You're making him sound like Andy Kaufman.
Who are your favourite philosophers?
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constant escape
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Think someone wrote a book about that. Karl Popper, Wittgenstein, and their debates, etc. Forget the title of it.
Wittgenstein or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Poker.
linebaugh
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constant escape
winter withered, warm
Laruelle also wrote about Nietzsche and fascism, arguing that Nietzsche was becoming fascist, or at least courting it, to overcome it.
It would be interesting to read Nietzsche in hindsight of the incel. Yay? nay?
It would be interesting to read Nietzsche in hindsight of the incel. Yay? nay?
luka
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iconisation... i asked barty, he remembered https://www.dissensus.com/index.php?threads/14474/#post-363621
Galen Strawson because he was my philosophy of mind tutor and shaped my thinking about consciousness and panpsychism. He also let me off handing in an essay because I'd spent the morning reading fearing and loathing in las Vegas instead and he was fine with that.
Thomas Nagel too, similar approach to physics and limits of objectivity in relation to subjectivity
Nietzsche in aphorism mode
Thomas Nagel too, similar approach to physics and limits of objectivity in relation to subjectivity
Nietzsche in aphorism mode
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linebaugh
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Republic is fun, Plato has some wacky ideas, really flies against the consensus that the Greeks were all these enlightened democratic loving humanitarians. He argued that all music and art should be banned, and though the elites would know it to be a lie, we should feed the citizens the idea of a spiritually enforced hierarchy were people evolved from certain earth substances (dirt, silver. and gold?) and are organized in classes accordingly
Corpsey
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I feel like philosophy isn't something you can read casually. Partly because it's so dense and difficult and partly because it's always referring back to another dozen philosophers you haven't read.
The only philosophers who I've read more than a few paragraphs by are Ralph Waldo Emerson and Montaigne. I'm not even sure if either counts as a "proper" philosopher.
Actually that's not entirely true I forced myself to read some stuff by Hegel and Foucault and Derrida at university and that probably put me off philosophy for good. There's a continuum there of wilful tedium.
Nietzsche seems an incredibly exciting writer compared to those philosophers. I might have read some Kierkegaard too, I can't remember if I did or just read about him.
Back in those uni days I also had a short lived fascination with Heidegger. I wish I could remember why now. I think I had an inspirational teacher who briefly convinced me I was going to devote my life to phenomenology.
The only philosophers who I've read more than a few paragraphs by are Ralph Waldo Emerson and Montaigne. I'm not even sure if either counts as a "proper" philosopher.
Actually that's not entirely true I forced myself to read some stuff by Hegel and Foucault and Derrida at university and that probably put me off philosophy for good. There's a continuum there of wilful tedium.
Nietzsche seems an incredibly exciting writer compared to those philosophers. I might have read some Kierkegaard too, I can't remember if I did or just read about him.
Back in those uni days I also had a short lived fascination with Heidegger. I wish I could remember why now. I think I had an inspirational teacher who briefly convinced me I was going to devote my life to phenomenology.
linebaugh
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I had that interpretation of Foucault for awhile but I believe that's because all I had read was art criticism and I think he's just shit at that. Discipline and Punish has none of that pointless tedium, and any time it does wade a little into the practice of creating obtuse terms or abstract talk he's always quick with the cogent examples and review.
dilbert1
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I highly, highly recommend this lecture series for anyone at all interested in Nietzsche. You get a fantastic overview of the most key aspects in his thought, correctives re: gross simplifications and caricatures of his ideas, and plenty of references to particular passages. The lecturer's own philosophical work is also exceptional in my opinion.
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Nietzsche lecture by Prof. Raymond Geuss
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