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http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/04/10/book-review-after-virtue-or-somebody-here-is-really-confused-and-i-just-hope-its-not-me/

I like this article because it is what happens when an earnest person reads continental philosophy and says what he thinks. Even a non philosopher can tell the bullshit nature of a world famous philosopher. This is why the charlatans hide in their obscurantism.

If you really sincerely want to play theoretical games, fine, but as soon as the real world touches on the bullshit at all it falls like a house of cards made of water.

>> No.10639224

>>10639221
MacIntyre is an analytic philosopher

>> No.10639227

>>10639221
That guy was insincere as fuck throughout the review. He usually is. Scott Alexander is the type of writer that hedges a lot. If you liked his review, you're a dupe.

>> No.10639244

>>10639221
slatestarcodex is blogkino

any other blogs you guys recommend?

>> No.10639263

>>10639221
>slatestarcodex
Where effete programmers go to feel edgy. Its Rational Wiki and Less Wrong except for the James Damore crowd lmao

>> No.10639265

after "you're still crying wolf" i stopped trusting scott. his truth standards are absurd

>> No.10639267

>>10639221
>Ayn Rand
stopped reading

>> No.10639270 [DELETED] 

>>10639221
Here’s a thought: the value of philosophy is almost always mainly negative. As a heuristic, one should ignore whatever a philosopher advocates (because it’s bound to be wrong and stupid and probably evil as well) and look at their arguments against other things.
NICE FUCKING POSITIVE PHILOSOPHICAL CLAIM YOU FUCKING RETARD
JESUS FUCKING CHRIST GODAMNED AMERICANS

>> No.10639274

>>10639221
>Here’s a thought: the value of philosophy is almost always mainly negative. As a heuristic, one should ignore whatever a philosopher advocates (because it’s bound to be wrong and stupid and probably evil as well) and look at their arguments against other things.
NICE FUCKING POSITIVE PHILOSOPHICAL CLAIM YOU FUCKING RETARD
JESUS FUCKING CHRIST GODAMNED AMERICANS

>> No.10639286

>>10639263
better than being a dumb left wing cunt though

>> No.10639295

>>10639263
rationalwiki and LW despise each other m80

>> No.10639352

>>10639263
Well shit, guess I'll never go to that place again. This guy says it's bad and he must be a paragon of intellect.

>> No.10639728
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10639728

>slatestarcodex

>> No.10639762

I got about halfway through MacIntyre's book, but I couldn't finish it. It was just too convoluted for me, and an absolute disorderly hodge podge. It was like walking into a knick knack store. Aristotle is probably rolling in his grave. That book has virtually nothing to do with Aristotelianism.

>> No.10639769

>>10639244
Check the blogroll on the left hand side of SSC. Thelastpsychiatrist gets mentioned here pretty often, as well as his gay spirit child hotelconcierge

>> No.10639795

>>10639769
>laspsychiatrist
don't waste that anon's time. last psych can very easily be summarized in a post, no point in reading him:
>hurrrr everything is narcissism
>hurr why dont you like michael bay

>> No.10639824

>>10639762

PLEB

>> No.10640047

>>10639221
>scott "THINK OF THE STATISTICS" alexander
>>10639769
>theredditpsychiatrist
spoiler alert: narcissism

>> No.10640074

>>10639769
Read a few TLP articles; they felt purposely vague to obscure a lack of logical connection and make the author seem clever.

Premises seemed to hinge on blanket generalisations (usually on gender, or "the system") that the reader has to accept as axioms.

Whole blog gave off a TheRedPill, edgy cynical vibe.

>I'll give you a moment to catch up.

>> No.10640171

OP here. Agree with >>10640074. TLP is like Zizek, worthless insight porn.

>>10640047

Agree with this. Psychiatry is bullshit. No amount of masturbating with statistics can change that.

But I am amused with now he btfo the book. His 1,3,4 summarises pretty much all the fucking retarded "critiquers"

>> No.10640196

>>10639295
they are all positivist bugmen computer programmers

>> No.10640201

>>10639824
MacIntyre's writing is plebeian as hell. Not denying that I'm a pleb, btw.

>> No.10640910

>Your decadent individualist mind has no idea how disappointed Aristotle would be in you for even asking that. Did you even consider just being a virtuous city-state in which everyone is a great-minded soul acting for the good of the polis?
This is the objectively correct response to so called "moral dilemmas", if you disagree see yourself out.
>>>/ssc/

>> No.10642480

>>10640910
No, it's both a denial and extension of them.

>> No.10642521

>le lolbertarian I-can-only-orgasm-to-spreadsheets blog man

I wish HotelConcierge updated more often

>> No.10642789

>>10639221
h-how to get neck gainz

>> No.10643252

>>10640171
>>10640074
>>10639795
I'm guessing none of you have read Hipsters on Foodstamps or Wrong Lessons of Iraq.

>Agree with this. Psychiatry is bullshit. No amount of masturbating with statistics can change that.
This in particular makes me think you haven't actually read anything of his.