Philosophy

[memyselfandpie]

I'm reading Nietzsche's Human, all too human at the minute and it's sparking off so many thoughts. Who/what have you found that you think is worthy of investigation?

[Jairzinho]

Des'ree.

[cloggypop]

Christopher Biggins

[Red Phoenix]

Viz.

[Alan Sex]

My scrotum.

[Elite]

Heres my key philosophy, a freak like me needs infinite.

[Spy Bee]

Amor Fati

[Trumo]

Have you never heard of Kant?

[Jairzinho]

Have you never heard of Kant?

 

Fack off.

[Kant]

Have you never heard of Kant?

Never heard of the cunt.

[ZonkoVille77]

Anything that Liam Gallagher says.

[Lee909]

Aristotle, Aristotle was a bugger for the bottle

Hobbes was fond of his dram

And Rene Descartes was a drunken fart

"I drink, therefore I am"

[Strontium]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6nI1v7mwwA

[AngryOfTuebrook]

I've never been attracted to any of the "what's real and what is not" stuff.  (It doesn't matter outside the Gates of Eden.)  But I quite like the idea - if I had enough time - to navel-gaze over the origins, meaning and purpose of morality.

 

Justice by Michael Sandel is a handy introduction to various ways of thinking about the subject.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justice:_What%27s_the_Right_Thing_to_Do%3F

[TheHowieLama]

..is the talk on a cereal box.

[General Dryness]

Peter Ustinov.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

Give a Philosophy student a glass of limeade

And he will ask "Is this a glass of limeade?

And if so, why is it a glass of limeade?"

And after a while

He'll die of thirst

[Rotpeter]

I'm reading Nietzsche's Human, all too human at the minute and it's sparking off so many thoughts. Who/what have you found that you think is worthy of investigation?

Sartre, Foucault, Wittgenstein. Of those only Wittgenstein is a typical philosopher.  The others are very readable.  None are as good as Nietzsche though. 

 

You should read, On the Genealogy of Morals next.  It covers some of the same stuff but in narrative rather than aphoristic style.  I found it helped seeing the same ideas from a different perspective, and it gives you an insight into some of his other stuff you may have missed otherwise.  

[mattyq]

Can't beat a bit of Plato and The Republic

The foundation of Western Civilization 

What;s not to like?

[Hades]

Like Freud, Nietzsche is a must read if you learn from the questions he asks and reject all the conclusions. 

[Rotpeter]

Like Freud, Nietzsche is a must read if you learn from the questions he asks and reject all the conclusions.

God is Alive?  For you have resurrected him?

 

Reject? The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently?

 

Reject? The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

 

I had you pegged as a dancing star.

[Hades]

God is Alive?  For you have resurrected him?

 

Reject? The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently?

 

Reject? The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

 

I had you pegged as a dancing star.

 

That stuff was trite to me because I was always a maverick. Marx has been far more influential for me of late. 

[Rotpeter]

That stuff was trite to me because I was always a maverick. Marx has been far more influential for me of late.

Yeah, the polemic style grates with some but he's the archetypal maverick, his philosophical project was to make everyone a maverick. Pre-conceptions absorbed from people who've never read him don't help.

 

Try and re-read Thus Spake Zarathustra, with an open-mind, it's an anthem to maverickism. Man is a thing that shall be overcome

[Tony Moanero]

Fleshy ball sack.

[Trumo]

Try and re-read Thus Spake Zarathustra, with an open-mind, it's an anthem to maverickism. Man is a thing that shall be overcome

 

And have the music on in the background while strutting around like Ric Flair. Woooooooooooooooo!