This philosopher can talk Sarte to me anytime. You?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUXXmHkI-Ug&ab_channel=OverthinkPodcast

No you are not Anus?

Agnes. wrote on Sep 1^st, 2022 at 8:47am:

No you are not Anus?

Shuddup Fungus.

AiA wrote on Sep 1^st, 2022 at 8:50am:

Agnes. wrote on Sep 1st, 2022 at 8:47am: No you are not Anus? Shuddup Fungus.

thats very comforting Anus

Nope... too "bookish" for my tastes.  Anyway, philosophy is largely bullshit,
only perpetuated for academic tenure.

And as for Sartre, I'd never trust a bloke who couldn't look me in the eye LOL.

AusGeoff wrote on Sep 1^st, 2022 at 9:01am:

Nope... too "bookish" for my tastes.  Anyway, philosophy is largely bullshit, only perpetuated for academic tenure. And as for Sartre, I'd never trust a bloke who couldn't look me in the eye LOL.

The ancient Romans didn't think so. Stoicism is hot now and has more adherents than ever in its long history.

AiA wrote on Sep 1^st, 2022 at 9:24am:

AusGeoff wrote on Sep 1st, 2022 at 9:01am: Nope... too "bookish" for my tastes.  Anyway, philosophy is largely bullshit, only perpetuated for academic tenure. And as for Sartre, I'd never trust a bloke who couldn't look me in the eye LOL. The ancient Romans didn't think so. Stoicism is hot now and has more adherents than ever in its long history.

I don't really care what people thought about things a couple of millennia ago.
They were poorly educated by 21st century standards, and a lot of their so-called
philosophy was just bullshit—but which has now become fashionable for academics
to spout from their ivory towers.

Philosophy is often wrong, or indistinguishable from being wrong.

"Except for a patina of twenty-first century modernity, in the form of logic and
language, philosophy is exactly the same now as it ever was; it has made no
progress whatsoever. We philosophers wrestle with the exact same problems
the Pre-Socratics wrestled with [so we must concede] philosophy’s inability to
solve any philosophical problem, ever."

—Eric Dietrich Ph.D.

AusGeoff wrote on Sep 1^st, 2022 at 9:01am:

Nope... too "bookish" for my tastes.

De gustibus non est disputandum


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Anyway, philosophy is largely bullshit, only perpetuated for academic tenure.

Needless to say, that itself is a philosophical statement.
Philosophy is NOT merely an academic field. It is that, too, but a lot more beyond that.
Everybody does it all the time. It is the comprehension of world views, one's own and that of others, current and past.

A lot of academic philosophy is indeed bs. But you cannot have a mental life without non-academic philosophy.



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And as for Sartre, I'd never trust a bloke who couldn't look me in the eye LOL.

Yes, he was a charlatan but very influential. His influence is still with us in much of pwogwessive, social justice warrior activism. He was the prototype of the 'philosophe engagé'. No demo, no petition was complete without him.




Here's another visually engaging lady philosopher.

https://youtu.be/9MGUWtTakQc

I find philosophy practical and useful. Religion, not so much.

Agnes. wrote on Sep 1^st, 2022 at 8:47am:

No you are not Anus?

First post on topic an insult - really ? necessary ?

If you have to ask if you are sexy?

You are not.

But that does not mean you never can be sexy.

It is all about self belief, human sexy sassafras.

Sass that frass.

AusGeoff wrote on Sep 1^st, 2022 at 9:57am:

AiA wrote on Sep 1st, 2022 at 9:24am: AusGeoff wrote on Sep 1st, 2022 at 9:01am: Nope... too "bookish" for my tastes.  Anyway, philosophy is largely bullshit, only perpetuated for academic tenure. And as for Sartre, I'd never trust a bloke who couldn't look me in the eye LOL. The ancient Romans didn't think so. Stoicism is hot now and has more adherents than ever in its long history. I don't really care what people thought about things a couple of millennia ago. They were poorly educated by 21st century standards, and a lot of their so-called philosophy was just bullshit—but which has now become fashionable for academics to spout from their ivory towers. Philosophy is often wrong, or indistinguishable from being wrong. "Except for a patina of twenty-first century modernity, in the form of logic and language, philosophy is exactly the same now as it ever was; it has made no progress whatsoever. We philosophers wrestle with the exact same problems the Pre-Socratics wrestled with [so we must concede] philosophy’s inability to solve any philosophical problem, ever." —Eric Dietrich Ph.D.

Philosophy is to be studied, not for the sake of any definite answers to its questions, since no definite answers can, as a rule, be known to be true, but rather for the sake of the questions themselves; because these questions enlarge our conception of what is possible, enrich our intellectual imagination, and diminish the dogmatic assurance which closes the mind against speculation; but above all because, through the greatness of the universe which philosophy contemplates, the mind also is rendered great, and becomes capable of that union with the universe which constitutes its highest good.

Bertrand Russell

AusGeoff wrote on Sep 1^st, 2022 at 9:01am:

Nope... too "bookish" for my tastes.  Anyway, philosophy is largely bullshit, only perpetuated for academic tenure. And as for Sartre, I'd never trust a bloke who couldn't look me in the eye LOL.

You sound like Lord Russell's grandparents and family. They also though that philosophy can be summed up in two questions (slightly more sophisticated and witty than your own clodhopper's way of putting it):

What is matter? Never Mind.
What is mind? No matter.


https://youtu.be/xL_sMXfzzyA

Fascinating.

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Sexy or Not?

Yes but she sounds better with the sound turned off.

Dnarever wrote on Sep 4^th, 2022 at 7:18pm:

Quote: Sexy or Not? Yes but she sounds better with the sound turned off.

Too many long words for you, ducky...

AiA wrote on Sep 1^st, 2022 at 8:13am:

This philosopher can talk Sarte to me anytime. You? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUXXmHkI-Ug&ab_channel=OverthinkPodcast

nah.

Not at all.

Frank wrote on Sep 4^th, 2022 at 7:32pm:

Dnarever wrote on Sep 4th, 2022 at 7:18pm: Quote: Sexy or Not? Yes but she sounds better with the sound turned off. Too many long words for you, ducky...

Did you read the question ?

She's too good for AiA.
Marla is more his type. ;D