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Anonymous Tue Nov 19 12:55:40 2019 No.14197197 [Reply] [Original]

Was Voltaire actually profound, or just an entertaining polemicist like Christopher Hitchens?

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 19 12:58:40 2019 No.14197220 Was [literally anybody] actually profound, or just an entertaining polemicist like Christopher Hitchens?

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 19 13:08:59 2019 No.14197275 >>14197220 Yes, quite literally most of Western thought.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 19 13:26:30 2019 No.14197360 >>14197220 Kierkegaard was a profound, entertaining polemicist

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 19 13:42:04 2019 No.14197436 >>14197197 he was rather an entertaining polemicist, but a very good and probably smarter than most of his pairs. Not smarter than an actual philosopher though.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 19 18:28:13 2019 No.14199017 >>14197197 He was a pseud, but even pseuds were pretty smart back in his day