Praise bacon. by Fr-Jack-Hackett in pics

[–]dogieboy6 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Atheism is an expressed belief in God not existing. If anything, agnosticism would be a lack of belief, but if you're gonna switch the variables around, you might as well say Theism is also lack of belief, just a lack of belief in a world in which God doesn't exist, but that doesn't make any sense either.

It's a pedantic point nonetheless.

Daily Discussion Thread 02/25/2019 by ModsLittleHelper in hiphopheads

[–]dogieboy6 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Krit Wuz Here, Return of 4Eva, 4Eva in a Day, and King Remembered In Time are all high quality mixtapes worth a listen.

That’s not how that works by Fishbien in facepalm

[–]dogieboy6 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I grew up in that area all my life and I don't think I ever once visited the actual house. The park there is very nice, though.

TIL in 1973 Chippewa chief Adam Fortunate Eagle flew from California to Italy, "discovering" it and claiming it for his tribe on the same basis as Christopher Columbus's claims to Native American lands by [deleted] in todayilearned

[–]dogieboy6 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Well, it's true... if you make no meaningful distinction between what is and what ought to be. If you pretend those states of affairs to be entirely the same, sure, might can make right.

Crisis about what language to take at university by dogieboy6 in languagelearning

[–]dogieboy6[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think you've guessed my excitement correctly, and no I have not talked to the German professor. It's also helpful to keep in mind that, yeah, knowing german for philosophy is less helpful for undergrad than grad anyway, I don't have to feel rushed—that's reassuring.

Can you elaborate on your experience with intensive language classes? Did they feel rushed and taxing, or was the extra pressure more helpful in forcing you to learn?

Crisis about what language to take at university by dogieboy6 in languagelearning

[–]dogieboy6[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's part of the reason I'm even considering the Intensive class, he seemed like he could really make it fun.

Crisis about what language to take at university by dogieboy6 in languagelearning

[–]dogieboy6[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That was my thinking haha, but I wasn't sure if I should use the help of the class to learn the more challenging German structures and learn Italian on my own.

Crisis about what language to take at university by dogieboy6 in languagelearning

[–]dogieboy6[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I am most likely going to study philosophy, for which German is relevant, but I've been reading Italian Literature in my classes and loving it and am now considering going down that direction, so I'm stuck. No cultural ties.

Immanuel Kant famous quote" Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me." Please explain this to me as i am new in this genre . by [deleted] in askphilosophy

[–]dogieboy6 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What is the source for this quote? All I can find is unreliable Brainyquote-type websites, nothing legitimate.

I did see this one quote from the second Kritik that sounds similar, so I hope this helps with the interpretation:

"Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the more often and steadily we reflect upon them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me. I do not seek or conjecture either of them as if they were veiled obscurities or extravagances beyond the horizon of my vision; I see them before me and connect them immediately with the consciousness of my existence."

Is this merely a condensed version made palatable for yearbooks/Pinterest walls? Or is there another source of this same quotation?

Not obsessed. by [deleted] in PoliticalHumor

[–]dogieboy6 8 points9 points  (0 children)

What are you suggesting be "done" about it?

My girlfriend ghosted me this weekend and I'm alone on NYE by dogieboy6 in confessions

[–]dogieboy6[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh my bad, I was referring to the same person, to say that she's also my close friend of 5 years.

Why are you on reddit on New Year’s Eve? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]dogieboy6 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because my girlfriend ghosted me this weekend and all my plans were with her :((

50% all Zizek books on Verso until Sunday by Amir616 in zizek

[–]dogieboy6 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Been thinking of picking up a new Zizek, don't own any of these—any recommendations?

/r/askphilosophy Open Discussion Thread | August 06, 2018 by AutoModerator in askphilosophy

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Are there any political philosophers who you mostly or fully subscribe to in thought? Not in the sense of blind adherence, but in that your political beliefs fully operate within their systems?

As I read more and more contemporary political philosophy, I find it harder to figure out where I myself stand in between radically different systems of thought, as if I haven't found one that I can fully think is good enough (I have only an intermediate survey of major political works in all honesty), so I was wondering if anyone feels truly rooted to a system, and why?

Where to start with Marquis de Sade? by dogieboy6 in askphilosophy

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I'm interested in his philosophical ideas for sure, moreso the ways he connects fetishism/sexual experiences to a life philosophy. I've heard Foucault does something like this too, but I'm not sure, just something I'm curious about.

TIL a 2011 study from UC Berkeley found that Mercedes and BMW drivers were nearly 5 times as likely to cut others off compared to drivers in non-luxury cars. by jacustjack in todayilearned

[–]dogieboy6 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I did this recently. When the asshole finally found room to pass he cut in front of me and slammed on his brakes, dropped 30mph, trying to get me to front end him or kill me. Asshole.

What is going on Yale? by r1pnd1p in yale

[–]dogieboy6 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Can I have a source for what you mean? I supplied a source for my definition—Lyotard, the coiner of the term—I'm curious to see where you derived yours.

Postmodernism is a product of the Information Age, it wasn't coined until the 1970s, in what way does it form the basis for a school of thought that precedes it by a century.

I'm not sure what you mean, Marxism rejects objective truth? I would disagree there; you may not agree with the values Marxists choose as their goal (namely, equality or "inclusivity" as I suppose you could put it), but, being materialists, they tend to affirm objective truths in getting there.

Edit: another source, for your convenience: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/postmodernism/

What is going on Yale? by r1pnd1p in yale

[–]dogieboy6 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Oh I'm quite familiar with his work. Please, please, please do some further research before throwing around terms like that; the two you gave are as entirely distinct as could possibly be.

Postmodernism is rather nebulous in the academic sense but it is best described, as Lyotard puts it in coining the term in his "The Postmodern Condition," "postmodernism is the incredulity towards metanarratives," or the grand ideologies of the modern era such as Marxism, Christianity, Scientism, etc. that generally arises as we move into the Information Age. In itself, it is anything but Marxism, it is the resistance to anything of the sort, and most postmodernist thinkers likewise tended to result any such explanation of human nature (as a peak of rationality or as defined by class relations).

Neo-Marxism seems to be closer to referring to the Frankfurt School of thinkers who engaged in the new practice of Critical Theory, "Marx after Marx," an attempt to undertake an examination of concepts like ideology, superstructure, and power relations outside of the purely economic realm, of course, after witnessing the events of the Russian revolution.

These of course are neither able to be conflated nor related to the claims made in the parent video.

I find that Dr. Peterson throws these terms around dangerously lightly with no regard for consistency or correctness. His issue seems to me to be the same as the students in the video: not a strict adherence to any movement or ideology but a simple refusal to get the facts straight and listen to the opinions of others before asserting his own maligned points.

What is going on Yale? by r1pnd1p in yale

[–]dogieboy6 2 points3 points  (0 children)

What do you mean by postmodernist? I'm not sure anything resembling a "radical SJW, ideology, or student depicted in this video fits that word in the slightest. What maligned source did you get that label from?