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Math guys of /sci/, what are your favorite philosophy books?

>> No.6951682

>inb4 euclid elements

cliche

>> No.6951691

The Bible

>> No.6951696

>>6951691
It's shit-tier philosophy though.

>> No.6951702

>>6951655
I'm reading The Myth of Sisyphus by Camus now, and I'm liking it. I'm planning on reading The Rebel and some Kierkegaard afterwards. I'm open to suggestions, though.

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>> No.6952266

>>6952264
lol

>> No.6952348

>>6951655

City of God
Summa Theologica

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>> No.6952355

>>6951655
"Flatland"

>> No.6952362

>>6952348
>Aquinas

>>6952353
>"The trouble with physics"
Also known by it's working title:
>"NO ONE IS LOOKING AT MY THEORY, MY THEORY IS BETTER"
>Chomsky

I knew /sci/ was full of plebs but did you two have to confirm my suspicions so brutally?

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>>6952362
What's wrong with Aquinas?

>> No.6952369

>>6952364
Christian apologetics is to philosophy as creationism is to science.

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>>6952369
>>>/reddit/atheism is that way

>> No.6952375

>>6952372
>Le reddit is that way, lol.

But seriously apologetics are just terrible, don't defend them it makes you look retarded.

>> No.6952376

>>6952372
Cool memes, christfag! I can tell you've really thought about this a lot.

>> No.6952379

>>6952375
Summa Theologica isn't apologetics, that would be Summa contra Gentiles.

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>>6952372

>> No.6952383

>>6952375
Theology is just apologetics for people who already believe.

>> No.6952386

>>6952364
>hey guys, under the assumption that god exists I can derive the conclusion that god exists
>am I smrat yet?

Aquinas is shit tier philosophy.

>> No.6952397

>>6952386
>believing that the mammalian egg was formed in the uterus as a result of the activation of menstrual blood by male semen. “Sex” he wrote “is determined by the male principle already contained in the semen. If this is not strong enough, then the opposite must necessarily come into existence, and the opposite of man is woman.”
>"just as the downward movement of a mass of lead or gold or of any other body endowed with weight is quicker in proportion to its size"
>am I smrat yet?

Aristotle is shit tier philosophy

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All books from this guy. His book about free will is awesome but I like "The Moral Landscape" too. It's amazing how he employs scientific knowledge to solve ancient philosophical problems.

>> No.6952428

>>6952416
just why does 4chan teach me to hate this guy and all his ideas?

please respond.

>> No.6952430

>>6952428
Because he's a tool.

>> No.6952432

>>6952428
>why does 4chan teach me to hate this guy and all his ideas?

Because 4chan is counterculture, if tomorrow hating sam harris starts to become mainstream 4chan would start to suck his dick, i fucking guarantee you

>> No.6952433

>>6952428
Because 4chan (and /lit/ in particular) is full of pseudo-intellectual fedora neckbeards who think they're deep for talking about "philosophical" topics like free will or morality with only a kindergarten level understanding of the subjects. They cannot stand the thought that Sam Harris solved these issues by applying science.

>> No.6952435

>>6951655
NJWildberger's divine calculus, very interesting view about mathematical realism

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Feynman

>> No.6952443

>>6952438
0.00000001%

>> No.6952445

>>6952432
>Because 4chan is counterculture

can we have a discussion about this? It's always kinda bugged me. I think Katawa Shoujo is perhaps the example that experienced this the fastest. Before it's release and a handful of weeks after it, it was welcomed on /a/, and praised. However, because /v/ quickly took it up, it became extremely hated on /a/. An entire board sung its praises then ostracized it in probably less than a month.

Funnily, /v/ did the same shortly after as it migrated to /vg/.

There are countless other examples, Atheism being an important one.

What causes this? Is it that people are actually changing their opinions and point of view at the whim of popularity, or is it that somehow those who dislike or disagree with something popoular on 4chan are silent until it becomes too popular?