Is he the most upvoted philosopher ever?
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>>2480633
t. butthurt redditard
Is the philosopher with the most ever (you)s?
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Quality thread.
I grew up in Northern Thrace, it's hot as shit, we wuz Spartacus etc.
Where's Thessaly then? To the immediate Southwest?
Daily reminder the Wehrmacht was clean.
>>2480479
Daily reminder that virtually every historian who has done research on this topic has concluded that the Wehrmacht commited tons of war crimes
Fuck off revisionist wehraboo faggot
Daily reminder that Dresden deserved it.
>>2480479
>a military force that's seen action
>clean
Pick one.
Grow up and realize that nobody was clean.
How do we know what ancient languages (Latin) sounded like if no one speaks them anymore?
>>2480475
people still speak latin
>>2480475
In the case of languages which are not spoken, notwithstanding latin as >>2480487 has observed, I remember that archeolinguists/whatever the term is use poetry to discover the amount of syllables of the word and which is accented.
This technique does not perfectly replicate the language spoken at the time but it would be comprehensible to a speaker of it.
We don't but we can make educated guesses based on many things.
So, I've been thinking lately, isn't it sad we were born in this day and age? Not a "muh generation" shit, but much rather a "muh history" one. Just imagine, not from a scientific point of view, but from a historical one, how cool it would have been had we been born when mankind was already having 300 million years of history behind it.
How enrichening that could have been. Instead we're forced to look at fossils of a species that in the span of 300 million years achieved nothing and at a history that's merely, by a stretch, 100.000 years old.
I know it's all about "Carpe Diem" and stuff, but, given that our species holds for that long, wouldn't it have been a much more enjoying task to study history then rather than it is now?
>pic unrelated, first pic I've found in my gallery
If I read that mess of a question correctly, you want to know if history will be more interesting and enriching to study looking back from 300million years in the future.
Do you not find our last 100k years interesting and enriching? Why do you think the next 300 million years will be any different or more interesting. Unless we somehow manage to achieve economic and political utopia, the next million years will probably be just like the last, disease, famine, massive bloody conflict over resources, conquest of new worlds and mass slaughter of whoever we find there. We will simply spread our violent ape culture across the galaxy with wanton death and destruction just as we always have.
After that point the human species will localize and adapt and evolution will take human populations in different directions on different planets so that there will likely not be a single recognizable species but many thousands of human species evolving separately. From there whole new histories will begin and few people will study or care about the primitive earth dwellers. We will probably be some kind of myth to them. Widely mocked as a hoax, The last possible remnants of our existence, our history, will be the pile of rocks that once resembled great pyramids, but the hieroglyphs will give them as much trouble and the sand and mud will cover them up in time until they too are completely forgotten.
No I don't think that human history will be more interesting in 300 million years. There wont be any humans, or human history preserved except perhaps in vestigial ether of names and ideas that will be completely untraceable, like so many place and thing names that we have now and don't know exactly why they are called that.
>>2480397
I know. Even being born in 2592 would be cooler.
Or would it, could just be a wasteland.
>>2480494
Well, honestly, I knew I made a mess just throwing around verb tenses like that, I tend to pride myself with my English but that was indeed a poorly worded question so I'm sorry.
Now to the actual idea, I think that, however grim, your point is accurate. Still, the way you described our culture and civilization as spurned and snubbed in the future makes me think of how most of us think of the Ancients right now. It's unfortunate. And even if the last 100.000 years were actually enriching(as I've said, the dinosaurs lived for far more than that and still accomplished nothing), I think history is like a huge conveyor belt of suffering for someone wanting to understand the perspective of different people across different times, given that it never ends.
Now that I think of it...hypothetically speaking, if one were to see all of history from the end of time, what would it look like? Not only speaking of humans necessarily now and definitely don't want this to sound like a Doctor Who season question.
>"Mein fuhrer, the entire 6th army is encircled! Should we try to break out?"
>"Nein! Stay where you are, it's more important we commit 100,000 troops to holding some destroyed urban industrial ruins. You are of field marshal now!"
>>2480254
Once you're encircled, it's usually a little late. The proper time to retreat would have been before Uranus picked up steam.
>>2480271
I still don't get why the Germans committed such a huge number of forces to capture the entire city when their objective of Baku was way further south.
>>2480290
Control Stalingrad, control the Volga, control the oil going to northern armies. That was the idea anyways.
How crazy was George III?
He was also George Washington. America still belongs to Britain. That's why they have the East India Company stripes on their flag.
>>2480140
absolute mad man
He seems pretty interesting so you'd think we'd have learnt about him in school but William I, Henry VIII, Elizabeth I and Victoria are pretty much the only ones most people will ever learn about
So uh, wouldn't a massacre of all baby boys in Israel make more than one person record it?
>>2479887
God struck all other notes from the records.
>>2479887
It was only a massacre of the baby boys around Bethlehem so possibly not important enough for anyone to record.
Actually, there was a manuscript recently unearthed from a tomb in Tel Aviv that archeologists carbon dated to the 4th century CE, although it appears to be a copy of an earlier scroll apparently written in debased Latin. I'll paste the relevant paragraph:
>I, King Herod the Great, sovereign over all of Judea, hereby order my trustworthy court historian to record for posterity the glorious incident of when I personally commanded my steadfast and loyal soldiers to systematically murder the newborn sons of an entire village of my subjects. Indeed, the bravery of my troops cannot be described in mere words, as many of the lads were taller than a man's knees, and stronger than most house cats. May this record stand forever as testimony to the justice and magnanimity of my reign! It all began around the year 0 when...
Sadly the manuscript becomes indecipherable at that point.
>doesn't look at history with absolute objectivity
How do we fix this?
>implying Sowell's worth listening to
Uncle Toms should be ignored; or failing that, punched in the face.
The "house nigger" is the traitor to his people.
>>2479864
>human
>absolute objectivity
>>2479879
t. Tyrone Jamalquis Jackson
What's the point of this podcast?
They're just bitching about how they couldn't understand the text.
>>2479860
What episode?
>>2479860
Of course the deepest comprehension of texts will elude anyone who only spends a (relatively) little amount of time with it. Or at least, maybe this is true for most of us with more common types of minds, who need to give as payment portions of our lives by hours before we can begin to understand this or that text.
But they're upfront with it, I mean, the name of the podcast is the "partially" examined life. They begin every episode by basically stating this, but that they were a group of lads who originally wanted to devote their lives to philosophy, but then thought better of it. Thought better of it. They've managed to live the dream as far as I'm concerned, and keep philosophical dialogue and conversation of the sort that you typically only find in universities or in the biggest of cities in their lives. And this in a manner that improves other areas of their lives (it makes em perhaps a little money, raises their social standing, etc.)
And they all seem like a perfectly fun bunch of guys. If I were you, I would ignore the temptation to skip around and just start from the beginning. Maybe you don't desire to study philosophy in such a pell mell manner, but as for understanding them, and seeing them actually grow (or not) in their ideas, the best way remains chronological. That is, you can't help but fall for them after episode 1, where they're wrestling with the ageold, "is there any point to studying philosophy?"
It's good stuff
Which Italy is superior? Roman Italy or Renaissance Italy?
>>2479760
Medieval Italy
>>2479762
this. renaissance italy was basically the epilogue to medieval history, which actually produced all that awesome communal architecture
Was Cyrus the Great a Kurd?
Cause it would explain why the Kurdish Medes bowed to him and accepted him as their leaders. And it would also seem that the Persian Darius I usurped him and his Kurdish Empire after killing Cambysses II of Achaemenid Kurdistan so people started calling it "the Persian empire".
You could tell how Darius lineage was full of weak Persians unlike Cyrus and his ancestors/son, that would join their soldiers on the battlefield and fight like fierce Kurdish lions, but also rule over their subjects with humility and respect befitting a Kurdish ruler. Meanwhile the disgusting Persians would treat them like shit (which is why so many revolutions happened) and lead their mean to pointless wars and death.
>>2479696
Cyrus probably lived before the ethnogenesis of the kurds. Certainly if cyrus has descendants, then some of his descendants are kurdish, but you need more evidence before you could claim that he was kurdish as opposed to a half-persian/half-mede which we know he was.
Even if you suggest that the medes and the kurds are the same people, it must be mentioned that his father was persian while his mother was mede.
>>2479696
He was black. His real name is Cyrone. The picture you present is a propaganda work of white people
>>2479784
You're thinking of Darius I the """Persian"""
To what extent is the following table, underlining the fundamental distinctions of left and right true?
Very simplistic. It's dubious to characterize opinions on such weighty issues with one vague word.
Also the creator of that chart is not objective.
No.
is it the dog that creates existence or is it existence which creates the dog?
>>2479666
Is existence a person?
Dog is existence.
Both and neither
Prostitute's Korean bronze statue is the girl's bronze statue which was overridden by the tank on which a U.S. forces soldier of Korean stationing got actually, isn't it?
rephrase that please
The comfort woman bronze statue is false
A comfort women were lorette, not compulsion.
The construction to diminish Japan
>>2479573
Yeah they wanted to do it. Just like all those prisoners of war wanted to build a nice railway for you in Burma. Nice try Tojo.