Who are your favourite philosophers?

Corpsey

Corpsey

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"Dasein", whatever that is...

I did an essay comparing Wittgenstein and Heidegger so perhaps I read some of both? I would bet that I read books about them, though.

That's the other thing about philosophers, not only are their books incredibly demanding to read but they're also usually 600 pages long.

You've got to be a philosophy monk to read them.
 
Corpsey

Corpsey

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luka said:
not important. it was the process of realising i could crack it
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There is that with philosophy, too, that moment when a chink of light breaks through the brick wall of incomprehension (that you opened) and you realise there's a whole world there if you can be bothered to explore it.

But I couldn't be. A great loss to Western philosophy, that.
 
luka

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it really was hugely important for me. i can do it, given the time and will and motivation. but cant be fucked
 
Mr. Tea

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Am I the only person here who's read Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions?

I bet I am.
 
luka

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craner read it and summarised it to the rest of us. theres against method too
 
dilbert1

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Mr. Tea said:
Am I the only person here who's read Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions?

I bet I am.
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nah, that's often required undergrad reading when reading foucault's archaeology of knowledge. agamben has a great essay about paradigms that links Kuhn and Foucault (the latter was ambivalent about the similarities with his notion of the 'episteme')
 
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Mr. Tea

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dilbert1 said:
nah, that's often required undergrad reading when reading foucault's archaeology of knowledge. agamben has a great essay about paradigms that links Kuhn and Foucault (the latter was ambivalent about the similarities with is notion of the 'episteme'
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Ok, don't take this the wrong way, but what I really meant was "Has anyone else with a post count at least in triple figures read Kuhn?"
 
entertainment

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I like Bergson cause it's not filled with jargon. Still not exactly easy reading, but you don't need the specialized vocabulary.
 
luka

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does anyone else get triggered by it? feel insecure about not being literate in it?
 
entertainment

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The thing I hate the most is when they go, "ah Nietszche is great, but you definitely need to read Kant first in order to understand it. He's also interesting but you'll probably need to start with the greeks"

Who the fuck has time for that.
 
entertainment

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They try to make you feel insecure about it yes. Like you're flailing blindly at the hidden truths known only to them.

Who can blame them, they waded through a hundred thousand pages of opague quibbling and got nothing but the diploma to show for it.
 
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long time ago i used to know a philosophy postgraduate who - after i expressed a fondness for Friedrich - loftily informed me that you couldn't understand Nietzsche without a/ reading all the classical literatures, Roman, Greek myth, philosophy, plays etc, and then B/ all the western philosophy leading up to Nietzsche. Maybe slight exaggeration in memory re. B, but it was certainly Kant and a whole bunch of other biggies and he was most adamant about the Greeks and Romans being essential. And my unvoiced thought was exactly the same as yours, Entertainment - FUCK THAT.
 
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