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A Spooky Discovery Anonymous Wed Aug 26 21:05:55 2015 No.7033717 [Reply] [Original]

I just read Marcus Aurelius's Meditations, and he said something interesting.

>"Socrates used to call popular opinions 'bogies', things to frighten children with."

Sound familiar?
Was Stirner referencing Socrates? Are spooks = bogies? Were bogies a young hegelian meme?

Discuss.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 26 21:08:21 2015 No.7033726 File: 18 KB, 400x422, banana.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I really, really like this concept

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 26 21:08:58 2015 No.7033729 Similar but Socrates didn't go far enough and realize that unpopular ideas are spooks too

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 26 21:12:00 2015 No.7033740 COULD MOZART BE ALIVE? But seriously, nice find

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 26 21:12:06 2015 No.7033741 >>7033729 Can you explain that? The only thing Socrates called spooks are popular ideas.

>>	« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » Wed Aug 26 21:17:02 2015 No.7033755 File: 96 KB, 580x848, Examined Life.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Just doing what philosophers have always been up to. Questioning the status quo in order to live a better life

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 26 21:19:00 2015 No.7033762 File: 273 KB, 450x450, real spooky.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7033717 fuckin bogies man

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 26 21:22:44 2015 No.7033777 >>7033755 Is that movie worth watching?

Anonymous Wed Aug 26 21:26:18 2015 No.7033788

Bogies, according to Socrates point of view, are closer to "Thou Shalt not" rules rather than constructs.
Abstraction seems to be more important to Stirner, so I don't know if you could say they're the same.
Not to punch holes in what seems to be a legitimate theory.
Etymology aside, they both refer to a same ephemeral force:
4 more letters and they would be the same word in German.
Understanding language can sometimes be the key to understanding philosophy.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 26 21:29:38 2015 No.7033803 >>7033788 Very good points, I do not think that Stirner and Socrates were talking about the same things. Rather Socrates's use of "bogies" probably inspired Stirner's use of "spook." Do you know what the words are in German?

>>	« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » Wed Aug 26 21:29:58 2015 No.7033805 >>7033777 Been quite a while since I saw it. It was okay at the time.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 26 21:32:04 2015 No.7033813 >>7033803 You could probably find them by reading the first character of each line of my post :^)

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 26 21:37:30 2015 No.7033837 File: 864 KB, 160x270, EmilieClarkeLaughing.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7033813 >>7033813 >>7033813 >>7033813 >>7033813

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 26 21:38:42 2015 No.7033845 File: 306 KB, 640x1459, baneposting.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7033813 >>7033788 >baneposting while simultaneously providing a reasonable and well-thought out contribution to the conversation Colour me impressed, anon.

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