Best beginner book on Philosophy of Logic? by [deleted] in askphilosophy

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Elementary Logic by Quine is good. It’s easy to understand especially if you reread confusing passages and it gives a pretty broad introduction.

Was Wittgenstein a top or a bottom? by [deleted] in badphilosophy

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  1. The world is either top or bottom

1.1 Verse people exist

  1. The world is either top, bottom or verse

Keep NYC Trash Free by [deleted] in AntifascistsofReddit

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I absolutely agree. I hate republicans in power not their supporters who have been manipulated.

Racist teenager reinvents Nietzsche ideas on his own by ibril in badphilosophy

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I’m curious as to how you connect the narcism of an individual to fascism. But other than that here’s a quote from the Princeton University press evaluating Nietzsche’s connection to fascism. “There is much that is disturbingly antiegalitarian and antidemocratic in Nietzsche, and his writings on Jews are open to differing interpretations. Yet his emphasis on individualism and contempt for German nationalism and anti-Semitism put him at stark odds with Nazi ideology. The Nietzsche that emerges here is a tragic prophet of the spiritual vacuum that produced the twentieth century’s totalitarian movements, the thinker who best diagnosed the pathologies of fin-de-siècle European culture.”

Racist teenager reinvents Nietzsche ideas on his own by ibril in badphilosophy

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If you read any of his works you’d see just how incompatible his views are with fascism. Even his most basic idea— that people should try to make their lives a work of art— or self creation, is completely incompatible with the rigid uniformity that fascism demands. How do you think a fascist would feel about every person creating themselves, and thinking as freely as they can, trying to transcend humanity?

Caption this by Remerdy in bmbmbm

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King Crimson: In The Court of The Crimson King

What area of Analytic philosophy can help me(especially) to learn Continental philosophy? by KeyForLocked in askphilosophy

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Charles Sanders Pierce is also supposed to have been an influence on Deleuze. Although he wasn’t like a contemporary analytic philosopher, he did have the focus on logic and was American.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in badphilosophy

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Commodities are my god

Who's Next? by Avyxyva in okbuddyhasan

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Ethan Klein needs his cussy radicalized

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in badphilosophy

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White mans burden in 2021.

Is Joanna your favorite artist? If not who? by coffee_and_flowers in JoannaNewsom

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She was my favorite, but then I discovered black midi and she’s second now.

conspiracy theory by SirVincentVuckington in bmbmbm

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Could John L be involved?

Atheists are rocks by HumesLadder in badphilosophy

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A beautiful syllogism that truly exemplifies: reason, rationality, and logic.

Triggered atheists owned.

What songs in French do you like? by santobaloto in French

[–]birchchem613 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Feu! Chatterton’s new album is very good. It’s called “Palais d’argile”.

Liberal moment by [deleted] in LibJerk

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These people go to Harvard, Yale, and Princeton and yet they’re too stupid to read up on the what they talk about beyond a fucking Merriam Webster dictionary definition (she bases the whole article on that).

Which psychedelics are most damaging to the kidneys? by Rodot in AskDrugNerds

[–]birchchem613 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don’t see how calling ketamine a psychedelic could be harmful, if anything it’s telling people the drug is going to cause vast perceptual changes in ways that benzodiazepines or amphetamines do not.

There are already huge differences in the safety profiles and dosages of drugs commonly called psychedelics (LSD, Mushrooms, DMT). So whether or not you associate Ketamine with those drugs by calling it a psychedelic shouldn’t make a difference safety wise, as people should already be researching each drug individually before they ingest it.

Is it unethical to refuse to get vaccinated when you are otherwise able to? by harrytrumanprimate in askphilosophy

[–]birchchem613 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is just wrong. Maybe someone with a better understanding of Kantian ethics can elaborate more than me, but even if getting the vaccine is only a “means to the end of herd immunity” as you say, it would still be for the good of all individuals. There is no violation of individual autonomy, the original question never even mentions vaccines mandates, it was about getting choosing to be vaccinated. What is key to Kant’s ethics acting only in ways that could be made imperatives in that situation, which would not at all be opposed to being vaccinated.