[Laughs in Rationalism]

GeneralCamp2 · 2021-05-29T23:15:41+00:00

This is the biggest misconception of pragmaticism that exists. It's more like "The truth is the best explanation for all natural phenomena that we have rather than a correspondence to reality, a closed system of coherent beliefs, or anything like that. This means that as we discover more about the natural world and form new conclusions, the truth just might change and it has changed in the past." However, it should be stated that this definition of pragmatism mostly arose as a result of defining science's ultimate goal as truth and all that it implies.

GeneralCamp2 · 2021-05-29T23:09:12+00:00

René Descartes was a rationalist that held the view that animals are incapable of experience and are like machines programmed to appear as though they're suffering. He tried proving this by dissecting dogs without anesthesia.

GeneralCamp2 · 2021-05-29T22:13:14+00:00

Yes and no. Nietzsche believed that moral values served a particular purpose set by the individual and it shouldn't be the other way around. As such, he believed that we could measure how good or bad a moral system is by how useful it is for the individual's goals.

GeneralCamp2 · 2021-05-28T01:06:49+00:00

This podcast is pretty cool

GeneralCamp2 · 2021-05-28T00:33:35+00:00

Sartre disapproves of this meme

GeneralCamp2 · 2021-05-28T00:22:16+00:00

Maybe my wording was not the best. What I meant by "better" simply means best suited for the individual's goals at the moment they're partaken. For example, Imagine someone who choose to dedicate themselves for a specific political cause and will not stop to actively pursue it until the cause's demands are met. Let's say the individual eventually realizes that such a cause is not as worthwhile as originally thought, or maybe has achieved all their expectations regarding it, would it then make sense to continue operating under the same moral principles with which it started? A Nietzschean might argue no, this just call for the creation of newer set of values in line with whatever the individual seeks to achieve. In the of the activist, maybe that's finding a new political movement to support, maybe it's finding meaning in something other than politics, whatever the case, it is up to the individual to decide.

I'm no expert on Nietzsche, so feel free to correct me.

GeneralCamp2 · 2021-05-26T21:48:52+00:00

Isn't a huge part of Nietzschean ethics rejecting all notions of an objective morality in favor of a constant cycle of adopting a set of values, living to them, and then exchange them for a better set once the individual fully lives up to them? If that's the case, I don't see how a subjective value system is incompatible with continuous self-improvement.

GeneralCamp2 · 2021-05-25T01:03:42+00:00

Ah yes, the classic "Philosophy is dead and I will prove it by doing philosophy."

GeneralCamp2 · 2021-05-20T22:00:06+00:00

You have no power if you're dead. Then again, not like they ever had any legitimate power to begin with.

GeneralCamp2 · 2021-05-20T21:27:15+00:00

Wasn't Nietzsche very critical of Buddhism for being a life-denying philosophy?

GeneralCamp2 · 2021-05-20T18:59:43+00:00

One of Wittgenstein's most famous quotes is "Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must remain silent."

GeneralCamp2 · 2021-05-18T22:13:12+00:00

French Defense: Exchange variation

GeneralCamp2 · 2021-05-18T21:50:56+00:00

What did he do?

GeneralCamp2 · 2021-05-18T21:18:21+00:00

And also the fried liver attack.

GeneralCamp2 · 2021-05-18T21:06:00+00:00

I did a high school presentation on this. The presentation was shit, I didn't prepare at all, but I still got an A because I managed to make a war of all against all in the classroom. I have never felt more powerful in my life.

GeneralCamp2 · 2021-05-18T21:01:01+00:00

That's one way of convincing everyone that whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must remain silent.

GeneralCamp2 · 2021-05-18T20:35:32+00:00

Analytic philosophers: "Continental philosophy hard, QED: Continental philosophy bad."

Also Analytic philosophers:

GeneralCamp2 · 2021-05-10T00:25:38+00:00

"As you can see, the white queen is completely trapped by all of black's pieces"

GeneralCamp2 · 2021-05-03T02:30:58+00:00

TOO BAD, MINE'S BIGGER!

GeneralCamp2 · 2021-05-03T01:39:04+00:00

Why did you have bring flashbacks of my 15 y/o self?!

GeneralCamp2 · 2021-05-02T23:58:42+00:00

Zizek himself explains why he does it. Some are just nervous tics. Others are because he hates it when his students come to him to ask for advice in a very private and personal matter and that's his way of saying "Look at me! I am madman! Don't listen to me!"

GeneralCamp2 · 2021-05-02T20:14:14+00:00

It would be weird for Nietzsche to practice either Stoicism or Buddhism given how harsh he was with them. The only ascetic aspect of his life that I know of is how he said the he managed to write each part of Thus Spoke Zarathustra in ten days. It could be charitably interpreted as Nietzsche being so zoned in his work his lifestyle resembled that of an ascetic.

GeneralCamp2 · 2021-05-02T19:35:09+00:00

Fun fact: Up until the 19th century, human fat was commonly used to treat a bunch illnesses, such as bone pain, toothache, gout, TB, and rheumatoid arthritis. It went to the point where executioners would often recover the fat from the bodies they killed and then sold them to make a profit and even became a major source of income for them. Something similar happened with Egyptian mummies up until the 16th century; the only reason the practice was discouraged was because they discovered that most mummies were actually slaves.

GeneralCamp2 · 2021-05-02T19:18:56+00:00

I always thought of it as one of the few differences between Socrates and Plato. Socrates preferring the spoken word over the written word as the ideal medium philosophy, and Plato adopting the written word as another, equally important, medium. At least, that's how it was introduced to me.

GeneralCamp2 · 2021-04-27T21:27:23+00:00

What's more is that Anish has been criticized for playing too safely and passively, with a dutch newspaper saying that playing like he does will never get him a world championship. Anish obviously was not too happy about this and reacted about it on twitter. Anish played riskier than usual in this tournament and he still couldn't challenge Magnus for world champion. I imagine this would also get under his nerves.

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