"The greatest thinker of all times, in my opinion, is Aristotle. Everything, in his work, is defined with wonderful clarity and simplicity. Later, volumes were written to define the same things."
"In the last 200 years we haven't had a great thinker. My judgment is bold, since Kant is included. All the great thinkers of recent centuries from Kant to Benedetto Croce have only cultivated the garden."
Sam Harris is an ubermensch
>>7986001
Do all great writers study philosophy? It's so odd to think, for instance, that Holderlin studied Kant and took him as inspiration for his works. It just seems so antithetical, one's a poet and the other one a brilliant autistic bore.
>>7986017
Hölderlin is not a mere poet according to Heidegger.
This guy is pushing the white envelope down the pits of hell and replacing it with the Superior and Divine Black envelope. He's the GOAT. Deal with it white society.
>listening to a man with a fart/shit fetish
No thnks
>>7986074
are you on by chance at the same time as me or have you just been posting this for the last 3 days constantly hoping it will stick? mad boring
go away, /pol/
>>7986017
Well it's a common theme of contemporary (continental-ish, if you like the "definition") philosophy to see in poetry the more authentic expression of a worldview, there's a reason philosophical texts try to structure themselves narratively - think about anything Nietzsche wrote, or Hegel, or the more egregious contemporary examples like Bey or Deleuze or goddamn Negarestani
>>7986089
>because a guy likes farts and anal sex he does not deservd to be listened to.
What kind of logic is that? The only way in which you could justify such a moronic position is by assignating an intrinsic value to “not liking farts" as something good. Needless to say, a completely arbitrary choice, not based on evidence but on feels, or worse: malice.
>>7986089
Hasn't it been shown that people with weird fetishes tend to be smarter?
>>7987511
Well, most psychologic research tends to be bullshit, based more around creating statistical models based on correlations that about actually analyzing and isolating the causes of different behaviours. Neuropsychology though it's a whole different matter, far more interesting, although it is also hurted by some of the same idiocies that ruin psychological research.
Also there's the fact that most psychological experiments take place inside of certain cultural contexts that contaminate the results. For instance if you are investigating, say, why do men who like hairy women tend to be either depressive or schizophrenic the answer happens to be so simple it hurts that «scientists» (namely: most investigative psychologists), who are suposed to know what the fuck are they doing, just don't consider the obvious. Some answers are just damn simple, and would be better answerd by anthropologists, philosophers and even some artists than psychologists. In this specific thought experiment a quite accurate answer can be giving just by knowing a little about how social dynamics are enforced and reinforced: because we live in a society in which practicing love for hairy women is just «wrong», which, in our current cultural paradigm leads to the marginalization and discrimination of those with eccentric tastes, wether sexual or non-sexual some of the men who like hairy women are going to suffer, by facing incomprehension, and have heavy internal tensions and doubts about their identities. It's just a no brainer.
Scientist is not that who has social validation from an acadmic institution, but someone who thinks scientiffically.
>>7987511
I feel better about being a pedophile.
>>7987846
Pedophilia is *almost* always undesirable in a society because it tends to sexualize children's behaviour, ditracting them from fulfilling their creative potential for instance. That is, though, not always the case, and some african tribes practice pedophilia to preserve traditional values. My guess is that it has to do with submitting the wills of the children in order for them to have no ambitions other than serving the tribe or their parents. It is used, in that context, to promote loyalty and respect for your elders by literally owning a children's ass, through fear and coercion. The problem with pedophilia is that it almost always objectualizes children by taking advantage of their obvious biological weakness, sometimes even using them as private property.
>>7987899
That being said: i rationaly despise them, because of many different reasons (many of the economical and cultural) and encourage other people to do the same.
>>7987916
It was a joke. Children are disgusting to me, full of snot and poopy hands.
>>7987899
And i say the word almost, because there is always room open for all classes of extreme (some of the almost absurd) cases, such as: “you either have sex with this tre or your family will die because of reasons". You never know when that may happen (probably never, though, but can limited individual human intelligence determine it for certain?)
>>7987837
Congrats on knowing so little about psychology, the most common sense of all sciences, that it's embarrassing.
Let us know when you actually make it within throwing distance of any accredited research institution and learn a sliver of what goes on.
>>7987932
have sex with this tree?
>>7987933
Thank you for congratulating me! Explain me please, point for point, how i am wrong. I need to know so i can learn. Thank you!!! :-)
>>7987937
Yup...
>>7987938
It's just whenever someone makes such broad strokes about any topic, such as discrediting large parts of research in a single paragraph on an anonymous message board, it just indicates that the speaker has little to no knowledge of the subject and definitely isn't open to actually understanding it.
but keep telling yourself you do if it really helps
>>7987978
Ok... so no rational refutation? I am disappointed and sad... :-(
>>7987982
And at the same time not surprised. After all this is just an anonymous image board ;-)
>>7987978
By the way, it's not me the faggot saying that much of psychological research is bullshit, but science magazine. It took me time to find it but i finally did!!!! :-D
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/349/6251/aac4716
That article in specific it's about other subject about the bullshitness of *much of* psychological research though: irreproductibility of conditions, but i'm sure that just being curious will help you to get to where i'm coming from, just have patience and keep an open mind!!!! ;-)
>>7986017
Philosophy is the study of humankind, and the best pieces of literature are explorations of human nature. It's a given that if you wish to write a truly great book, you must be well versed in the way the human mind and society works, be it from experience and/or study.
>>7987511
Hope so. Otherwise my granny fetish is just creepy.
>>7988379
Grannies can be hot. They don't get pregnant, for instance, which is quite the aphrodisiac for some people.
>>7987511
your a dorable
Bump. Also keep it smart please.
>>7988739
I love your way of argumentation. Where did you learn it? From tibetan monks?
>>7987899
>>Pedophilia is *almost* always undesirable in a society
pedophilia is frowned upon today because women chose to spread their legs without popping children, so there are fewer children and they become valuable.
>>7989054
That's as dumb as saying that the reason why tulips are worth more than diamonds in today's markets is because they are less abundant than roses.
>>7989105
Well... technically a 14 year old person is already sexually mature. The question is not if they can handle sexual relationships with relative maturity and ease, but wether if we should obey our instincts and lust instead of higher intellectual motivations and facultIes.
>>7987899
>society
Society is evil, Anon.
>>7987899
>tfw your fetish is reprehensible from every angle
>>7989129
If it weren't for society you wouldn't have a computer, nor you would need language at all. You wouldn't be able to formulate the phrase «society is evil» to anyone. Saying that society is evil and participating in it is just hipocrisy.
>>7989145
>society is le good becuz 'these things I like'
>>7989156
I didn't say that. You are either twisting my words out of stupidity or for fun. If the second is the case i recommend you to watch british comedy instead, just because.
>>7989165
Yes you did, don't lie to me now.
>>7989156
>society isn't good because ???
Aristotle was right on everything except theleology.
>>7989169
What i said is that participating of society and saying that it is evil is hipocrisy, you oligophrenic squirrel. I didn't say that society is good because i like the goods that it offers.
Learn to read.
>>7989194
>using language
>breathing heavily contaminated air with CO2
>using a computer
>not forms of participating in a society
You are just confirming either heavy mental retardation or a lousy, boring sense of humour. Or both.
>>7989203
>ur retarded if u dont accept my revisionism and definitions
>>7989203
Don't feed the trolls.
>>7989209
That's the wisest advise i've had in a while.
>>7989209
Yes anon, anything I don't like is a troll! I also browse Reddit!
>>7989219
Awesome. Maybe you should go back there.
>>7987511
>tfw I have really tame taste in pornI had a hypno fetish when I was like 11 but that kinda died down.
best thing joyce ever wrote
