/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.8051332]

Philosophy is the most superfluous academic discipline. Prove me wrong.

It produces nothing of use and is ultimately a meaningless game with words. Name one real contribution Philosphers have made to the world.

[Anonymous No.8051342]

Do not feed the troll, folks.

It's /sci/ baiting again.

[Anonymous No.8051343]

>>8051332
The Munchausen Trilemma :^)

[Anonymous No.8051351]

>>8051342
>>8051343
Nice arguments, folks. You're proving my point.

[Anonymous No.8051362]

If their didn't exist disciplines to critique technological rationality you would have had been logically aborted or not conceived as you and your genetics are clearly of a mentally inferior sort.

[Anonymous No.8051363]

>>8051362
>If their didn't
Stopped reading.

[Anonymous No.8051371]

>>8051362
no one listens to your "critiques of technological rationality" because theyre busy actually doing things

[Anonymous No.8051383]

>>8051332
It produces beautiful language that stops you in your tracks and sets you thinking. e.g.:

"As we shall see later, in applying this new, albeit always-already-encountered, methodology ('mythodology') to the productions, negative or otherwise, of post-disaccumulative textu(r)al spaces, one must be cautious never to lose sight of the transmetahermanantic - both historical AND inter-subjectival - desubstantiations to which the text-in-itself can act as resembling intermediant."

[Anonymous No.8051391]

>>8051371
Philosophical thought still dominates and permeates throughout society. Why do people do anything in the first place? What do you think orients them? Philosophical perspectives they have absorb.

[Anonymous No.8051399]

>>8051391
Psychology tells us how people behave. There is only one rational moral position - Utilitarianism. So all we have to do is use Psychology to keep people in line. What is the use of intellectual masturbation about "eternal recurrence" and "spooks?" It's worthless.

[Anonymous No.8051402]

>>8051371
>shit posting on 4chan
>out doing things
>projecting insecurities of uselessness this hard

read some descartes laddie

[Anonymous No.8051406]

>>8051399
>There is only one rational moral position - Utilitarianism

[Anonymous No.8051410]

>>8051406
>le dog meme
Proving my point about low IQ philosophers, "lad."

[Anonymous No.8051414]

>>8051399
i get the distinct impression you're talking out your ass

[Anonymous No.8051423]

>>8051410
You don't see how a statement like "There is only one rational moral position - Utilitarianism" is couched in concepts that came out of an interest in the field you're decrying?

[Anonymous No.8051425]

>>8051410
>There is only one rational moral position
>rational moral position
>rational moral
>rational moral

i bet you take pride in indentifying as a INTJ personality type, don't you?

[Anonymous No.8051426]

>>8051399
>There is only one rational moral position - Utilitarianism
english i see, mine sire *tips*

[Anonymous No.8051432]

>>8051426
>>8051425
>>8051423
>>8051414
Why don't you prove me wrong instead of shitposting?
>protip: you can't

[Anonymous No.8051436]

>>8051399
>philosophy is useless
>i will now propose a philosophical proposition that people have studied and debated over for 500 years
>the great philosophical led me to propose this in such simple terms
>philosophy is useless

[Anonymous No.8051437]

No one ever really made any real contribution to the world. We made automobiles to get to places faster but we made so many it resulted in traffic jams, polluting the air we breathe and making us lazy. Banal but true. But some people enjoy driving cars and some enjoy metatalking. Contributing is not an option

[Anonymous No.8051438]

>>8051402
i did read descartes
you probably didnt because hes actually a great example of why philsophers are so fucking stupid

[Anonymous No.8051439]

weak b8. sage.

[Anonymous No.8051449]

>>8051332
>It produces nothing of use and is ultimately a meaningless

i think there is some field of study that actually tries to determine what is meaningless and what is useful, can't think of it tho

[Anonymous No.8051452]

your penis is superfluous lol

[Anonymous No.8051462]

>>8051438
>>8051439
>>8051449
>>8051452
>Philosophical "arguments"
I think I'm going to abandon this thread. It's just convincing me of my original opinion.

[Anonymous No.8051470]

>>8051462
>im le abandoning le thread now
good cop out retardo

[Anonymous No.8051471]

>>8051462
k.

[Anonymous No.8051474]

>>8051332
>name one contribution
Science

[Anonymous No.8051476]

>>8051383

I don't understand how it can be difficult just to understand this.

[Anonymous No.8051488]

>>8051476
>difficult
Aww...

[Anonymous No.8051533]

>>8051332
>Name one real contribution Philosphers have made to the world.
wow, tough one, what a smart man you must be

Karl Popper advised scientists to try to falsify hypotheses, i.e., to search for and test those experiments that seem most doubtful.

Charles Sanders Peirce (the father of pragmatics) invented the pragmatic theory of truth, making it possible for the field of particle physics to move forward when sub atomic molecules didn't follow the rules set forth by Newton.

Aristotle gave the foundations of approximate and exact reasoning, laying down a scheme of inductive, abductive, deductive inference.

Oh, and Roger Bacon, an empiricist, a theologian, is considered the father of the scientific method.

but nah bud, i'm sure you're as smart as you think you are

[Anonymous No.8051538]

>actually replying

Goddamn it, /lit/.

[Anonymous No.8051550]

>its superfluous becuz i sed so
>anything that doesnt do thing i like is bad
Troll, fuck off.
>>8051371
>DOING THINGS IS GOOD BECUZ I SED SO
>>8051399
>There is only one rational moral position - Utilitarianism
Why is rationalism good?
Why is utility good?
>Psychology tells us how people behave.
No it doesn't.
>>8051432
>proof is good becuz i sed so