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Why do so many philosophers seem to live completely ordinary lives, not living their lives in any radical sense after the philosophy they developed?
The only true exceptions I can think of is perhaps Diogenes the Cynic, and Simone du Beauvoir.
>>1233192
Most philosophers are just bourgeois with too much time on their hands. People such as Voltaire or Karl Marx are examples of this.
>>1233192
I've read somewhere that philosophers of ethics agree mostly that being vegetarian is the ethical thing to do. However they aren't any more likely to be one.
I can't remember if there was more to that.
>>1233192
"I'm a philosopher" sounds a lot more attractive to chicks than "I'm a bored pretentious faggot who doesn't have a real job".
Daily reminder that India reked the Poortuguese
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annexation_of_Portuguese_India
A newly-unified state with hundreds of millions of citizens manages to snatch away a poorly-defended conclave controlled by a failing colonial empire?
No way!
Did Portugal have the shittiest empire ever?
Oh
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Cochin_(1504)
Any examples of successful libertarian socialist societies?
That have lasted for a decent period of time.
Socialism needs a strong goverment. Libertarian socialists are just morons
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPl_Y3Qdb7Y
the point isn't really to create "societies" though but to find out the best ways possible to advance human freedom and put them into practice
anarchists are criticised for not being realistic, but this is a meme argument that relies on the is/ought fallacy and the real pragmatism comes into the implementation of what's right
if something's right, it being harder to ahieve should make us more determined
>>1233123
>libertarian
>socialist
Pick one
Why were the filthy rebel scum given pardons and amenesty after they tried to destroy the Union and killed 620,000 americans. A bunch of rich men use the poor as canon fodder because a democratic election wouldnt have let them expand the industry that lined their pockets with human atrocities and they get a slap on the wrist? We should have at least gotten a Nuremberg tier purge of the upper echelons.
Wew lad.
Lincoln was elected without a single southern vote.
Illinois-tier politics should stay in the state of Illinois.
>>1233098
>Let's kill off a whole bunch of people in the land that we have just taken back
>It won't cause outrage at all
>What's reconciliation?
>>1233131
>Not punishing captial crimes because people would get upset
What happens here?
>>1233066
Vandals.
>>1233066
Human sacrifice and trade.
>>1233066
Literally nothing wrong.
>“We knew that that was not something God would want us to do…Who are we to say that that person is not worthy to live?”
>Hannah and Michael were able to enjoy 47 precious hours with their son before he passed into the presence of his heavenly father.
Why are people so fucking cruel /his/? It seems even the most colossal amounts of cruelty can pass under the guise of religious morality.
I'm not a fedora, and I believe it's cool to have religious freedom, but man, sometimes I want to...
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>>1233057
And just for retards who don't get it, because there's always plenty of those: They let their baby be born and die slowly and painfully from brain spasms for 47 hours instead of aborting him, so they could feel good about themselves.
>>1233057
link
http://www.lifenews.com/2015/04/22/doctor-told-them-to-starve-their-baby-starve-to-death-because-hed-die-shortly-after-birth/
>>1233057
This happened more than 25 years ago, right? This is /his/tory, right? This isn't >>>/pol/ or >>>/x/, right? Are you lost or is this a special type of bait? "I will post a story where it doesn't belong because I am butthurt about those lifers and I want all of /his/ to feel butthurt with me."
When is the academic community going to accept the fact that the Pharaohs of the Fourth Dynasty did not build the Great Pyramids?
H
U
>>1233032
Well golly. We would love to see YOUR research. Do you have a valid argument or is this some SHITPOST bait that belongs in >>>/x/?
>Baldwin IV was educated by the historian William of Tyre (later Archbishop of Tyre and Chancellor of the kingdom), who made a disturbing discovery about the prince: he and his friends were playing one day, attempting to injure each other by driving their fingernails into each other's arms, but Baldwin felt no pain
What the fuck?
Was all medieval era entertainment this stupid?
>>1232999
All young boys' entertainment is that stupid. You find seven and eight year old boys still trying to do things like this.
Sounds more like kids being kids than any sort of medieval viciousness.
I didn't really get up to stupid shit as a kid but I know plenty of people who did.
We don't know enough about real medieval entertainment, but chances are that kids really just played with each other, adults drank and talked about stuff.
Nobility entertainment was where you saw dudes recite poems to music in the court, and they'd just sit there for hour listening to some guy talk about Siegfried or Roland and how many dudes they could kill. In the High Middle Ages Women were becoming a bit more influential, and you had the somewhat legendary court of Eleanor of Aquitaine where now you find the Arthurian Romances being created, where they focus...
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What's the biggest /his/ fail you've noticed/heard of in video games that were made in the last 10 years?
>>1232767
Civ 5 didn't include "Minoan" or "Hittite" civs, but did include "Zulu", "Netherlands" and some formal disparity between "Iroquois" and "Sioux" because "reasons", even though those representations and differentiations had relative jack dick to do with the world's societal development. They were only a sycophantic inclusion for a lame attempt at political correctness, as was including more than one female leader.
Homefront, bigest lolz in Murica stories.
>>1232808
>those representations and differentiations had relative jack dick to do with the world's societal development.
did you ever stop to think that is not the basis on why civs are included?
>United
>Soviet
>Socialist
>Republics
Pic related
Tell me why I'm 100% correct about this. I am implying that the implications of the words used to describe the "Soviet Union"are incorrect.
>Republics
You think the country constituted some form of monarchy?
>>1232760
>Monarchy
>Rule of one
Yes it did.
>>1232738
>United
Yes
>Soviet
Initially, but later the Soviets were basically vestigial.
>Socialist
More or less, not that socialist but socialist no less.
>Republics
Yes, defo republics.
Defend this man's decision to bomb hundreds of thousands of civilians.
>>1232376
end a war with TWO giant atomic bombs to ensure that people will be too horrified to ever actually use nuclear weapons
bigger question; will our nukes even work if we need them?
>>1232376
The US was already engaging in a prolonged bombing run of the japanese islands. he just cut it down from a couple of weeks to one week.
>>1232396
Yes because they don't only shoot from silos. Subs, Naval ships, and planes all can shoot them
How does anyone argue that qualia are reducible to what we conventionally think of as physical brain states? It just doesn't follow.
Do you think that cranes are incapable of explaining the origin of qualia and that a skyhook is necessary?
Do you think that qualia are changeable over time due to evolution?
>>1232138
why not? I haven't seen any good arguments for qualia not being reducible to the physical brain
>>1232161
How about the argument that it doesn't follow? You can't describe the color red in terms of conventional bio-chemistry you can only describe corollary elements like wave lengths of light and optical nerves and neurons. How does the phenomenonal experience we call 'red' just magically pop-out of such a system regardless of how compact and complex you make it?
Is man an animal? Some religions would seem to imply otherwise.
The picture is not quite related
Do you think humans just magic'd into existence with no biological ancestors?
>>1232076
Some religions seem to imply that.
>>1232076
obviously our biological ancestor is Adam
what went wrong?
>>1231958
Ĝi ne gajnis teron
>>1231958
It sounds too much like Mexican.
Has any flag with green on it ever been successful?
How did Chess become THE intellectual game, at least in the western world? It often seems to be the first thing that comes to mind in the popular consciousness if you want to portray someone as either a nerd or an intellectual competitive person; they'll inevitably be good chessplayers.
>>1231735
Lenin.
He believed that it was "gymnastics for the brain", based on the same outdated ideas that I have learned Latin in school.
They believed that there is some kind of "universal intelligence" (don't know how to say this in English, tho) and that this can be trained by learning Latin grammar or playing chess, but modern psychologists all have shown that if you teach a child how to play chess the child will simply become good at chess.
And if you learn how to speak latin you'll...
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>>1231770
this.
blame the commies.
before them chess was just some obscure board game from India that only poo-in-the-loos played.
