/sci/ - Science & Math

[Anonymous No.1787799]

favourite philosopher and why?

Pic related, its sartre. Love the idea of choices

[Anonymous No.1787813]

This is not Sartre, this is Sagan. And he was an astronaut.

[Anonymous No.1787831]

favourite philosopher?
>philosoraptor
why?
>his intellect is baffling

[Anonymous No.1787839]

Rousseau

'cause he pretty much inspired Jacobins, socialists and fascists, causing lulz all around the globe.

[Anonymous No.1787843]

Camus. He was subtler in his philosophy then Sartre. And he helped the resistance during world war 2, while Sartre sat in lofty appertments talking about "sin" and tempered with the "Sturmabteilung" of the German philosophy (aka Heidegger). Camus was a goddamn hero, unlike Sartre.

Pic related.

[Anonymous No.1787845]

>>1787799

[Anonymous No.1787848]

>>1787839
Philosophers don't create. Philosophy is a joke. Its just observations.

Also science board - philosophy. Cool story bro

[Anonymous No.1787860]

>>1787848
>Philosophers don't create. Philosophy is a joke. Its just observations.
>Its just observations.
>observations
>/sci/ence

[Anonymous No.1787863]

Fromm. He dismissed all achievements of the modern society, saying our grandparents had a much truer life than we do.

[Anonymous No.1787874]

>>1787843

Seconded. Just finished reading The Stranger and I'm in the middle of The Plague. The Plague is written exceptionally well; far more than The Stranger. Perhaps that's because of the subject matter, but The Plague is pretty much a showcase of his literary skill. He's an amazing writer.

Good stuff all around.

[Anonymous No.1787876]

Wittgenstein without question. The Tractutus, Philosophical Investigations, and the posthumous On Certainty are the most amazing things I have ever read.

[Anonymous No.1787883]

>>1787860
Nah.

[Anonymous No.1787892]

>>1787876
(earlier Camus poster here)
The Tractatus is pure genius, especially because of it's neo-kantian influences.
I only read parts of the Philosophical Investigations and On Certainty, but I'm planning on reading them soon.

[Anonymous No.1787895]

>>1787892
PI seems to get a lot more talk time because it was basically written by Wittgenstein, while On Certainty was compiled by Anscombe and that other dude, but personally I think On Certainty is breathtaking. (Though it may be hard to grasp without having already read PI.)

In any case, enjoy. They make for great bathroom books because specific threads only last a few pages.

[dolan !Uq56cE.45s No.1787899]

>>1787892
Par contre, tu sais pas parler francais, comme un vrai warrior.

[Anonymous No.1787907]

>>1787895
Lol.
I plan to read them in a small group, so we can discuss different views. We did that with the Tractatus (and it took us 2 hours to get past page one because of all the initial disagreement), that's one of the reasons I see Wittgenstein as transcendental thinker instead of the analytic thinker he was made by the Wiener Kreis.

[Anonymous No.1787919]

>>1787860
Philosophy is the outdated predecessor to modern science. They ask questions but they don't conduct objective experiments.

[Anonymous No.1787957]

>>1787919
Science has banished large sections of philosophy to the trash heaps of history. But a sizable fraction of it is untouched by the scientific invasion. Indeed, the philosophy of science and some other fields of philosophy may be more important than before.

[Anonymous No.1787958]

>>1787919
Idiot.
Science is pure descriptive whereas philosophy is normative. Science can't reflect on itself else it isn't science anymore (instead it would be philosophy of science) etc etc.

Science is great and all, but everyone should really learn that the domain of science isn't "everything".

By the way: philosophy uses thought experiments and nowadays there is a field which is called applied philosophy (I have my doubts about that last one but whatever).

[Anonymous No.1788002]

>>1787919
>>1787958
Oh and continuing on my previous rant: the notion "objective" is something that has to be made clear. What does it mean? Oh, and who discusses such topic? Oh yeah, philosophers!

[Anonymous No.1788009]

Gibran Khalil Gibran
Donnu if it's a real philosopher, but he's at least an humanist:

"I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires. "

[Anonymous No.1788031]

Alan Watts

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BE5M8743a1s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXmz605GAnc

[Anonymous No.1788113]

Death is nothing to us; for that which has no sensation is nothing to us.

The magnitude of pleasure reaches its limit in the removal of all pain.

It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and honorably and justly, and it is impossible to live wisely and honorably and justly without living pleasantly.

No pleasure is a bad thing in itself, but the things which produce certain pleasures entail disturbances many times greater than the pleasures themselves.

If we had never been troubled by weather, death and pain, we should have had no need of natural science.

The wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure; but the wealth required by vain ideals extends to infinity.

Chance seldom interferes with the wise man; his greatest and highest interests have been, are, and will be, directed by reason throughout his whole life.

The just man is most free from disturbance, while the unjust is full of the utmost disturbance.

If you fight against all your sensations, you will have no standard to which to refer.

Of all the means which wisdom acquires to ensure happiness throughout the whole of life, by far the most important is friendship.

[Anonymous No.1788145]

>>1788113

Epicurus was the FUCKING SHIT.

Fuck Plato and Aristotle.

[Anonymous No.1788162]

I guess my favorite philosopher is Dr. William Lane Craig. He is a modern philosopher, so he forms his arguments based on modern information. There are no good Atheist philosophers in the modern era, that is why Atheists cite Kant and old (bad) arguments that have long since been refuted.

[Anonymous No.1788194]

He theorized that we should hide our kids wives and husbands... Because
They were raping everybody out here.

[Anonymous No.1788378]

^ This

[Anonymous No.1788396]

epicurus, democritus and marx