Why is Austria-Hungary given so much shit?
You try controlling a country of germans, hungarians, czechs, italians, vlachs, slovenes, romanians, croatians, bosnians, serbs, slovaks, and poles for over a century in the age of Nationalism.
>>353003
A-H was pretty Cool. Dumping My Imperial Austria folder
Why did France win the Hundred Years' War?
>>352961
England simply didn't have the resources or army to permanently occupy a much larger country. Simple as that.
>>352961
The god was on their side as it was an unjust civil war against the crown by a satellite state.
>>352961
England couldn't handle 16 year old pussy
why exactly was this creeping looking guy considered the Nazi with the "iron heart". Why was he revered as being such a ferocious cruel man even among Nazis? Was Heydrich deserving of his title of being the most evil Nazi?
He was quite the lady's man apparently.
sic semper tyrannis
>>353362
They fucked his shit up pretty good. Then he died of sepsis from his clothes and parts of the car infecting his wound. Ugly as shit like most of the top Nazis. None of them fit that ideal Aryan race look.
Who's your favorite contemporary philosopher?
And no, political "philosophers", and atheist "philosophers" don't count.
Pfft
Nobody here reads philosophy, apparently.
It was René Girard, but he died a couple of weeks ago ;_;
>>352543
>political "philosophers", and atheist "philosophers" don't count
Top lel senpai.
http://philpapers.org/surveys/results.pl
Has there ever been a war out of moral obligation or for moral reasons, or does it all boil down to geopolitical interests?
>>352524
You're implying morality and geopolitics are mutually exclusive
>>352524
Yes and no.
to be honest pham everyone views wars differently
for example, one could say that the crusades were done to secure western economic influence in glabal trade. And another person could say it was for pure moral obligation to retrieve the holy lans
Did WW2 boost the economy? Why are wars today not beneficial anymore?
WW2 got America out of the depression, since it freed up room in the workforce (by sending men abroad) and created a huge demand for unskilled laborers (for the war industry).
Wars like the Iraq War are beneficial in the same way, but we also have to spend trillions on them.
>>352450
>Did WW2 boost the economy?
In America, but not too many other places.
> Why are wars today not beneficial anymore?
Wars are only beneficial to the economy when aggregate demand is way lower than what aggregate supply can provide. Suddenly you have a huge amount of new needs, people mobilized, weapons produced, transport arranged, etc.
If you have slack in your supply side, you can put it to good use with the new demand.
But "excess" aggregate supply doesn't usually happen economically.
>>352464
>Wars like the Iraq War are beneficial in the same way, but we also have to spend trillions on them.
Not really, they only help if your economy is in a slump.
Do Zen sects actively encourage denying teachings of the Buddha? Do they actually encourage insulting the Triple Gem for the sake of thinking you're imparting some teaching?
What do they feed people in Mahayana temples? Every time I discuss something with Zen followers, it seems like they always think they're being wise by discussing why they deny some parts of the teachings because "it sounds superstitious".
>>352349
Daily reminder that literally nothing of Siddhartha Gautama's original teachings exist outside of what the extant schools claim to have inherited and the oldest schools of Buddhism are all extinct.
>>352377
It's so simple then; every Buddhist ever is wrong, right?
Does this make sense at all?
My uni has courses in Ancient Greek and Latin,
Which one should I take, or should I just not take them?
>>352260
Latin is cool because it is the basis of the modern romance languages. Knowing it makes you sound smart, and can double as a way to get a grasp of the other romance languages - should you choose to learn any of them.
Ancient Greek sounds cool to me, but I cannot think of any practical uses of it anymore unless you are going to be an expert in that field. Or read very old Bibles
>>352386
I am leaning towards Greek solely for patrician points.
My uni also has courses in Sanskrit, but I have zero interest in that.
>>352260
desu Lad, I'd go for courses for modern languages, like russian, Chinese or Arab. If you're into history, or actually studying history that opens up more possibilities than just plain old greek or latin, unless you're an antiquity or middle ages person that is.
What is the difference between a baron, a king, a lord, a vassal, and knight? What do all these terms actually mean?
>>352217
Nothing a quick google search wouldn't tell you.
>>352217
Depends on who you talked to and what time period they lived in.
>>352217
>Baron
A baron is a low ranking member of the landed gentry
>Lord
Lord is the title of a baron.
>King
A king is a dude who controls vast swathes of land to the point he can be recognized king.
>Knight
Knights used to be the term for important members of the army, now it's a purely honorific term.
>Vassal
Subservient to another power or individual.
Why is our society so hedonistic and individualistic? Is it because of western philosophy, a side effect of wealth or is capitalism to blame?
>>352057
I believe that the natural state of human beings is that of hedonism and individualism until forced to change.
>>352069
I beg to differ. See, here in Europe a lot of people have started forming extremist movements, such as the growth of nationalistic parties, or even like here in Sweden, feminist parties. It is because a lot of people feel like hedonism doesn't do it anymore. That is also why I believe NEETs are often nazis and politically active - NOT because they are bitter, sad or alone - but because they just don't get any pleasure out of eating, sleeping or gaming (or whatever they enjoy doing) anymore. They need a purpose. If they cannot find a purpose in life, they will make one. Most people are driven by money, others, often those who already have enough money, will find something else to drive them. This is also why it's mainly upper-middle class girls who are feminists - the other girls don't care, because they strive to make money.
>>352069
I could agree with this.
Bonobos and Chimpanzees are our closest living relatives.
Both I would say are pretty damn hedonistic in different ways.
It makes sense that people would be similar. If there are no outside pressures for survival people would gravitate towards debauchery.
Why were the Irish reduced to Nigger tier by the English but not the Scots or Welsh?
>>352052
Because Ireland was the only part of the UK that the English couldn't cvck into accepting British identity.
So the English in frustration that Ireland didn't want to be part of their club made lots of memes about how they're savages.
>>352062
This. Britbongs still can't live with getting shut down even after all this time.
Ireland never became a centralized political entity like Scotland did.
Brian Boru was planning to consolidate his High Kingship which would've gone in that direction, but he was killed.
Moral values are determined by aesthetic values. Any action that is beautiful is morally good. The standard of beauty is decided on by true critics as outlined in David Hume's "Of the Standard of Taste."
Prove me wrong.
>>352012
David Hume's true critic is based on arbitrary man-made criteria.
Thus morals are based on man-made criteria?
>>352038
>David Hume's true critic is based on arbitrary man-made criteria.
The criteria are certainly man-made (as are all criteria since criteria are a human concept) but they are also certainly NOT arbitrary.
>>352012
>Moral values are determined by Aesthetic values
[citation needed]
>Any action that is beautiful is morally good
this relies on the above statement and thus [citation needed]
>The standard of beauty is decided on by true critics as outlined in "Of the Standard of Taste"
so in other words some "true critics" determined an objective standard of beauty because you said they did?
lmao I will never understand why people think their subjective opinions are universial facts
What alternate /his/tory would you want to live in /his/?
Mine is the world of Kaiserreich
>Germany wins WW1
>Francs falls to Syndicalism
>Britain falls to Syndicalims, English royalty, loyalists, and elites flee to Canada
>Germany takes all of Britain's colonies
>Austria retains its PU with Hungary but all other states are broken off as satellites
>Itlay is split between sydicalists and the Pope
>Russia is unstable and could fall to Bolsheviks
>the USA breaks into a three-way civil war between a MacArthur dictatorship of the United States of America, the Combined Syndicates of America under Jack Reed, and the facist American Union State under Huey Long
>Germany stands as a lone superpower with its satellites of Ukraine, Poland, the United Baltic Dutchy, Lithuania, and Flanders-Wallonia against a world of enemies
Nobody?
>>351966
Explain
The problem with Kaiserreich is the American Civil War. It's just too retarded of a concept.
that weird feel when romanian king from ww2 is still alive
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_I_of_Romania
>he got within reach of Hitler and didn't kill him
Objectively (OBJECTIVELY) world's greatest living monster.
>>352078
Hitler wasn't so bad; after all, he did kill Hitler.
>>352078
To Nuremberg!
Were gladiator fights scripted?
>>351685
sometimes
yes
>My history’s a little hazy Cassius, but aren’t the Barbarians supposed to lose the battle of Carthage?
>>351685
They were real, like wrestling—not staged, like American Football.
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