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Anonymous Fri Mar 5 20:25:11 2021 No.17707645 [Reply] [Original]

Philosophy is a waste of reading time. Reading thousands and thousands of pages on whether not “Dog” means “Dog” or whether ethics are objective or just kinda objective.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 5 20:26:13 2021 No.17707650 How does one non-philosophically decide what is and isn't a waste of time?

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 5 20:27:27 2021 No.17707658 >>17707650 Intuitively. There is no use in reading thousands and thousands of pages about it.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 5 20:27:27 2021 No.17707659 >>17707645 nice philosophy, what book did you read it from faggot?

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 5 20:28:16 2021 No.17707665 i like wasting

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 5 20:28:33 2021 No.17707668 >>17707645 There are many types of philosophy, many types of philosophers, and not all of them are good. All philosophy is not created equal, in terms of its value, meaningfulness and overall benefit for the individual.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 5 20:29:27 2021 No.17707674 >>17707668 I've read most of it. 99.9% of it useless.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 5 20:31:14 2021 No.17707689 >>17707645 I feel intuitively it’s more of a waste of time trying to raise awareness about what a waste of time reading philosophy is.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 5 20:31:29 2021 No.17707693 >>17707658 How does one non-philosophically give primacy to intuition?

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 5 20:32:09 2021 No.17707697 >>17707674 Such a sentiment is useless if you do not elaborate or give a reason to think thats true.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 5 20:33:21 2021 No.17707703 >>17707693 What does this have to do with reading thousands of pages?

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 5 20:34:22 2021 No.17707713 >>17707697 How about you tell me what parts of philosophy are worth reading thousands of pages for?

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 5 20:41:19 2021 No.17707739 >>17707713 thus OP exposes himself

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 5 20:44:13 2021 No.17707757 >INTUITIVELY realized philosophy was a waste of time! >has read MOST of philosophy! ( let's say one million books) I need to get out of here. sometimes I forget this site is full of underages

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 5 20:44:49 2021 No.17707759 >>17707739 ?

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 5 20:45:51 2021 No.17707764 >>17707757 That's not what I said retard you need to learn to read. I was saying that most people intuitively come to the same exact conclusions without ever reading philosophy. Everything that I've read people already know.

Anonymous Fri Mar 5 20:53:39 2021 No.17707810

>>17707645
The thing is, asking whether "dog" means dog or not, goes all the way back to language itself. And all these ludicrous smaller examples like Plato's "form of a cup", they all go way back to first principles of life. Questions which have a value by their very asking, because they bring the facts of life to you.

That is the importance of high philosophy.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 5 20:55:16 2021 No.17707820 >>17707810 We already know all of this though. We don't need to read thousands of pages on it.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 5 20:57:25 2021 No.17707842 philosophy is love of wisdom, literally if you don't love wisdom, you don't need to read it if you do love wisdom, you do need to read it simple as

Anonymous Fri Mar 5 20:57:42 2021 No.17707844

>>17707764
>That's not what I said retard you need to learn to read.
How does one non-philosophically decide what is and isn't a waste of time?
>Intuitively.
All philosophy is not created equal, in terms of its value, meaningfulness and overall benefit for the individual.
> I've read most of it. 99.9% of it useless.

nigga you are probably 12. go do your homework

Anonymous Fri Mar 5 21:03:02 2021 No.17707889

>>17707820
You most certainly do not. The eternal truths one learns from Plato, you would never arrive at really without reading him, or some derivative of him.

It's the same as saying "well I already know all the questions posed in Hamlet so I have no need of reading it", and even if you did know all the "questions" literally, you would have no understanding of their real weight and as a result would not know them.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 5 21:03:07 2021 No.17707890 >>17707844 You are either baiting or you aren't understanding my points. Reread and then post again.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 5 21:07:23 2021 No.17707922 >>17707889 Name some

Anonymous Fri Mar 5 21:15:05 2021 No.17707957

>>17707890
How does one non-philosophically decide what is and isn't a waste of time?
>Intuitively. There is no use in reading thousands and thousands of pages about it.
There are many types of philosophy, many types of philosophers, and not all of them are good.
All philosophy is not created equal, in terms of its value, meaningfulness and overall benefit for the individual.
>I've read most of it. 99.9% of it useless.

go do your homework for fucks sake kid!

Anonymous Fri Mar 5 21:16:15 2021 No.17707966

now a lot of guys here think they've heckin owned OP!!!!
but the thing is, this sentiment is pretty common, and going 'um ackshully ur philosphizing rn!!!" doesn't actually make someone opposed to a large portion of academic philosophy suddenly value it.

So while reading philosophy is only a waste of time to the beholder, most of you in this thread have wasted your time trying to be pedantic, and coming off as retarded.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 5 21:23:03 2021 No.17707994 >>17707957 I'm not responding until you actually restate my points as I wrote them.

Anonymous Fri Mar 5 21:42:10 2021 No.17708106

>>17707994
Anonymous 03/06/21(Sat)02:25:11 No.17707645▶>>17707659 >>17707668 >>17707689 >>17707810

Philosophy is a waste of reading time. Reading thousands and thousands of pages on whether not “Dog” means “Dog” or whether ethics are objective or just kinda objective.

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Anonymous 03/06/21(Sat)02:26:13 No.17707650▶>>17707658

How does one non-philosophically decide what is and isn't a waste of time?

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Anonymous 03/06/21(Sat)02:27:27 No.17707658▶>>17707693

>>17707650
Intuitively. There is no use in reading thousands and thousands of pages about it.

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Anonymous 03/06/21(Sat)02:27:27 No.17707659▶

>>17707645 (OP)
nice philosophy, what book did you read it from faggot?

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Anonymous 03/06/21(Sat)02:28:16 No.17707665▶

i like wasting

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Anonymous 03/06/21(Sat)02:28:33 No.17707668▶>>17707674

>>17707645 (OP)
There are many types of philosophy, many types of philosophers, and not all of them are good.
All philosophy is not created equal, in terms of its value, meaningfulness and overall benefit for the individual.

>>
Anonymous 03/06/21(Sat)02:29:27 No.17707674▶>>17707697

>>17707668
I've read most of it. 99.9% of it useless.

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Anonymous 03/06/21(Sat)02:31:14 No.17707689▶

>>17707645 (OP)
I feel intuitively it’s more of a waste of time trying to raise awareness about what a waste of time reading philosophy is.

>>
Anonymous 03/06/21(Sat)02:31:29 No.17707693▶>>17707703

>>17707658
How does one non-philosophically give primacy to intuition?

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Anonymous 03/06/21(Sat)02:32:09 No.17707697▶>>17707713

>>17707674
Such a sentiment is useless if you do not elaborate or give a reason to think thats true.

HOMEWORK

Anonymous Fri Mar 5 22:01:17 2021 No.17708237
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>>17707764
A way of expressing what you mean without bothering people might be, "Is philosophy just explaining intuitive truths in an intelligent and complicated way?". And then for the image upload a picture of Car Schmitt's face next to his "friends and enemies" meme quote. Maybe mention Lucretius or Hume for pseud points.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 5 22:24:42 2021 No.17708361 File: 95 KB, 708x800, 1560551851652.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>17707844 >nigga you are probably 12. go do your homework

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 5 22:27:11 2021 No.17708377 >>17707645 Philosophy is the counter-weight to every imaginable endeavor. If philosophy is waste of time, so is everything else.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 5 22:32:47 2021 No.17708417 >>17708377 No there is actually use in learning things like economics, history, math etc.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 5 22:34:09 2021 No.17708426 >>17707764 Well at least you convinced yourself. That's one person.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 5 22:34:10 2021 No.17708427 >>17707645 Reading "history of philosophy" books is the real waste of time.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 5 22:42:02 2021 No.17708474 >>17708417 That's a philosophical position you are throwing out there like it's a fact

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 5 23:05:04 2021 No.17708631 >>17707645 Do you value having a clearer understanding of concepts, even if it is useless? If not, then of course philosophy is useless.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 5 23:42:55 2021 No.17708863 >>17707645 ...according to your philosophy.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 5 23:47:49 2021 No.17708889 >>17707645 u kno wat else is a waist of time ur moms gaping vagina at 69 years old

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 6 00:35:52 2021 No.17709161 >>17707645 https://discord.com/invite/baMD76mMT5 https://discord.com/invite/X3xujhKfNJ

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 6 02:13:40 2021 No.17709577 >>17707645 The entire linguistic turn has been a disaster for philosophy.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 6 02:31:24 2021 No.17709680 >>17707645 People who think anything they enjoy is a waste of time, are slaves who automatically want to serve a master

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 6 02:32:52 2021 No.17709697 >>17707739 I bet OP is your typical arrogant glinty eyed mud.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 6 02:34:24 2021 No.17709707 >>17707966 What the average man thinks does not matter because they do not have the power to make me do anything. I only have to fear the government and some criminal elements.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 6 02:34:50 2021 No.17709711 >>17707650 >>17707693 based

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 6 02:35:52 2021 No.17709720 >>17707645 That's in itself a philosophical position. Everything is philosophy because everything is conjecture and philosophy is just conjecture with an academic aesthetic. The essence is synonymous.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 6 02:37:43 2021 No.17709729 >>17707966 You think like a nigger and type like a tool. What sort of man let's himself become a niggertool?

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 6 02:38:29 2021 No.17709732 >>17707645 reading novels is a waste of time, reading philosophy is productive

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 6 03:32:53 2021 No.17709934 >>17707645 Reading histories of philosophy is indeed worthless. Just read the primary works.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 6 03:36:19 2021 No.17709950 >>17707645 My intuition tells me this thread is a waste of time, since it appears to be a pointless argument starter.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 6 03:49:09 2021 No.17709993 >>17707650 They don’t.

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