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Biggest bug man in philosophy? cast your votes

>> No.15267308

Marx

>> No.15267322

Russell

>> No.15267339

>>15267298
according to the definition of the Urban dic
the most bugman philosopher would be Ayn Rand, i think

>> No.15267341

>>15267308
how is marx a philosopher? go back to /pol/ retard

>> No.15267342

>>15267298
Peter Singer

>> No.15267404

>>15267308
ding ding ding

>> No.15267410

>>15267298
John Stuart Mill

>> No.15267414

>>15267341
Politics is philosophy, retard. Go back to whatever board you came here from.

>> No.15267478

>>15267298
I don't know, but I bet dollars to donuts it's some analytic or nu-atheist who shills for scientism, basic bitch secular humanism, and status quo neoliberal bullshit.

>> No.15267501

>>15267478
Dawkins

>> No.15267517

Pinker count?

>> No.15267521

>>15267298
Nagarjuna

>> No.15267530

Alain de Botton
Completely useless thinker who does nothing but rearrange the history of philosophy to make it sound like its purpose was always just to offer useful tips n tricks for feeling good during everyday life.

>> No.15267533

>>15267501
Dawkins can't even be considered part of philosophy

>> No.15267541

>>15267298
shut the fuck up and go back to /pol/

>> No.15267550

>>15267533
If he's not writing as a bad philosopher that means he's is writing as a good biologist

>> No.15267558

>>15267410
This.

>> No.15267622

>>15267530
That can be said for anyone who thinks philosophy is a buffet or museum of cool ideas where you can take bits here and there that's suitable for your prescriptive ends, which is just about every uni professor who teaches a phil course.

>> No.15267625

>>15267541
What?

>> No.15267632

>>15267541
Are you ok?

>> No.15267646

>>15267622
way more bugman of botton to run a youtube channel to monetize that attitude. at least professors make you ostensibly read the books. botton just summarizes them in a disingenuous way

>> No.15267666

>>15267625
>>15267632
Sorry guys. That's the Estonian I pay to periodically remind me to return to /pol/, where I am writing a series of important posts. While he can normally identify me on my posting style alone, he does make mistakes. Get it together, Kaspar.

>> No.15267711

>>15267298
René Guénon

>> No.15267934

>>15267530
>>15267622
Then what is philosophy for? In which specific way should it be used?

>> No.15267935

>>15267414
Philosophy is politics. Neck yourself before causing more harm.

>> No.15267941

>>15267298
Bugmen don't read philosophy, so...Malcolm Gladwell and other pop psychologists? Don't take this to assume reading philosophy makes you in any way better than bugmen.

>> No.15267950

>>15267298
E O Wilson

>> No.15267959

>>15267941
It's not philosophy, but Dale Carnegie, Jordan Peterson, Napoleon Hill, basically any self-help book marketed and written for men who would otherwise sneer at their wives' self-help books.

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The once and future king

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Any and all modern athiests

>> No.15268068

>>15267521
rude

>> No.15268280

>>15267934
Love of wisdom. Plato is the beginning and end of philosophy.

>> No.15268283

>>15268280
Plato was a buttboy and a pseud.

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>>15267341

>> No.15268304

>>15267298
Really none of the big names in philosophy were bug men.

>> No.15268388

>>15268304
Except Marx.

>> No.15268407

>>15267550
>he's is
checked

>> No.15268412

>>15267308
how is he a bugman? cite specific examples from his writing

>> No.15268579

I don't know what a bugman is so I will just name the bigger lunatics:
Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, Plotinus, Kant, Leibniz, Spinoza, Hegel, Fichte, Schelling, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Heidegger

>> No.15268868

>>15267298
Freud

>> No.15269306

>>15267410
Bentham is even worse though, Mill was just a bitch

>> No.15269325

>>15268388
>never read Marx or any other philosopher for that matter
>still forms opinions on topics he has never read about
The biggest bugmen are Utilitarians, Mohists, Legalists, but in particular Bentham and Singer.
You haven't read any of these either I imagine

>> No.15269329

>>15267298
It's me and yes I AM based.

>> No.15269369

Every single anglo "philosopher" ever. They literaly created the bugman (empiricism, pragmatism, liberalism)

>> No.15269383

>>15268388
Marx was a sperglord not a bugman.

>> No.15269422

>>15269369
this

>> No.15269433

>>15269369
based

>> No.15269444

Haha guys now who's the biggest epic fail in philosophy? xD
Who's the longest loooong cat in philosophy? Who can we officially title the Boxxie of philosophy? Lol!

>> No.15269461

>>15269444
You ok there, retard? I read your post and it kind of sounded like you're being a cock smoking little weenie. Would you happen to be a bug man, perhaps? Either way, I suggest you keep on moving.

>> No.15269475

>>15269461
How many times a day would you estimate that you read a post and immediately get vivid thoughts of sucking cock?

>> No.15269492

>>15269475
>t. weenie

>> No.15269506

>>15267342
this

>> No.15269509

all the bugman philosohers mentioned are jews, kek

>> No.15269512

>>15269509
jesus was a jew

>> No.15269651

>>15267298

Sartre, obviously

>> No.15269788

>>15267298
Rawls, no contenders

>> No.15269795

>>15267298
Proust
Why do you even ask, just look @ his face.

>> No.15269963

>>15267622
In secondary school, certainly, but surely not in University. Our professors do not have this approach, they simply choose not to comment, because their commentary is not the object of the class. Otherwise, I agree with your post.

>> No.15269965

>>15267342
>DUDE DON'T YOU GET IT? IF YOU JUST DONATE THAT FANCY WATCH YOU HAVE INSTEAD OF RUINING IT IN THAT LAKE YOU CAN SAVE MORE KIDS! IT'S SIMPLE FUCKING LOGIC BRO

>> No.15270038

>>15267530
This may very well be the correct answer, what a hack he is.

>>15267622
You're on point but what school are you going to where the quality of professors is that low in the philosophy department. Maybe babbys first Ethics/Intro Phil won't really bring out the best in anyone, but past that, I have never had any professor act like its a piecemeal intellectual museum.

>>15269651
Sartre would be a Chapocel if he were alive today, and thank god he isn't.

>> No.15270069

>>15269369
Pragmatism is actually based, I don't know what you are on about

>It's true if it works
Literally how Chads mind operates

>> No.15270149

>>15269325
>Mohists
Why

>> No.15270229

>>15267298
ITT... people who don't understand what the term "bugman" means.

>> No.15270239

>>15270229
t. bugman

>> No.15270268

>>15270239
>A bugman is anyone who disagrees with me.

>> No.15270272

>>15270268
that's not what it means bugboy

>> No.15270295

>>15270272
t. bugman

>> No.15270311

>>15270295
>A bugman is anyone who disagrees with me.

>> No.15270320

>>15267298
heidegger

>> No.15270384

>>15267298
Fukuyama

>> No.15270623

>>15268280
I can smell your objectivism from here. Every system is a cope or a partial observation of truth to make the philosopher feel good.

>> No.15270990

>>15270311
t. bugboy

>> No.15271113

>>15269369
/thread

>> No.15271139

>>15267342
Peak utilibro

>> No.15272190

>>15269369
you win /lit/

>> No.15272211

>>15270069
>it's true if it works
disgusting, reducing the concerns of philosophy to nothing more than a question of "utility". Literal bug's life logic

>> No.15272222

>>15267521
I'm not even close to being Buddhist but this is a shit take