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[Anonymous No.4653436]

whats the coolest philosophy?

[Anonymous No.4653442]

Meta-ethics, and Philosophy of Mind

[Anonymous No.4653444]

is this a fucking joke. nietzche

[Anonymous No.4653445]

Naturalism and moderate scientism. I you want to impress the girls, then it's existentialism.

[Anonymous No.4653451]

>>4653444
>nihilism
>cool
>not fedora as fuck

[Anonymous No.4653452]

>anything outside the analytic school
baldingmanplayingbaseball.jpg

[Anonymous No.4653455]

anarchism

[Anonymous No.4653456]

>>4653452
George

[Anonymous No.4653476]

Arguably panpsychism, when presented in an Analytic framework. It's like bizarre stoner "philosophizing" with precision added. Formalism in the philosophy of math is also neato, although I myself am skeptical of it.

[Anonymous No.4653507]

>>4653452
you're joking right?
analytic school doesn't have anything on the chain smoking, french, gay, 'rhizome' thinking, anti-anti, deconstructing continentals

[Angry Lit Major No.4653523]

>>4653436
Humanism. Be a good person, be good to others, let the rest sort it out.

I hate philosophy, and philosophy majors moreso.

[Anonymous No.4653524]

idk situationism or something?

[Anonymous No.4653531]

>>4653436
swagism

[Anonymous No.4653541]

absurdism

just look at this cool motherfucker

[Ann No.4653588]

>>4653541
I did, is amazing.

[Anonymous No.4653608]

Depends if you're talking about coolest philosophy/philosopher to talk about or the coolest philosophy to live your life by.

For the former it's none. Unless you're in educated company in which you absolutely have to talk about philosophy in which case it's probably Hegel.

For the latter it's probably Camus or Nietzsche's 'Amor Fati'.

And if you're in hipster company just talk about Marx or Baudrillard

[Anonymous No.4653618]

>>4653608
Hipsters are bloody insufferable. When they are confronted by someone who actually knows iota about Baudrillard, they get defensive and try to segue the conversation to something else.

[Anonymous No.4653624]

post-sophism

[Anonymous No.4653629]

>>4653436
anti-natalism for sure

[Anonymous No.4653636]

>>4653523
can't tell if you're trolling or stupifyingly stupid

[Anonymous No.4653642]

If American, anything European and written before you were born. Super trendy.

[Anonymous No.4653645]

Philistinism.

[Anon No.4653678]

hath no body mentioned da great Buddhism yet?

[Anonymous No.4653705]

>>4653678
only fake buddhism i.e. teenage girls on tumblr that have no idea what they're preaching is cool. buddha was a radical who taught a form of psychological suicide

[Anon No.4653730]

>>4653705
ok what's your point. Buddhism is still the coolest.

>inb4 there is no cool or uncool, no dualities at all, jerk me off or don't jerk me off i'm exiting the wheel of samsara now g2g bi

[Anonymous No.4653736]

>>4653451
>nihilism
>nietzsche

gr8 outta 8

[Anonymous No.4653738]

>>4653705
>actually arguing over a term like "cool"
Seriously? A thread on "what's the coolest philosophy" and you are making a difference between genuine buddhism and new age teenage white versions of it? Do you think anyone can ever make an argument for a true philosophy, any philosophy that is duh cool 1 without being at least 3/4 joking about it?

[Anonymous No.4653749]

>>4653730
>g2g bi

Sounds like the kind of statement a cocksucking white trustfund buddhist vegan would have on a rainbow bumper sticker.

[Anonymous No.4653756]

Cynicism, Pyrrhonist Skepticism, Absurdism

[Anonymous No.4653757]

Objectivism.

Self as number one, for without the self, there can be no true connection with others. Honesty & realism as key components. Life as a choice. Personal responsibility.

Logic > Feels

Please, somebody prove this wrong.

[Anonymous No.4653762]

>>4653736
if you truly hold weight in either of those things: kill yourself

[Anonymous No.4653768]

The answer is obviously fucking Stoicism. It's a philosophy about staying cool.

[Anonymous No.4653772]

>>4653756

these, but also pre-religious Taoism

[Anonymous No.4653775]

>>4653768
Dennis Bergkamp is a well-known Stoic.

[Anonymous No.4653779]

>>4653756
Skepticism is for the asshole that wants sit around all day, circle-jerking to the thought of themselves sucking their own cock.

[Anonymous No.4653783]

German <-WW2-> French <-9/11> Slovenian

[Anonymous No.4653786]

A naturalist, a fallacy but also the most practical philosophy.

Someone who sees and respects the natural order, but also wishes to usurp them because it is natural to usurp.

[Anonymous No.4653794]

>>4653772
I like you

[Anonymous No.4653799]

>>4653779
you're thinking of Cynicism

[Anonymous No.4653803]

>>4653779

not really. Pyrrhonism holds that behaving like a normal member of society is a perfectly good thing to do because it doesn't involve any radical claims to truth, it's just going with the flow.

[Anonymous No.4653813]

>>4653799
BUT HOW CAN YOU EVEN KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE TWO

>>4653803
BUT HOW CAN YOU KNOW YOUR DEFINITION OF PYRRHONISM IS REAL?

Skepticism had its place, but sticking with it is anything but productive.

[Anonymous No.4653819]

>>4653436
Define: cool

[Anon No.4653824]

>>4653749
man you're angry.

[Anonymous No.4653826]

>>4653813

You're confusing Pyrrhonian skepticism with Academic skepticism. The latter is the one that says YOU CANNOT EVEN KNOW THAT YOU CANNOT KNOW THAT YOU CANNOT KNOW, etc. etc., whereas the former is merely the withholding of assent to any proposition.

[Anonymous No.4653890]

>>4653705
Oh, come down off that high horse. People commit psychological suicide every day. Most of them do it again the next day, too. Whole world keeps spinning just fine.

[Anonymous No.4653963]

>>4653762
He's right though. Nietzsche is not a nihilist. More of a moral nihilist.

[Anonymous No.4653973]

>>4653963
Join these people:

http://vhemt.org/

& kill yourself.

[Anonymous No.4653984]

>>4653973
>http://vhemt.org/
>thinks nihilism is equitable with anti-natalism.

[Anonymous No.4653986]

>>4653963
>a dodge charger isn't a car. more of a muscle car.

[Anonymous No.4653989]

>>4653783
>implying Belarusian philosophy isn't hot shit right now

[Anonymous No.4653992]

>>4653890
>Everything is really everything maaaaaaan

You're retarded.

[Anonymous No.4653995]

>>4653986
An existential nihilist believes in the non-applicability of one's life in an objective lens upon the world.

A moral nihilist believes in the non-applicability of one's morality in an objective lens upon the world.

One is depressing, the other is uplifting.

[Anonymous No.4654004]

>>4653995
And to add on to this, Nietzsche detested Nihilist in it's inception, to call Nietzsche a nihilist means you haven't read enough Nietzsche

[Anonymous No.4654011]

Is there a name for McLuhan's philosophy and similar schools of thought?

His ideas seem very relevant to the modern world at least.

[Anonymous No.4654018]

Stoicism
Absurdism
Whatever Nietzsche's is called
Sikhism (some parts)
Taoism
Realism (if it counts as a philosophy)
Machiavelli's stuff

All others are false philosophies and nihilism.
That's right /lit/, come at me.

[Anonymous No.4654039]

>>4654018
>Taoism
Eh. I guess it's cool just for the ponytails and the tassel-swords.

[Anonymous No.4654051]

>>4654039

>ponytails
>tassel-swords

whoa now, sounds like you're deforming your essential nature with fripperies and will never end up flourishing. i bet you spend your days debating hardness and whiteness as well.

[Anonymous No.4654052]

platonism is cool again

[Anonymous No.4654060]

>>4654039
Bend or break nigger. The Tao requires one to adapt in life, to bend to circumstance so that good may be done even in the worst of adversity.

[Anonymous No.4654075]

>>4654011
i know McLuhan is said to have belonged to the Toronto School of communication, but i know very little about any of the other thinkers associated with that school.

[Anonymous No.4654080]

>>4653757

>Self as number one, for without the self, there can be no true connection with others.

>Please, somebody prove this wrong.

Replace all instances of the word "self" with the word "others," and the argument is equally valid.

You're welcome.

[Anonymous No.4654086]

>>4654080
Perspective. Fuck Kant.

[Anonymous No.4654090]

>>4654080
If you live only for others, then who do you expect will fill your husk? You're really going to give that responsibility to another?

If there is no self to contribute to a collective, then there is no collective.

[Anonymous No.4654115]

>>4654080
I guess I Kan't refute that.

[Anonymous No.4654116]

>>4654090

The point of my post was only to show the flaw in the argument, not to defend an opposing one.

The request was made to disprove the Objectivist argument for the priority of the self over others; this refutation was done by showing that, on the very same logical grounds, the priority of others over the self could be established.

>If there is no self to contribute to a collective, then there is no collective.

And if there are no others besides the self, there is also no collective. So if we're trying to defend rational self-interest over communal-interest, we need a shiny new argument.

[Anonymous No.4654122]

>>4654080
>>4654090
>>4654116
The concept of a collective is nothing but a spook, an illusionary phantasm preying upon your minds. There is only the individual and what his own will applies to.

[Anonymous No.4654125]

>>4654115

[Anonymous No.4654127]

>>4654115

ur 1 cheeky kant m8

[Anonymous No.4654131]

>>4653436
Modal logic

[Anonymous No.4654171]

>>4653507
I hate Deleuze so fucking much

[Anonymous No.4654184]

Discordianism

[Anonymous No.4654262]

>>4653436
alan wattsian

[Anonymous No.4654263]

>>4653436
Nietzsche

[Anonymous No.4654269]

>>4653992
No, everything is everything and that's the case.

bro do u even Wittgenstein

[Anonymous No.4655207]

>>4654269
>a proposition without sense
Do you, bro?

[Anonymous No.4655212]

dudeism

[Anonymous No.4655219]

>>4654184
mah fniggord

[Anonymous No.4655287]

>>4653436
Rationalism

[Cool Man Luke !!0aHqY2/owxC No.4655304]

Absurdism is the best and coolest by a googolplex times infinity.

Screencap this post for ever and sticky it to all philosophy threads permanently.

[Anonymous No.4655310]

>>4654122
>not realizing the ego is the ultimate spook
no stirner, you are the zombie

[Anonymous No.4655320]

>>4653451
>nihilism
Nietzsche was not a nihilist he was a naturalist. He said Christianity was nihilistic, which it clearly is. Believing things happen because of their inherent properties that are observable (Nietzsche) vs. believing that a being that cannot be observed using ideas that are not used in the way they are portrayed in the bible (love etc.) can save our lives etc. is much more nihilstic because all of its pillars are clouds.

[Anonymous No.4655325]

Heideggerianism.

[Anonymous No.4655326]

To take 'cool' literally, Nietzsche is anything but. He despised drinking at bars and hanging out. He's all about struggle from despair and overcoming obstacles, nothing 'cool' about that.

[Anonymous No.4655334]

>>4655326
Is not cool a pretty subjective term or is it to be taken as hip?

[Anonymous No.4655357]

>>4655304

[Anonymous No.4655446]

>>4653436

DON'T LISTEN TO THEIR DEMONIC LIES OP. EARTH HAS 4 CORNER SIMULTANEOUS 4-DAY TIME CUBE WITHIN SINGLE ROTATION. 4 CORNER DAYS PROVES 1 DAY 1 GOD IS TAUGHT EVIL.
IGNORANCE OF TIMECUBE4
SIMPLE MATH IS RETARDATION
AND EVIL EDUCATION DAMNATION.
CUBELESS AMERICANS DESERVE -
AND SHALL BE EXTERMINATED.

[Anonymous No.4655453]

Situationism, obviously

[Anonymous No.4656962]

>>4655287
I like the turn Rationalism has taken into neo-Rationalism. (e.g. LessWrong, Overcoming-Bias)
The naive realism that Objectivism espouses is quite off putting, and methought would lead people to believe Randist philosophy as rational, if not pseudo-rational at best.

[Anonymous No.4656969]

>>4655453

This.

[Anonymous No.4657074]

>>4655453
>>4656969
Video you might enjoy.

Young, dumb situationist tries to interrupt Lacan to make a situation:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=6aqGYYBwKbQ

Fuckin' Frenchies, man.