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15761555 No.15761555 [Reply] [Original]

*single handedly refutes Kierkegaard*

>> No.15761580

>lul, having principles is fukken lame
What an atrocious way to live.

>> No.15761594

>>15761555
How so?

>> No.15761629

>>15761594
It doesn't. Either/or is stronger than that KEK

>> No.15761654

>>15761580
enjoy being thirteen

>> No.15761662

>>15761555
Ew, I would die for any arbitrary belief system, martyrdom is badass

>> No.15761663

>>15761555
>Gets BTFO by Wittgenstein in kind
What now?

>> No.15761664

>>15761654
What? Because I hold convictions I'm immature? I don't understand your logic here, bud.

>> No.15761666

>>15761662
Any is kinda stupid. But saying that one should never do it is fucking retarded.

>> No.15761669

>>15761580
have fun dying lol

>> No.15761675

>>15761663
>Wittgenstein gets BTFO by WIttgenstein

>> No.15761678

>>15761555
No one cares about kierkegaard, desu

>> No.15761684

>>15761669
That isn't the point, anon. It is more like not having fun living after not dying. Check this out.

Marry, and you will regret it. Do not marry, and you will also regret it. Marry
or do not marry, you will regret it either way. 11 Whether you marry or you
do not marry, you will regret it either way. Laugh at the stupidities of the
world, and you will regret it; weep over them, and you will also regret it.
Laugh at the stupidities of the world or weep over them, you will regret it either way. Whether you laugh at the stupidities of the world or you weep
over them, you will regret it either way. Trust a girl, and you will regret it.
Do not trust her, and you will also regret it. Trust a girl or do not trust her,
you will regret it either way. Whether you trust a girl or do not trust her, you
will regret it either way. Hang yourself, and you will regret it. Do not hang
yourself, and you will also regret it. Hang yourself or do not hang yourself,
you will regret it either way.Whether you hang yourself or do not hang yourself, you will regret it either way.

>> No.15761686

>>15761678
You do.

>> No.15761700

>>15761686
No, I don't, and neither care about anyone's ethic or moral beliefs

>> No.15761707

>>15761675
>Plato gets BTFO by Plato
>Nietzsche gets BTFO by Nietzsche
>Wittgenstein gets BTFO by Wittgenstein
>Foucault gets BTFO by Foucault
People's thoughts and beliefs aren't static and it's only natural to let them evolve while renouncing others and admitting that you are wrong. It's all part and parcel to the life of a philosopher, which Russell was not.

>> No.15761710

>>15761555
William James retroactively refuted this fag in Will to Believe

>> No.15761713

>>15761580
Illiterate moron.

>> No.15761714

>>15761707
Doesn't matter desu. Dunno why anons care so much about it.

>> No.15761717

>>15761700
Why post in this thread, then? Because you don't care? Seems like a strange way to behave regarding something you claim not to care about...

>> No.15761722

>>15761717
KEK because it is fun to watch ofc

>> No.15761723

>>15761707
Russell is widely regarded as the greatest philosopher of the 20th century.

>> No.15761730

>>15761555
Stupid reasoning, but honestly doing anything for a belief is a bad idea

>> No.15761731

>>15761714
Yes it does. You should read a philosopher's corpus in chronological order, else your head will be full of schizophrenic and incompatible ideas.

>> No.15761734

>>15761555
He is witty i give him that

>> No.15761738

>>15761722
It's fun to watch yourself posting?

>> No.15761742

>>15761723
lol no, that would be Martin Heidegger, hands down.

>> No.15761744

>>15761713
Illiterate? well, I did write that post (and this one) so I don't see your point.

>> No.15761745

>>15761731
I don't mind, anon. I just read to have fun and provoke people.

>> No.15761748

>>15761742
Heidegger isn't even a philosopher. He just wrote random gibberish.

>> No.15761753

>>15761744
Not taking your word for it, sorry.

>> No.15761757

>>15761748
>I'm not willing to put the labor necessary into reading it
>Thus it's gibberish
Imagine being this small minded.

>> No.15761758

>>15761738
You might get it someday.

>> No.15761759

>>15761757
It's total nonsense, anon. Snap out of it.

>> No.15761765

>>15761748
Obscurantist sure, but that still doesn't stop him from being the most influential philosopher of the 20th century by academic consensus.

>> No.15761772

>>15761758
That you don't make any sense? I understood that from your first post. ;)

>> No.15761777

>>15761759
>I don't know how to make sense of this guy, nor do I want to put in the effort to do so. Therefore, he's wrong

>> No.15761781

>>15761772
I'm not the same, anon. KEK Now you might get it.

>> No.15761788

>>15761772
I'm unironically the >>15761684 who quoted either/or on this thread. Just having some fun, anon.

>> No.15761803

You can't die for your beliefs. You can only be killed for them. An ocean's breadth of a difference, I'm sure you'll agree.

>> No.15761818

>>15761555
>Bertrand Reddit
>Refuting anything

>> No.15761850

Where do i start with kirkegaard

>> No.15761867

>>15761803
The martyr effect is a thing.

>> No.15761873

>>15761850
I recommend 'The Banquet' from STAGES ON LIFE'S WAY. It's a piece modelled on Plato's SYMPOSIUM, with various speakers giving speeches on the nature of women. Quite insightful and also funny.

>> No.15761883

>>15761555
>Spend life destroying the false idols like mentioned in the bible
>After I die, awake to Moloch, Beezlebub, and the rest of the crew laughing at me
Still worth it, fuck child sacrifice fags

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>>15761850

Fear and Trembling

>> No.15762172

>>15761723
by whom?

>> No.15762178

>>15761777
If he had anything to say, he would have written something coherent.

>> No.15762188

>>15761765
That would probably be Foucault

>> No.15762189

>>15761730
Why call him stupid then?

>> No.15762195
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>>15761555
I still find it funny that he idolized Lenin until he meant them in person and Lenin was like "yeah we do kill people lmao" and he got super asshurt about it.

>> No.15762197

>>15761555
His beliefs might be wrong or he might be wrong to die for them?

>> No.15762251

>having doubt before committing to your own will
>not accepting all tragic consequences and following your own conclusion
Bertrand Russell is spiritually a faggot, and is not worthy enough to be heard by those who hold any sense of surety. A common misinterpretation of intelligence on part of Anglo cultural stereotypes is of the puzzled little man, burdened with the idea of contradiction; why is it, anons, that this little man does not deal with that subject of contradiction with love and grace? Simply put, he is unable to traverse a reality that is not composed of linear approximations, of what is instantly forseeable to his own eye. If you are unwilling to jump headfirst into the events of this world, let alone die for what can live only in our reason, what worth do you have?

>> No.15762274

>>15761700
You clearly care enough to want to BTFO'd.
I think you care.
>>15761758
That you care? We already get it.

>> No.15762278

>>15762251
You sound positively deranged.

>> No.15762327

>>15761555
What's the point of being right?

>> No.15762335

>>15762327
Do you like being wrong?

>> No.15762428

>>15762278
Yes, what about it? A single second of my life is worthier to exist than everything that you have ever experienced

>> No.15762438

>>15762195
lmao he still kept shilling communism, he just didnt like stalin or lenin

>> No.15762462

>>15761669
Y-you too

>> No.15762486
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>>15762438
Those were like the best parts of Communism anyway. Did he become a filthy Tr*t?

>> No.15762493

>>15762195
The way to tell the difference between a real communist and a liberal is their attitude to class struggle, ie what to do with enemies.

>> No.15762516

>>15762178
no u

>> No.15762570

>>15762493
A Communist doesn't necessarily have to go full Chekist, but moralizing is not a feature of Communism. Morality has no bearing on the material or Marx's analysis.

>> No.15762637

>>15761555
>I c-can't be wrong, better have no convictions!
>dies anyway

I want to resurrect this little slaveboy fag and show him how fully he's been refuted within linguistic and analytical philosophy to see the terror in his eyes at how far he's always been from any kind of Truth and then pump his tight little Britbong ass with my superior faith-filled seed and send him back to the grave. What a stupid fucking thing to say. Only a Brit would be smarmy and cunty enough to say something so pathetic.

>> No.15762646

>>15762188
Not really

>> No.15762655

>>15761555
>wife is being raped and murdered by a group of men
>only chance to save her is to through yourself into it and allow her to run off
>whelp sorry honey but I might be wrong in dying for you, you never know

>> No.15762667

>>15762637
He literally said the opposite, dicklick.

>> No.15762671

>>15762646
Foucault is heavily cited in modern academic circles, IIRC he's actually the most cited.

>> No.15762673

It just an an admitanse that might is right. And that he is a just pussy.

>> No.15762684

>>15762655
He means the philosophical principles he subscribes to, jackass. Dying for your wife is not dying for your beliefs.

>> No.15762692

>>15762671
Only by people in pseudointellectual junk departments like Sociology and 'Cultural Studies".

>> No.15762702

>>15762692
Well yeah because he's a dumb faggot, but 20-21st century academia is all dumb faggots.

>> No.15762738

>>15762684
>Dying for your wife is not dying for your beliefs.
It literally is. Think about it anon.

The fact that Brand in his intent even separated dying for people from dying for beliefs shows his idiocy.

>> No.15762744

>>15762738
You're an idiot.

>> No.15762774

>>15761555
Russell's entire philosophy is based on innate cowardice. Hiding behind a veil of "logical" safety, convicted only by those things which wouldn't deride too harsh derision. When he did receive such, in that well known letter that ripped him to shreds, Bertrand confesses he thought of suicide.

>> No.15762935

>>15761684
That is some of the worst prose I've ever read.

>> No.15762939

>>15761666
What did satan mean by this

>> No.15762988

>>15761555
Good for him because he was indeed absolutely wrong about everything. Even his works on logic and language are a meme. How did this hack get popular again?

>> No.15763145

>>15762988
>greatest philosopher of the 20th century
>vs
>4chan autist who never read a book in his life
I'll go with Russ.

>> No.15763191

>>15762935
Its a shitty translation of the the original paragraph. But I have no idea what translation that anon is using because its not the standard one.

>> No.15763228

>>15762774
>in that well known letter that ripped him to shreds
which one was it again? I wanted to check it out some time but forgot

>> No.15763285

>>15763145
Greatest philosopher of the 20th century is Carl Schmitt retard

>> No.15763304

>>15763285
Lmao.

>> No.15763316

greatest philosopher of the 20th century was D.Z. "Deez Nutz" Phillips

>> No.15763430
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>>15761555
What a dumb retard. A conscious action presupposes a decision, which is based on a belief (example: I choose to eat because I believe I’ll stop being hungry if I do so). Hence, deciding not to die for a belief is a belief in itself, so you’ll always follow a belief either way, even if you aren’t sure about it, therefore, to not hold a belief is contradictory since you’re already holding a belief.
As long as you’re conscious and able to act, you’re forced to hold a belief, to die or not to die, to rebel or not to rebel, to act or not to act are all beliefs one is forced to decide and act upon every day. To truly give up one’s own beliefs is to give up one’s own will.

>> No.15763492

>>15761867
how can you die a martyr if youre not killed?

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15763512

you can't be wrong in the first place if you don't worship some 'facts' like some fedora atheist. you should die for a subjective, like the Emperor for example.

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15763513

>>15761555
Anglos BTFO

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15763546

>>15761555
>le epic logical atheist who proves philosophy with math

Pic related is the only "empiricist" I respect

>> No.15763600

>>15761555
If he ever bought shop from chuck, he would only have to change the name on the signboard.

>> No.15763620

>>15763512
>5'1"
Fucking dropped

>> No.15763622

>>15761675
1 Trust nobody
1.1 Nobody is the totality of people
1.11 The totality of people includes yourself

>> No.15763670

>>15761555
Would he die for his disbeliefs then? He just BTFO himself

>> No.15763728

>>15761555
“I have no beliefs id risk things for because I could be wrong!” Wrong about what?....if you think you’re right and you belief in something morally then why would you worry about them being “wrong”. Not everything is objectively good or bad, what a shitty pretentious quote.

>> No.15763729

>>15763620
>muh height
it's only manlets obsessed with this shit, I'm 190cm, know people taller than me and none of us care.

>> No.15763731

>>15763546
Your respect must mean so much people, anonymous internet retard who can't seem to read. Hume's scepticism is what convinced Russell to assume his views.

>> No.15763734

>>15763620
That's the least of his problems.

>> No.15763906

>>15761555
>"A calculating man is a coward. I say this because all calculations have to do with profit and loss, and such a person is therefore constantly preoccupied with profit and loss. To die is a loss, to live a gain, and so one decides not to die. Therefore one is a coward. Similarly, a man of education camouflages with his intellect and eloquence the cowardice or greed that is his true nature. Many people do not realize this."

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>>15761555
*steals peirce's syntax without citation*
*steals logic from boole-peirce-schorder
*restates truths already known in a needlessly pedantic form in literallywho frege's notation*
*cons whitehead into doing all the actual logic*
*cavils against the boole-peirce-shroder that he stole from in a wildly successful attempt at self aggrandizement*
*retards the logic of relation and confuses the history of logic for a very long time*

>> No.15763945

>>15761723
>most influential*
i think there is a great devide between greatest and biggest name.

>> No.15763961

>>15762570
Then why do Communists claim their worldview is morally Just and superior to the current system ?

>> No.15763962

>>15761664
Your convictions are a consequence of your circumstances, anon. You're choosing a hill to die on—choosing, not being compelled by some greater force than you. Might as well sacrifice yourself in the name of futa porn.

>> No.15763984

>>15763962
yah, and ehy would you not? you are choosing a subjective to critique a subjective. most people wouldnt because the qualitative nature of futa porn by and large is seen as unaesthetic in a higher sense. however, if one perfected the craft like a professional sculptor perfected sculpting there is nothing wrong with that. it is simply that by and large people see the subject as unworthy of higher commitment, if someone finds thecontrary to it and expresses it so, i only have respect for them.

>> No.15764079

>>15762774
>>15762251

Spot on. Russell was an arrogant coward.

>> No.15764114

>>15761850
learning danish, bøsserøv

>> No.15764167

>>15761555
The quintessential Anglo. As always, Nietzsche was right.

>> No.15764576

>>15763932
don't forget

*immediately after all this gets life work BTFO by Godel, with a simplicity and genius he could never have dreamed of*

>> No.15764581

>>15761723
Source?

>> No.15764588

>>15761555
Daily reminder that Russell was Yesfap

>> No.15764594

>>15764576
I'm going to call your bluff on this. If you do not understand Godel's theorems you have to say so right away.

>> No.15764741

>>15764594
I Read GEB, don't claim to be a Mathfag tho.

>> No.15764781

Bertrand Russell was a liberal so of course this his opinion and that's because liberals don't even know that they have actually convictions they just think everything they believe is "natural" and "normal".

>> No.15764795

>>15764594
I've read the original proof and a number of supplementary materials.The core of PM was certainly refuted utterly, namely the project of generating a consistent and complete arithmetic. Once Godel had shown that the final leap towards generalizing the proof to other first order (or, obviously, higher than first order) constructions isn't very involved or at least involves no other insights.

>> No.15764803

>>15764795
I should clarify I've never read PM! So maybe it wasn't refuted at all. I don't care. Hilbert and Russel were btfo

>> No.15764854

>>15761666
nice try satan we see you

>> No.15764860

>>15763961
they shouldn't have to. If Marx was right it will replace capitalism on its own because of muh dialectics.

>> No.15764917

>>15764860
This right here is the biggest flaw with communism
Marx thought that the revolution was going to happen soon because work conditions were going to get worst.
It has gotten better since the technologies improved working conditions so much. There will never be a communist revolution in the traditional sense.

>> No.15764951

>>15763731
Kiss the ass of this pseud doesn't make you intelligent

>> No.15764968

>>15763906
Who said this

>> No.15764975

>>15764917
We'll have to wait until the automation revolution to see, when the majority of humanity will be forced to become NEETs and will have nothing to lose

>> No.15764977

>>15764968
zachariah macintosh

>> No.15764996

>>15761723
>Russell is widely regarded as the greatest philosopher of the 20th century.
What was the criteria on which it was decided? Popularity among the masses?
Not even pseuds take him seriously

>> No.15765012

>>15764996
Bertrand Russell was such a brainlet that he didn't even understand Wittgenstein's thesis. Imagine being this dumb.

>> No.15765016

>>15761555
>I might be wrong.
And he was. What a fucking hack.

>> No.15765029

>>15761580
>having principles is fukken lame
This but unironically.
>>15762428
How could you possibly know that?
>>15763430
You're 100% wrong but I'm too lazy to explain why.

>> No.15765046

>>15765012
I remember reading his history of western philosophy, the chapter on hegel convinced me nothing this brainlet had to say was worth any time

>> No.15765104

>>15765046
What he says about Nietzsche in that book is also the dumbest shit anyone has ever said about Nietzsche.

He literally at one point says: "Where's the math, Friedrich?" as if you can't be a philosopher if you don't know math.

>> No.15765181

>>15765029
>You're 100% wrong but I'm too lazy to explain why.
cope, I’m sorry that le epic logic man was shit at everything else

>> No.15765203

>>15764968
Excerpt from Hagakure. Taken from Mishima's short book on the samurai ethic. A great read.

>> No.15765207

>>15764977
dubs confirm

>> No.15765287

>die for your beliefs
>turn out you were wrong
>all the new dead guys laugh at you
can't even shoot up the place cause they already dead

>> No.15765589

>>15765104
as if you can't not be a brainlet if you don't know math

>> No.15765669

>>15762178
And literally everyone from Levinas and Derrida to Hubert Dreyfous and Timothy Morton are just perpetuating the ruse that he has something to say for what purpose exactly?

>> No.15765697

>>15765669
tenure

>> No.15765903

>>15765589
Intelligence is not knowledge. Brainlet.

>> No.15765923

>>15761555
Is he the most reddit philosopher of all time?
>atheist
>liberal
>actual cuck
>smug attitude even though he's an idiot
>revolting phenotype

>> No.15766349

>>15765046
Hegel deliberately wrote nonsense and tried to pass it off as philosophy. You got conned.

>>15765104
Nietzsche was a literal wanker who wrote embarrassing power fantasies.

>He literally at one point says: "Where's the math, Friedrich?"
Never happened. Blatant lying only proves Russell's point.

>> No.15766355

>>15765923
Plebbitors are the only people who bash him. Go back.

>> No.15766418

>>15763961
That's exactly what I mean. Lenin or Marx never claimed it. Relying on morality means those are liberals clothing themselves in red.

>> No.15766427

>>15764917
It seems only now is Marx's predictions coming true.

>> No.15766432

>>15762744
>phoneposting
>name calling
>nothing more
admittance of defeat.

>> No.15766433

>>15761723
Only by anglo mongoloids and their fans

>> No.15766461

>>15763430
the thread ended here
>>15765029
>but I'm too lazy to explain why
anon.

>> No.15766469

>>15761555
What a smarmy little weasel. Zero bravery, zero convictions. Just a fact-addicted spineless cunt. This guy would drink man's cum if it meant living forever.

>> No.15766485

>>15763430
>Some guy from /lit/ BTFO'd a supposedly great 20th century philosopher
This is why I love this board.

>> No.15766498

>>15763430
>taking the flimsy constructs of folk psychology this seriously
Nice try, brainlet.

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>>15766355
t. redditor trying to pretend he belongs here

>> No.15766510

>>15766469
If you're so sure of your beliefs, why don't you kill yourself now?

>> No.15766526

>>15766502
You would fit right in on Plebbit. Brainlets tend to avoid Russell's History because of "muh bias". Hilarious.

>> No.15766579

>>15766526
Russell is peak reddit. Atheist, "Science is awesome" type, analytic phil, anti-Christianity, you name it, the whole package.

>> No.15766587

>>15766510
I don't believe in suicide. It goes against my beliefs.

>> No.15766602

>>15766498
nah, he's right. Russell is following a belief. And he died believing it.

>> No.15766605

>>15766579
> anti-Christianity
You're confusing him with Nietzsche. Learn to read, son.

>> No.15766617

>>15766587
Contradiction.

>> No.15766632

>>15766602
Nope. Try again.

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>>15766605
You should follow your advice, kid.

>> No.15766660

>>15766653
Learn the difference between 'non-' and 'anti-', little buddy.

>> No.15766662

>>15766632
You are yet to disprove the guy. YOU try again and address his argument.

>> No.15766676

>>15765203
Do you have a link for it? I can't find anything.

>> No.15766696

>>15766660
He attacks Christianity in the book and protrays it negatively. That's textbook anti. You don't necessarily have to be like Dawkins and his fedora club who want to remove every trace of it in order to be anti-Christian.

>> No.15766701

>>15763906
holy BASED

>> No.15766705

>>15761555
Yeah but it doesn't matter because then you're dead
This dude just keeps digging a hole for himself

>> No.15766717

>>15766617
Yes.

>> No.15766720

>>15763430
>What a dumb retard. A conscious action presupposes a decision, which is based on a belief (example: I choose to eat because I believe I’ll stop being hungry if I do so).
OK.

>Hence, deciding not to die for a belief is a belief in itself,
False. Decisions are not beliefs.

>so you’ll always follow a belief either way
Russell never made any claims about "following beliefs" in general.

>even if you aren’t sure about it, therefore, to not hold a belief is contradictory since you’re already holding a belief.
Russell never claimed not to hold beliefs.

>As long as you’re conscious and able to act, you’re forced to hold a belief
OK.

>to die or not to die, to rebel or not to rebel, to act or not to act are all beliefs one is forced to decide and act upon every day.
False. Those are decisions, not beliefs.

>To truly give up one’s own beliefs is to give up one’s own will.
Russell never made any claims about "giving up one's own beliefs".

>What a dumb retard.
Nice self-description.

>>15766662
See above. That anon's "argument" is just incoherent word salad.

>> No.15766721

>>15761723
No that'd be Guenon

>> No.15766814

>>15761555
Bertrand Russell was and always will be a loser. He lived and died like one.

>> No.15766840

>>15766814
Unintentionally ironic post of the day from an incel basement dweller. Where's your Nobel Prize?

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>>15766720
>>15766840
You're taking up half of my screen with your reddit spacing.

>> No.15766933

>>15766890
Seething incel brainlet.

>> No.15766952

>>15766840
I'm Bob Dylan, kid.

>> No.15767018

>>15761555
>being fallible
Get a load of this faggot

>> No.15767036

>>15761684
>hang yourself and you will regret it
No you won't, you will cease to exist

>> No.15767045

>>15764996
>pseuds don't take him seriously
sounds like he must be pretty based

>> No.15767053

>>15767036
He means in the last few seconds of your life. Like in that film Filth with James McAvoy.

>> No.15767069

>>15766890
No argument.

>> No.15767256

>>15763962
>Your convictions are a consequence of your circumstances
>You're choosing... not being compelled by some greater force than you

Since you can't even work out your own position, why don't you fuck right off and let the big boys continue their discussion?

>> No.15767292

>>15767045
or an utter joke.

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>>15761555
>>15761580

>> No.15767310

>>15767296
>not knowing what centrism is
cringe

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>>15766720
>False. Decisions are not beliefs.
A rational decision is based on knowledge, otherwise it wouldn’t be rational. When making a decision you’re choosing which knowledge is true about a certain object or objects, and a belief is knowledge regarded as true. What I mean is that you’re always gonna have to choose a belief and base your decision around it, that’s where anguish comes from, not being sure about one’s own beliefs (which end up affecting decisions) and it is why kierkegaard justifies the leap of faith, because at doing so reason is trascended.
> Russell never made any claims about "following beliefs" in general.
When choosing not to die for his beliefs, he’s adopting a belief against his own, meaning that he’s always gonna have to follow a belief one way or the other.
> Russell never claimed not to hold beliefs
but why is he choosing another belief he isn’t sure about either way?
> Russell never made any claims about "giving up one's own beliefs".
he’s doing so when choosing not to die for them

>> No.15767972

>>15761555
>I would never live for my beliefs because I might be right.
How scary.
Didn't this guy spend his whole life spouting what he believes almost non-stop? lol

>> No.15768017

>>15767971
>A rational decision is based on knowledge, otherwise it wouldn’t be rational.
Not necessarily.

>When making a decision you’re choosing which knowledge is true about a certain object or objects
By definition, all knowledge is true.

>and a belief is knowledge regarded as true
No, you got it backwards. Knowledge is a species of true belief.

>What I mean is that you’re always gonna have to choose a belief
Beliefs are not chosen.

>and base your decision around it, that’s where anguish comes from, not being sure about one’s own beliefs
That's not anguish. That's rationality.

>(which end up affecting decisions) and it is why kierkegaard justifies the leap of faith, because at doing so reason is trascended.
It's not "transcended". It is simply ignored.

>When choosing not to die for his beliefs, he’s adopting a belief against his own, meaning that he’s always gonna have to follow a belief one way or the other.
False. Choosing not to die for his beliefs is a decision, not a belief.

>but why is he choosing another belief he isn’t sure about either way?
Beliefs are not chosen.

>he’s doing so when choosing not to die for them
False. Having a belief does not require that you act in a certain way as a result. Behavior is the result of decisions, which take into account desires as well as beliefs.

>> No.15768026

>>15767972
Who are you quoting?

>> No.15768070

>>15768026
Bertrand Russel, friend. All I did was change his phrasing.
-A=-A -> A=A
>I would never die (-A) for my beliefs because I might be wrong (-A).
>I would never live (A) for my beliefs because I might be right (A).

>> No.15768102

>>15768070
idiot

>> No.15768103

>>15768070
this is why continentals should stay out of logic

>> No.15768105

>>15768070
Lol. Take a logic class, brainlet.

>> No.15768116

>>15768102
>>15768103
>>15768105
And no information was transferred to me.

>> No.15768154

>>15761555
Beliefs by definition are not "right" or "wrong" because beliefs (in a philosophical sense rather than a colloquial usage of the word) are fundamentally answers to ought questions not is questions. Answers to ought questions can rely on assumptions that are informed by is questions, but they are by definition unfalsifiable.

>> No.15768164

>>15768105
lmao, why would you ever waste your time trying to communicate with someone who needs to take a logic class? LOL

>> No.15768209

>>15768116
Are we your fucking phil teachers, shithead?

>> No.15768213

>>15761555
He can go fuck himself

>> No.15768259

>>15761555
>I-I might be wrong though
Wuss

>> No.15768282

>>15768209
Apparently. You're the one who spoke to me trying to correct my thinking.

btw, you failed miserably.

>> No.15768340

>>15768282
> la la la, i'm not gonna listen anyway! xD

>> No.15768378

>>15768340
What was communicated? It's possible I missed something. Otherwise, seriously, fuck off.

>> No.15768409

>>15768378
"you're wrong, try again"

What, you want hand-holding?

>> No.15768417

>>15761555
Textbook definition of a pusillanimous.

>> No.15768424

An objective uncertainty, held fast through appropriation with the most passionate inwardness, is the truth, the highest truth there is for an existing person." A genuine leap of faith will not be a temporary and exchangeable choice.

>> No.15768457

>>15761555
Believing you might be wrong is still a belief. This man is retarded.

>> No.15768472

>>15768409
Let's go over the symbols that were typed to me.

>>15768102
>idiot
Gibberish

>>15768103
>this is why continentals should stay out of logic
If what I typed (>>15768070) was not-logical then how did this person receive any communication other than gibberish?

>>15768105
>Lol. Take a logic class, brainlet.
Using logic to tell someone they need to learn logic.
Again, meaningless typed symbols.

>> No.15768493

>>15767036
No most people that attempt suicide and survive it report the strong regret they had.

>> No.15768499

>>15768070
Lets say X is true. If X is true then not X is false.
It is raining or it is not raining. By inverting his statement you carry an entirely different meaning, and the truth value of the adjusted statement cannot be considered equivalent to the original statement. You made an inversion.

>> No.15768522

>>15764917
As a socialist or socialist adjacent person, that is the big issue that I have with standard Marxism.
This idea of eventuality and guaranteeing of a mass uprising. Its a kind of 'just so' story that takes the onus of change and development out of the hands of people that are around and gives it to some nebulous future.

The other issue for me is that it gives history a direction and an apparent end point, something that is simply not really true.

>> No.15768569

>>15761555
he was reviled in old age and lived on a couch.

>> No.15768660

>>15766676
https:// b-ok .cc/book/5206789/04442f
https:// b-ok .cc/book/2344851/c06972

>> No.15768668

>>15766696
Why wouldn't you be anti-Christian?

>> No.15768686

>>15761555
yep. cool guy. those who die for beliefs are stupid larping pederasts and deserve death.

>> No.15768693

>>15768668
Because that's for bugmen.

>> No.15768697

>>15761555
>thread
What he means is that a fear of wrongness is an inherently ignorant reason to die, the skeptical interpretation is just half of the entendre.

>> No.15768699

>>15768569
based

>> No.15768703

>>15768693
Following any kind of philosophy that can assert itself with no proof is as lowbrow and foolish as possible.

>> No.15768729

>>15761684
>Hang yourself, and you will regret it. Do not hang
yourself, and you will also regret it. Hang yourself or do not hang yourself,
you will regret it either way.Whether you hang yourself or do not hang yourself, you will regret it either way.

stupidest shit id ever read. many people are glad they didnt hang themselves in retrospect

>> No.15768741

>>15761580
having principles is not lame, dogma is

listen only to the spirit, disregard all other stimuli

>> No.15768757

>>15768703
That's what Chads do. Incel virgins pursue muh logic muh facts muh sources.

>> No.15768770

>>15768729
And many people are sad they couldn't kill themselves.

>> No.15768776

>>15768499
>Lets say X is true. If X is true then not X is false.
>It is raining or it is not raining.
If you look hard enough, you will always find a place where it is raining in the universe (the totality). Does this mean everything else in the universe (the totality) is somehow false? How silly would it be for me to think that because I found a place in the universe (the totality) where rain is happening, that this means everywhere else is 'false'.

In other words, this is the information I am receiving from you:
Rain is happening on Venus. Therefore everything on Mars is false (even the logic happening within the rover computers.)
>By inverting his statement you carry an entirely different meaning, and the truth value of the adjusted statement cannot be considered equivalent to the original statement. You made an inversion.
What other meaning was carried? Describe to me the two opposed situations.

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>>15768757
this. every group claims that they are "empirical" and "rational" and everyone else is irrational. its just one long dick waving contest that no one will ever win. at least people who go with their gut instinct are intellectually honest.

>> No.15768828

>>15768776
>you will always find a place where it is raining in the universe (the totality).
That just means the statement it is rainin is always true.
>Describe to me the two opposed situations.
Living for something is different from dying for something.

>> No.15768829

>>15768803
Ideally two opposed groups can find common ground and work together in order to foster growth. The point is you have to actually believe in something in order to get started, which is something that many people don't even have the balls to do.

>> No.15768861

>>15768828
>That just means the statement it is rainin is always true.
And?
>Living for something is different from dying for something.
We all die though, and you have to die for something. Dying for nothing is gibberish, and dying for 'sitting in front of a couch watching reality tv' is pathetic.

I'm not saying go jump in front of a bus. That is the other end of the extreme. I'm saying calculated risks are necessary for growth.

>> No.15768955

>>15768017
>Not necessarily.
yes it is, whether it’s a priori or posteriori, a thought needs information to be formulated.
>By definition, all knowledge is true.
Not truth in an universal way, but what seems to be true, which can be wrong.
>No, you got it backwards. Knowledge is a species of true belief.
I meant in a subjective way, if I believe in something I regard it as true, whether it’s actually true or not.
> Beliefs are not chosen.
elaborate on that
> It's not "transcended". It is simply ignored.
It goes beyond reason, that’s what I meant.
>That's not anguish. That's rationality
Anguish comes from the limitation of reason, as the subject isn’t able to predict an outcome.
> False. Choosing not to die for his beliefs is a decision, not a belief.
A decision based on a belief, I choose to get up in the morning because I believe it is convenient, I choose to work/study because I believe it is convenient, he chooses not to die for his beliefs since he believes it is convenient.
> False. Having a belief does not require that you act in a certain way as a result. Behavior is the result of decisions, which take into account desires as well as beliefs
A decision needs a relation between subject and object to be stablished by the subject (which can be both abstract and sensitive), so the nature of the object can be defined, thus making it a belief the subject has of the object.
Behavior and desires are the result of the subject with its context, therefore they are influenced by perception, which is a belief before rationality

>> No.15769282

>>15766510
>If you're so sure of your beliefs, why don't you kill yourself now?
This is the most blatantly retarded attempt at a gotcha I've ever read on this godforsaken site.

>> No.15770446

>>15761555
>I might be wrong
I thought logic and rationalism were infalible, why would he be afraid of it?

>> No.15770467

>>15763513
That's very German of him

>> No.15770473

>>15761555
>Never dies for what he believes in.
> Fucking pussy

>> No.15770479

>>15763906
Sounds like something nietzsche and bataille would say

>> No.15770526

>>15766526
He's literally the fedora-tipping, "OMG I fucking LOVE science" type that hates going to church because his mom made him do it when he was young (despite using a perverted form of Christian values to pursue leftist and liberal ideals in society). That's your prototypical redditor. The only thing different about Russell is that he's not a consoomer, but he's just as much of a modern basedboy as anyone on that shithole of a site.

>> No.15770601

>>15768955
You keep explaining the processes of experience.
>Belief, an unknown which you can attempt to rationally approach and predict.
>Experience, what you believe meeting the real and changing your rational.

Belief is how you approach and possibly resolve an unknown unknown. You can believe in an afterlife, but never know. Choosing your belief is impossible for it requires reason, but this reason is baseless, i.e. leap of faith.

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>>15761555
Kierkegaard is about living for your beliefs more than dying for them. Russel could never understand that or philosophy in general as evident by his terrible book on the matter. Russel should stick to mathematics and watching other men impregnate his wife (which he did, as an 'educated' progressive), that's the kind of proto-bugman mediocrity that suits him best, where one is attached to life but nothing in life.

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>>15770680
>tfw only now reading this thread
It's amazing to see the confluence of greater thinkers across time and space, from the Ancient Greeks to the Samurai to the Prussians all coming together in similar philosophical consanguinity to btfo Anglo cretinism. It might even be a sort of proof of god itself, for disparate groups and peoples to all arrive at the same conclusions in response to the nature of nature.

>> No.15770953

>>15761675
>>15763622
fuuugggg

>> No.15770960

>>15770710
There are those that rule and those that obey, those that rule are always the minority and the elite.

>> No.15771015

>>15763430
give up one’s own will.

that was his point. he wanted to create a cultural holocaust so he can slide in his own nonsense in the vacuum.

>> No.15771076

>>15766349
>Hegel deliberately wrote nonsense
t.coping fag who lacks the mental prowess to understand hegel

>> No.15771150

>>15768741
t. Hesse

>> No.15771175

>>15768522
A mass uprising is guaranteed at some point, upper classes too stupid to understand the masses need a bit too and can't be squeezed forever getting overthrown is a tale as old as time. Marx's assumption of higher modes of production is his greatest weakness.

>> No.15771265

>>15761555
So you would live for your belief that life is important? I refuted him, Socrates refuted him, but beyond this, I hate Bertrand Russell, he's shit.

>> No.15771289

>>15761723
Hello R***** :`)

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>>15766676
Like most of Mishima's more obscure works it is almost impossible to find for less than $100. Just pinch it from the uni library if you are student. Otherwise, hope the other anon's link works.

>> No.15771553

>>15761580
not having principles is a principle

>> No.15771595 [DELETED] 

>>15763620
>>15763729
>>15763734
Yeah unironically I'm tall and all other tall people I have met care 0 about their height except for maybe the occasional ego rub it gives in social circumstances, but because of the immediacy and familiarity of our height it's impossible to all, even the narcissist, to pride oneself on it because we realise how ephemeral it is to life.

>> No.15771613

>>15771549
Can I walk into a uni library if I don't go to uni, or will they just look at me funny and ask me who I am until I leave?

>> No.15771656

>>15771613
Lol, have no idea.

>> No.15771666

>>15771613
>Walk into
Yes
>Borrow books
Depends, usually not. You should be able to read them inside tho

>> No.15771718

>>15771666
Once you get into a library, pinching books is pretty easy. Just rip tags out in the loo.

inb4 immoral.

>> No.15771758

>>15761555
Self-refuting isn't he? Fucking pacifist.
A whole generation of Brits died while he was muh war is so bad.
McTaggart go go go

>> No.15771763

>>15766676
https://archive.org/details/wayofsamurai00mish_0
https://b-ok.cc/book/3652714/9646a4 - this is a better epub than that other guy's

>> No.15771778

cuckretard

>> No.15771812

>>15761723
by reddit atheists

>> No.15771884

>>15771656
Thanks.

>>15771666
>>15771718
>get it
>dammit! toilets are at the entrance outside the loaning area
What now?

>> No.15771894

>>15771884
*get in*

>> No.15772256

>>15770680
The most based post on /lit/ right now.

>> No.15772281

>>15771175
lmao imagine sincerely believing this
people today are COMPLETELY owned body and soul by institutionalized propaganda they can't even detect
the poor and the downtrodden have never been more docile and placated

>> No.15772290

>>15766720

>anon makes a post describing how decisions are beliefs
>"False. Decisions are not beliefs." is somehow a refutation

>> No.15772407

>>15772281
No they aren't. Who do you think is fueling BLM?

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>>15772407
the same propaganda institutions

>> No.15772533

>>15772407
https://youtu.be/P18UK5IMRDI

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>>15772533
>>15772407
Imagine thinking you're the uprising of the poor or underrepresented when every single giant corporate entity endorses you and every media outlet from CNN to Twitter is on your side and silences your detractors.

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>>15772523
Nothing to see here, MOVE along.

>> No.15772599

>>15771884
Do you have a bag?

>> No.15772623

>>15772599
Ah misread your post anon.

>> No.15772738

>>15762178
You have to read Heidegger in German. He's untranslatable after 1935.

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>> No.15772814

>>15772746
>Let us become strangers again
Fuck man, that hurt MY soul reading that. Savage.

>> No.15772859

>>15772746
>>15772814
https://journals.openedition.org/lawrence/226
i've been browsing this. provides context for this letter. there was a lengthy attempt at collaboration, but i think their relation succumbed to fundamental differences in temperament and outlook. this was, unfortunately. a pattern for russell.

>> No.15772913

>Bertie Russell talks about democratic control and the educating of the artizan, and all this, all this goodness is just a warm and cosy cloak for a bad spirit. They all want the same thing: a continuing in this state of disintegration wherein each separate little ego is an independent little principality by itself.
>Russell [...] wants to keep his own little established ego, his finite and ready-defined self intact, free from contact and connection [...] That's what they all want, ultimately [...] they want an outward system of nullity, which they call peace and goodwill, so that in their own souls they can be independent little gods, referred nowhere and to nothing: little mortal Absolutes, secure from question.

>> No.15772955

>>15764975
If that were to happen, would there be meaning in a revolution at all?

>> No.15772965

>>15761580
Don't let dead people tell you how to live your life be free sweet child

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>>15761555
How about not dying for your beliefs even though you know you are right?