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itt we post meme philosophers
i'll start
How?
>>505075
Candide is hilarious
muh acre and cow
who is history's most successful military commander?
Subutai or Alexander
Probably Alexander.
>>504576
Hannibal. Won every battle and lost only one.
Half of the last thread was complaining about my shitty OP image, so let's try again. We clarify what we mean by "God" when we ask the casual question "Do you believe in God?" By the end, it should not be a meaningless question.
>List ALL attributes
>List all relevant faiths
>Clarify comprehensibility and whether it's able to be defined
Go.
>>503135
God is a teapot in orbit around the sun, somewhere between Mercury and Venus.
>attempting to clarify a transcendental concept.
>>503309
10 internets to you good sir!
To those who studied ancient history at university (whether just a degree, masters, PHD etc.): what was your capstone essay topic, or to those who pursued higher research, your major thesis topic(s)?
Or to those currently studying, what do you think your topic will be?
I did mine on the role of pets in the Roman household (focused primarily on Empire).
I don't study history but that's interesting, care to share some of your findings?
I'm not finished with a degree, but the last research project I did was a 250 word essay on the nature of emancipation in Brazil and the United States, and why the less democratic government was able to come to a more peaceful resolution.
>>503085
Wasn't ancient history, but I did one on ratios of pilots and aircrew being trained vis a vis airframe production and why all the major powers "overproduced" planes that they didn't have people to actually fly.
>>503015
I just have to point out that man's utterly wiry/silky beard. Damn.
Is any type of anarcho society possible?
Have there been any anarcho societies in history we can look at?
>>500568
you can look at modern day somalia
anarchist spain and the ukrainian free territory
this >>500571
and the kibbutz movement in israel
UDA or IRA?
>Religion
>>499620
PUP - marxist loyalists for the win. also: david ervine was a sound bloke.
>>499638
>Marxist loyalists
What a monstrosity
Is there a scenario in which nativeamericans(incas/mayas/etc)
Could have won against european people?
Or even in the best of circumstances(maybe if they were more developed, etc), viruses and illness would have always played a determining factor in conquist?
Highly doubt the europeans would have had the logistics to beat them if they didn't all betray eachother and help the invaders. If they had allied and fought them together, no chance we would have succeeded that early.
its called Bolivia
>>498331
>we
>Age
>Top Three Roman Emperors
>Favorite Roman General or Consul
>Are you a virgin?
19
1. Constantine
2. Trajan
3. Septimius Severus
Sulla
Yes
22
1. caligula
2. nero
3. hadrian
Sulla
No
18
Julian
Julian
Julian
20
1. Julius Caesar
2. Heraclitus
3. Claudius
No
When and why did America stop having public intellectuals?
It used to be that the American public debate was between intellectuals who could talk in depth about political and philosophical issues, the way debate still works in France today. Instead it has become nothing but comedians parroting one-liners that were written for them for the purpose of entertainment.
It's not like public intellectualism was ever actually good. People parrot the opinions of those presented to them as experts. France has less right to lecture the Anglosphere about politics and philosophy than the average Francophone thinks.
>>496952
mass culture, late capitalism, McLuhan
>public debate was between intellectuals who could talk in depth about political and philosophical issues, the way debate still works in France today.
As a citizen of the french republic I have to say this : lol.
The USSR in 1989 had a population of 293 million. Now, Russia has a population of 143 million.
Why?
>>494089
You're fucking dumb
>>494089
They got eaten by a grasshopper called Kevin.
>>494089
look at a map of the USSR, then look at a map of Russia
Japanese "comfort women"
Were they real, or is it all just typical Korean lies and exaggeration?
>>493717
Definitely true.
What's even worse was the equivalent in Russia for the German army. An estimated million babies were born by German soldiers and Russian women.
People always talk about how horrible the Russian soldiers raping German girls was, which it was, but people don't see the Eastern front.
real and exaggerated.
Taiwanese
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Q06nTrB21tw
Chinese
https://youtube.com/watch?v=MxsJJzGnaRM
Also Indonesia and Dutch
Why do guys in medieval style paintings always look chill or high or on something?
>>507973
everyone drank beer instead of water
also grain fields were full of wild plants, ergot and psychedelic mushrooms which would get swept up in the mix by peasants who had to labor all day dawn to dusk during the harvest season and didn't have the time or energy to pick out just the healthy wheat/barley/oats/rye
>>508102
What
>>508102
Do you really imply everyone was high and drunk during medieval ages?
Do we even have a democracy?
The Greece saw the aristocracy, the rule of an elite, as a positive contrast to the democracy, because they saw democracy as nothing more than the rule of a mindless mob.
Later on the meaning changed and democracy was viewed upon as the rule of the people. In the positive meaning of having everyone share a piece of the political power cake, as opposed to a minority hoarding all the power.
But what do we have today? Is it a democracy or is that just what we would like to believe? And are we supposed to view it as worth keeping...
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>>507818
>The Greece saw the aristocracy, the rule of an elite, as a positive contrast to the democracy, because they saw democracy as nothing more than the rule of a mindless mob.
t. Greek aristocracy
>The Greece saw the aristocracy, the rule of an elite, as a positive contrast to the democracy, because they saw democracy as nothing more than the rule of a mindless mob.
t. Critias
Should I read War And Peace? Would you recommend it? I've read that the author doesn't consider it a "novel", since it becomes a philosophical discussion later in the book.
What do you think /his/? Have you read it?
It's excellent. Read the Maudes Translation published by Everyman.
>>507543
Any reason for reading that translation? Is it easier to read? I was thinking about just reading the version up on gutenburg.org.
>>507555
It's a good translation -- the one Tolstoy approved personally. You can find it online easily. The edition doesn't matter too much, but Everyman are great quality.
