No you are not Anus?

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

thats very comforting Anus

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


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

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

De gustibus non est disputandum

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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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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.

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


First post on topic an insult - really ? necessary ?

But that does not mean you never can be sexy.

It is all about self belief, human sexy sassafras.

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


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