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hey /lit/, what are good online introductory lectures to philosophy?
>pic unrelated

>> No.3133976

Michael Sandel is pretty good, particularly his stuff on Utilitarianism. It is very basic though.

>> No.3133979

https://itunes.apple.com/us/itunes-u/general-philosophy/id381701319

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>>3133975
>is that meant to be utilitarianism or pragmatism

>> No.3135622

>>3135585
sounds sartrean to me

>> No.3135642

>>3135622
>>3135585
plebs treating arbitrary value systems as mutually exclusive.

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>>3135585
>>3135622
It's Schopenhauer.

>> No.3135651

>>3135585
Schops thought that denial of the will was the only enlightened way to live, Nietzsche called it Western Buddhism. Fulfilling the will brought temporary happiness, but the will was also the cause of all suffering.

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>>3135622
>>3135642
>>3135646

We just finished our course in philosophy about morals this week. You know, we had all that Bentham and Mill, Kant, Hegel, Kierkegaard, Løgstrup, more Kant, some Rorty and finished with Nietzsche.

When we're discussing, i cannot bring up other related works im reading, for example reading the world as will and representation at the moment. I also read the entire works, when we're just reading small parts of each work. This results in discussions which seem like the troll threads on /lit/, everyone just says their own meaning without any real facts or logic.

>>3135651
>Western Buddhism
A guy asked why we didn't look at eastern philosophy and buddhistic ideas, and Nietzsches idea about a Western Buddhism popped into my head, I tried to discuss what he meant by it but noone had heard about that before, and the other guy was one of those militant atheists so the debate was dead when it started...

pic related, this is great for some ideas about not only Nietzsche but also the philosophers he was inspired by