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 12 15:46:09 2023 No.21774902 >>21774888 also William James. Most anglos write clearly, Copenhauer only has a reputation for it because he was writing in the german tradition where clear writing was actually an original idea.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 12 15:56:46 2023 No.21774942 >>21774783 any that wrote in German

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 12 16:03:12 2023 No.21774972 >>21774888 From experience (of seeing people around me) half of these are still a bit tough for beginners to philosophical reading. I suspect some of the contemporary philosophers, particularly some of the applied ethicist are the most readable

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 12 16:18:22 2023 No.21775039 >>21774783 What do you mean by "readable"? Anything is readable

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 12 16:33:41 2023 No.21775097 >>21774809 >>21774817 >>21775039 wow you are so smart

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 12 16:35:50 2023 No.21775102 >>21775097 I'm not, but I'm not sure what you mean by "readable". You mean easy stuff?

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 12 16:36:50 2023 No.21775107 File: 65 KB, 710x296, definition.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>21775102 ESLs must die

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 12 16:39:16 2023 No.21775113 >>21775107 kek such a gay ass language

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 12 18:58:08 2023 No.21775685 >>21774783 Basically anyone but Kant

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 12 19:13:21 2023 No.21775757 Basically anyone from the Renaissance and the early modern period (best period of philosophy)

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 12 20:06:02 2023 No.21775952 American authors write the most clearly, they're like the direct opposite of the French, it's impossible to misunderstand them

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 12 20:17:17 2023 No.21776002 >>21774783 plato or aristotle really. maybe seneca/cicero since they are really good writers.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 12 20:18:28 2023 No.21776006 >>21775952 ? i read montaigne and he was as clear as a mountain stream(pun not intended). you mean the post modern commie ones like foucault? descartes wasn't too hard either

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 13 03:24:15 2023 No.21777747 >>21776006 >you mean the post modern commie ones like foucault? Yep. French prose went to total shit in the 20th century

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 13 03:31:20 2023 No.21777777 >>21774783 Most of the ancients are easy reads. >>21777747 Absolutely not, and the three or four memes that Americans have heard of are not representative. Foucault is also quite clear, he's just trash.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 13 03:32:24 2023 No.21777782 >>21777777 Witnessed + waste of digits

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 13 04:24:44 2023 No.21777899 >>21777777 >Absolutely not Every 20th century frenchman I've read just writes like shit Granted I think this is a product of modern universities more than a French specific problem

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 13 05:08:34 2023 No.21777981 >>21777777 >777777 holy shit

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 13 05:21:55 2023 No.21778010 File: 43 KB, 351x440, 5 star post.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>21777777 nice

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 13 06:07:05 2023 No.21778092 >>21777777 >frogs redeemed

Anonymous Mon Mar 13 06:12:41 2023 No.21778100

Schopenhauer deliberately wrote in an understandable prose cause he was butthurt at hegels obscurantism.
I think Nietzsche wrote in an easy to understand way, the one thing he kept from his schop studies.

The greeks usually give it to you straight as well.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 13 06:12:55 2023 No.21778101 >>21777777 >Ancients are easy reads >Foucault is shit Holy based and checked.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 13 06:17:52 2023 No.21778110 >>21774783 Heidegger :^)

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 13 06:25:52 2023 No.21778129 >>21777777 Holy

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