/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.2861496]

is hegel worth reading in times of nondeterminism, evolution theory and wittgenstein?

i'm 50% into "philosophy of history" and my feel is that all the stuff he talks about is outdated on every level even though his eloquence and the grand scale of the topics remains interesting to read.
His comparison between physical laws behind the motion of planets and the laws behind history reminds me of cheap pop-science authors who try to link quantum mechanics to consciousness and soul.

[Anonymous No.2861510]

Who cares about Wittgenstein?

[Anonymous No.2861520]

>>2861496
>wittgenstein
loling hard

>>>/sci/

[Anonymous No.2861522]

>>2861510
0/10

[Anonymous No.2861526]

>>2861510
those who prefer to remain silent when the topic comes to "spirit" and "volition in its true form"

[Anonymous No.2861532]

A marxist post-structuralist continental Ecole Normale Supérieure professor and feminist activist was teaching a class on Martin Heidegger, known hermeneuticist.

”Before the class begins, you must get on your knees and worship Nietzsche and accept that his genealogical method was the most highly-evolved theory the continent has ever known, even greater than Hegel's dialectics!”

At this moment, a brave, rational, positivist analytic philosopher who had read more than 15000 pages of Popper and Wittgenstein and understood the raison d'être of empiricism and fully supported all modern hard sciences stood up and held up the constitution.

”How universal is this text, frenchfag?"

The arrogant professor smirked quite Jewishly and smugly replied “It's not universal at all, fucking positivist, its 'truth' is rooted in our shared understandings about culture, the subject and the nexus of power and knowledge”

”Wrong. It’s been 225 years since human reason created it. If it was not universal, and post-modern relativism, as you say, is real… then it should be regarded as a myth now”

[Anonymous No.2861539]

>>2861526
Haha, well fuck those bores. They're not gonna get anywhere

[Anonymous No.2861534]

>>2861532
The professor was visibly shaken, and dropped his chalk and copy of On Grammatology. He stormed out of the room crying those ironic post-modern crocodile tears. There is no doubt that at this point our professor, Michel Foucault, wished he had pulled himself up by his bootstraps and become more than an AIDS ridden sadomasochist interested in fisting. He wished so much that he had some kind of truth to hold on to, but he himself had written to disprove it!

The students applauded and all rolled into American universities that day and accepted Wittgenstein as the end of philosophy. An eagle named “Formal logic” flew into the room and perched atop the copy of "Principa Mathematica" and shed a tear on the hardcover. The last sentence of "Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus" was read several times, and Karl Popper himself showed up and demonstrated how dialectics is nothing but a means of justifying contradictions.

The professor lost his tenure and was fired the next day. He died of the gay plague AIDS and his "books" were disregarded for all eternity.

[Anonymous No.2861540]

>>2861532
>>2861534
the saddest part of this copypasta is that most people can't work out who it is making fun of

[Anonymous No.2861541]

>>2861532
>>2861534
You're doing it wrong, and you've done it wrong more than once. It's supposed to start a new thread, and it's supposed to have Bertrand Russell smoking a pipe

[Anonymous No.2861549]

>>2861541
>being this new to /lit/

[Anonymous No.2861555]

>>2861549
>being this new
I have the pasta saved. It starts as a new thread, and it has this picture.
>>2861540
It makes fun of both sides, and it implies a love for both sides, through sheer knowledge.

[Anonymous No.2861567]

>>2861555
you're really stupid, man :(

[Anonymous No.2861578]

>>2861567
It's a gift. ;)