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Why didn't philosophers express their ideas through novels? Wouldn't that have garnered a more wide scope of reader?

>> No.12802863

They used to

>> No.12802864
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12802864

cuz it suxx

>> No.12802865

>>12802856
Rousseau did.

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12802877

Why are asian women more attractive to me than any other type? Wouldn't I have a better chance of procreation if my dating pool wasn't restricted by phenotype?

>> No.12802880

Voltaire did.

>> No.12802894

>>12802856
That big camera is there to substitute the woman's castrated phallus.

>> No.12802902

The truly good ones did

Bacon
Voltaire
Diderot
Rousseau
Schlegel
Schelling
Nietzsche
Kierkegaard
Bataille
Blanchot

>> No.12802904

>>12802894
>That
>big camera

>> No.12802940

>>12802865
what's that Rousseau novel called that I wanted to read but never did

>> No.12802959

>>12802940
>The success of Julie delighted Rousseau; he took pleasure in narrating a story about how a lady ordered a horse carriage to go to an Opera, and then picked up Julie only to continue reading the book till the next morning. So many women wrote to him offering their love that he speculated there was not a single high society woman with whom he would not have succeeded if he wanted to.

holy fuck, Rousseau is based

>> No.12802978

>>12802856
They do. It's more common for continentals, though. A recent major philosopher who was also a major novelist was Michel Henry.

>> No.12802993

>>12802902

No Sartre?

>> No.12803000

>>12802993
no, he doesn't deserve to be mentioned desu

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>>12802856
H Ö L D E R L I N

>> No.12803198

>>12802856
I think I'm in love
with that coat

>> No.12803248

>>12802856
Because philosophy is a rigorous academic discipline with its own terminology, frameworks, theories, etc. A lot of philosophical ideas can indeed be expressed in fiction, but this is not optimal when you want to actually establish a formal theory in this field.
>wide scope of reader?
It doesn't have to be accessible to laypeople; the majority of philosophical works are written for other philosophers, much like the majority of science papers are written for scientists.
Only brainlets look at philosophy as 'smart guys talking about life' when it is much more than that. You wouldn't ask why physicists don't write their papers like novels, so apply the same logic here.

>> No.12803255

>>12803248
Christ just shut up

>> No.12803276

Plato's workis pretty much one long novel. Plebs think the dialogue form is merely a means of conveying the ideas superficially expressed in the dialogues; the real meat is in the character, actions, and fate of Socrates.

>> No.12803290

Deleuze and Land did that. Their work is as much art as it is philosophy

>> No.12803299

>>12802877
cause youre a pedo m8

>> No.12803340

Camus did

>> No.12803567

>>12802902
No camus?

>> No.12803600

>>12802877
asian women have been on average more sexually selected for neotenous features; you're attracted to cute women and there's nothing wrong with that