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>you will never live during a golden age of philosophy
>you will never travel to the heart of an empire to study at its foremost academic institutions
>you will never write lengthy unsourced polemics and have them read by emperors and kings
>you will never blossom in that unreviewed anarchic environment before sources and the publishing industry

>> No.5637430

>>5637416
>>you will never live during a golden age of philosophy
You might. They're not very rare. We had one in the early 20th century; the analytic revolution.

>> No.5637456

>>5637430

this. Almost every century after the 14 century had a charasteristic philosophic movement.

>> No.5637460

>>5637416
Academic papers and wikipedia killed philosophy.
>SAUCE
>le [citation needed]

>> No.5637481

>>5637430

You forgot the post-everything revolution two (Foucault, Deleuze, Derrida, Ponty, Sartre, Heidegger, etc...)

>> No.5637491

>>5637481
That is pretty much irrelevant today. Analytic philosophy took over and those 'philosophers' were just reacting against the new found academic rigour.

>> No.5637499

>>5637460

Your post perfectly embodies /lit/. Anti-intellectual garbage romanticizing past intellectual efforts.

>> No.5637607

>>5637491
>pretty much irrelevant today

>race, sex, and queer studies in the forefront of international debate

When's the last time you saw an analytic outside his linguistic ivory tower talking about something that's actually pertinent to the modern condition?

>> No.5637614

>>5637607
>race, sex, and queer studies in the forefront of international debate
Those things are meaningless outside of biology, though.

>> No.5637615

>>5637607
>queer studies in the forefront
>pertinent to the modern condition?

>>/tumblr/

>> No.5637623

>>5637615
>analytics

>> No.5637624

>>5637614

>my brain and my mind are the same thing

>> No.5637626

>>5637624
Where does the mind exist?

>> No.5637627

>>5637615

Not him, but those things and religion are all that people talk about and care about in the middle class sphere.

>> No.5637630

>>5637626

I'll get back to you when we've answered that question.

>> No.5637632

>>5637624
Thought is merely a function of the brain.
>>5637623
Nobody, outside of a few social outcasts on the internet, cares about your opinions on homosexuality and races.

>> No.5637634

>>5637632
>thought is merely

Okay mr. Dennett

>> No.5637637

>>5637630
It exists in the neocortex. Have you been paying attention to recent studies at all?
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC49701/

>> No.5637643

>>5637632
>Thought is merely a function of the brain

hahahahahaha

>> No.5637647

>>5637634
>>5637643
Great arguments here.

>> No.5637651

>>5637643
How is it not?

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5637658

>You'll never be a superstar continental critical theorist
>you'll never get to write fashionable gibberish and not bother having to cite references
>you'll never participate in student riots or waste tax-payer's money on bullshit funding for stupid shit
>you'll never have a legion of admiring students who you directly engage with and work among, and have access to fresh, young clueless undergraduate pieces of ass
>you'll never engage in petty politics and banter with other academic superstars

>> No.5637659

>>5637647

To say thought is a function of the brain is a useless platitude. It's obvious and says nothing about the mind.

>> No.5637665

>>5637659
Define 'the mind', please.

>> No.5637667

a non-physical substance which interacts with the brain via the pineal gland. Do some fucking biology, retards.

>> No.5637670

>>5637667
Who are you talking to?

>> No.5637672

>>5637665

A image we use to describe where our consciousness inhabits. But it's more pratically defined as the combination of our thoughts and awareness.

>> No.5637678

>>5637672
>thoughts
Function of the brain
>awareness
Function of the brain.
>consciousness
Function of the brain.

>> No.5637687

>>5637678

Which part of the brain named itself?

>> No.5637692

>>5637678

Which part of the brain convinces itself to like certain things to look cool to others?

>> No.5637695

>>5637687
>>5637692
This should answer all of your future questions.
http://www.rah.sa.gov.au/birs/bi_brain.php#map

>> No.5637704

>>5637416
>you will never live during a golden age of philosophy
Sam Harris is alive today. So is Stefan Molyneux. Your point is moot.

>> No.5638043

>>5637491
Analytic is no-name shit that no one writes 2ndary literature on. It's carried by anglo superiority in the economic and cultural spheres.

>> No.5638047

>>5637637
>>>/reddit/

>> No.5638050

>>5638043

It hurts because it's true.

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5638232

>you will never be a respected but obscure modern theologian
>you will never live in a comfy collegiate setting, in your modest but tastefully decorated oak home, wherein prominently displayed is Matthias Grünewald's crucifixion scene
>you will never spend your days examining scripture, writing a few sentences of your novel incorporating themes of grace in a theater of pestilence, lecturing hostile undergraduates, or advising the faithful

>> No.5638243

What's the 21st century Vienna?

>> No.5638247

>>5638243
New York

>> No.5638250

>>5638247

>americans think this

>> No.5638292

>>5638243


there isint one, civilization has gotten worse.

>> No.5638305

>>5638232
who is that?

>> No.5638307

>>5638292
>>5638243
Go to bed Clive James/Stefan Zweig

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5638308

>>5638305

>> No.5638335
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5638335

>>5637637
>consciousness, the mental world, is microgranular, with mental units called psychons, and that in mind-brain interaction one psychon is linked to one dendron through quantum physics
>psychon field confirmed for finally unifying physics

>> No.5638339

>>5638335

>you will never have a pet anteater

>> No.5638348

>>5638243
Easter European philosophy is the next big thing. Zizek and Dugin are probably the most relevant philosophers, the latter even being relevant in applied politics.

>> No.5638349

>>5637416

What exactly to you have to source when writing philosophy? I mean, it's philosophy, shouldn't your only source be reason and rhetoric? And occasionally cite other philosophers?

>> No.5638352

>anticipate a nice thread about Schopenhauer
>get 40 replies of analytic trolling

get a fucking life

>> No.5638477

>>5637499
I just dont like actually reading

>> No.5638502

>>5637647

This post really shouldn't be as funny as it is, you know.

>> No.5638569

>>5638349
Of you were writing in the Golden Age, your source would be Kant.

You also need to cite ideas that are not your own, not merely quotes.