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ITT: post important historical/literary figures you think you're smarter than.

Pic related. I think I'm plenty smarter than Plato and Aristotle. Aristotle might have known a few things about math but didn't know shit about the planets even though he thought he did.

>> No.1112429

Can't say your smarter than Aristotle cause you know more about the planets, unless you figured that shit out about the planets on your own.

>> No.1112432

You don't really know those things, you're just reciting them.

>> No.1112435
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I'm obviously alot smarter than Russell. My life's work hasn't been shat on by real philosophers & I'm able to understand Existentialism & Post-Modernism.

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>> No.1112440

>>1112435
>alot

>> No.1112447

>>1112440
>Alot is a town and nagar panchayat in the Ratlam district of Madhya Pradesh, India.
Read up, newfag.

>> No.1112451

>>1112447
>googled 'alot'
jesus fucking christ

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I am a whole lot smarter than Leopold and Loeb because I know more about perfect crimes and being an Ubermensch.

>> No.1112461

>>1112451
ctrl+double click

How's redundancy working out for you?

>> No.1112480

I'm smarter than Jesus because he thought the earth was made in seven days. Durrr.

>> No.1112497

pretty much anyone in history who was religious.

>> No.1112501

smarter =! more knowledgeable

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>> No.1112512

>>1112435
haha j'ai rit
you must be american for there is no such thing as "post-modernism" in any sensible place of the world (where they don't ban harry potter for magics, don't hunt prostitutes and don't blame the poor for poverty)

as to what concerns sartre-the-father, camus-the-son, de-beauvoir-the-mother and merleau-ponty-the-disciple - they were just gurgling up what they read in sorbonne together with what they misunderstood from occupationary mysticisms of the nazis heidegger and husserl. ("oh là là mein Alltag ist nicht Dasein. Es ist nicht authentischen Sein-on-selb! Ja ja! Ich bin Führer zu Liberty! Aber Heil Hitler!")

By the way, are there any news about the Arab stabber from New York? Was that a nuque rouge or hip person doing the étre-en-soi à la Meursault?

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>> No.1112522

>>1112512
>decrying post modernism
>implicates modernists
you dun goofed. The existentialists were the last gasp of modernism.
(not who you responded to by the way)

>> No.1112534

>>1112513
It's shopped. Wikipedia says the southern negro slaves were treated with diginity. Nor do they whip negroes in gone with the wind

>> No.1112541

>>1112522
>post modernism
>modernists
>The existentialists
>modernism.
you can stuff all your name badges up your arse -Arthur Schopenhauer

>> No.1112554

>>1112541
well, don't come to a post-modernism fight with concepts of individual agency and the possibility of ethics...or whatever. schopenhauer is now a forced meme. laddy dah.

>> No.1112572

>>1112554
no, there is no postmodernism

>> No.1112573

In time, you will know my name. I will make man great.

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>>1112573

>> No.1112601

>>1112422
Peoples thinking capacity is growing. The next generation after us will even be smarter. The generation Plato and Aristotle came from was a lot less intelligent than today's generations. Today people are more intelligent than any other point in history. This is NOT just knowledgeable, it's more intelligent.

>> No.1112616

>>1112601

You seem to be confusing the average with the individual.

>> No.1112621

>>1112572
no john, you are the postmodernism. i agree, there is no postmodernism. there is postmodernity, though. well really, there is just post-industrial, and post-modernity is a term to indicate the corresponding non-material products of post-industrial. a post-industrial in some ways begs new terms to describe its modality, the way it produces.

>> No.1112633

>>1112616
Variations are probably the same, so the smartest people today are smarter than the smartest people then. Of course this doesn't mean you are smarter than Aristotle or Plato.

>> No.1112638

>>1112621
what about post-industrial dark rape neofolk grundge metal, anon? take your name badges and shove them right up your arse.

>> No.1112652

>>1112638
too many badges for my virgin butthole, i'm afraid. you don't have fun playing the name game? that's your problem, buddy.

>> No.1112813

I'm smarter than Colonel Sanders I mean even though the guy knew a lot about fried chicken I know a lot more about quantum physics than he did.

>> No.1112850

Who was it that said, "I know I'm intelligent because I understand that I know nothing."?

>> No.1114350

a