What philosophical treatises can I read to get a varied, well rounded and unbiased idea of consciousness? I would like physicalist, spiritualist and skepticist theories, as well as any others I forgot to mention. I would like to make a personal reading list of philosophical topics, starting with self knowledge, so I can justify all beliefs I hold, in order to believe as much that is true as possible, and as little of what is false as is possible. Self knowledge seems like the most rational start, and after that I will try to find sources on epistemology. If anyone has any suggestions on a better way to achieve that goal I am happy to listen. Thank you all for the help. Hopefully, someday I will have the wisdom to call myself a philosopher in good conscience.
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mcginn, chalmers, zizek, Searle, nozick, evola
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You dont actually need to read anything to obtain what you seek. But I highly recommend mixing a bit of eastern religious texts into philosophy. Psychadelics and meditation can be extremely spiritual and shamanism and the works of behaviorism in psychology can provide a solid skeptical understanding. I can provide more info if you're interested, ive been very deep down the rabbit hole of consciousness and reality
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>>3292930
hit me
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Can anyone tell me what this wound badge paper work means is it fake/fantasy
I know what the 1914 wound badge is
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>>3291915
In the name of his majesty the kaiser and emperor, [anon], born [date] in [place] for [number of wounds] , awarded the Wound Badge
I sometimes see book reviews where people get butt-hurt about books going in non-chronological order. Surely you don't do this, correct?
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>>3291906
/lit/
No, of course I don't. Non-Chronological order is great. Many more interesting ways to tell a story then.
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>>3291906
non professionals who are not ready to cross reference shouldn't be reviewing serious history books.
did any other county in history have a better PR machine than Great Britain
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>>3291824
Turkey. They literally committed 3 holocaust-tier genocides and still deny them to this day, and nobody cares.
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>>3291824
Germany
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>>3291824
US by far
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Where French settlers okay with having their sovereignty exchanged like used cloths? I get some of them might have been against Napoleon, but I doubt they were all super excited to become Americans.
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* Were
> sorry I should've looked before posting
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>>3291807
Which settlers? Basically no european lived in Louisiana at the time of the purchase.
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>>3293454
around new orleans there certainly were settlers
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Who is your favorite philosopher and why?
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>>3291770
Zeno of Citium. Almost the whole of western philosophical thought before 1900 shares a common ancestor in the Stoics, and even if Stoic Physics is pretty wacky there's a damn good reason his and his students' works on ethics are still extensively studied today.
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Why did the Cold War take so long?
Why didn't the two Superpowers try to find a diplomatic solution?
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please respomd
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>>3291621
Well, USSR tried to join NATO
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>>3291676
Source?
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Leave the Swiss to me
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>>3291564
Leave the algerians to me.
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>>3291564
That's very rash of you.
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Republic... BEGONE
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>>3291533
Are you trying... to be funny? to imply something? to have that girl from your schooldays think that you are amazing...?
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>>3291542
Autism
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>>3291533
THE HOOR IS PREGNANT
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>It is amazing indeed. Gold is a very valuable commodity. You are very powerful and I have no choice but to submit to my servile instincts and become your vassal.
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what is it about germany that makes this board so autistic?
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we don't need a thread to understand the dangers of krautism, friend
there is enough historical evidence of the fact and what dangers your average german will inflict upon a functional society
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He shares half of haplotype with us. Pure-blooded German king.
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I disagree with my high school history teacher 2017-08-25 09:28:26 Post No.3291348
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I disagree with my high school history teacher
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Today my HS history teacher gave us a lesson on how social Darwinism was used to justify the late 19th century European colonization of Africa.
He claims that Europeans did not have the "right" to conquer Africa. I can clearly see where he's coming from, but I disagree a little.
I don't understand how his 21st century American point of view system of "rights" could have existed in the late 1800s without rule of law. In this situation might DOES make right, although not necessarily morally right.
I guess what I'm trying to say is this: the horrors committed by Brits/Belgians/other Western Europeans in Africa were morally wrong on all accounts, but to claim they didn't have the "right" to do those things is absurd.
How do I get my point across without coming off as a racist /pol/tard? Either A) help me phrase it or B) convince my why my rights/lawlessness theory is incorrect.
Another thing he does that annoys me is he refers to those who carry out Africa genocide as "white people." I don't know if he does that to simplify it for stupid American high schoolers or if he's genuinely that stupid. You mean to tell me that the present day Belarusians to blame for or benefited from these atrocities? What about an American mutt? Or even a Brit who's family has been on a farm for hundreds of years, what role did he or his ancestors play in this? Collective blame is the worst. I'm tempted to stand up one day and ask "by white, do you mean..." and list five or six European ethnicities. I'm not even white and this stuff annoys me.
It's also pretty surreal because this guy doesn't even disagree with me politically that much, we're both socially very liberal but he's slightly left in economics and I'm pretty far right.
>inb4 underage
Nope, high school senior, just turned 18
>inb4 /pol/
Read the post first
Pic related is the sort of dumb stuff he likes to show his students. Notice how all the wealth is covering Eastern Europe and not Spain/Portugal. Pure stupidity.
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>>3291348
>Europeans conquer each other for centuries
>This is fine
>Europeans conquers Africa
>OMG THIS IS THE WORST THING THAT EVER HAPPENED
Anti-colonialists are idiots, you can't argue with them any more than you can argue with a rock.
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>>3291364
You can't possibly compare the two situations. One is battle with enemies of relatively equal culture/technology and shared history. The other is direct exploitation of progressively inferior societies.
>>3291348
Your teacher has cought a case of "is-ought" syndrom. Conflicting his ideas of the way things are and the way they "should" be. Most people have it and it's really hard to break out of.
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>>3291348
Now china want some too
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Why did the Iranian Revolution happen? Seems like it was stupid because they just ended up going backwards
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I think a lot of the pics from the second part are from Saudi Arabia and Palestine, though.
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>>3291295
progress is neccisarily secular?
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>Iranian wearing arabic kefiyeh
>Iranian wearing veil
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Recently I became very interested in this guy and would like to learn more of his ideas.
What are some of his entry level writings, or books written about his work that you can recommend?
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Please convince me that the Spanish sunk this ship
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https://youtu.be/4ztOV2wrrkY
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>>3291139
They probably didn't. Coal powered engines were quite dangerous and blew up frequently.
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>Germany
>nothing to do with this
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Anyone else here a philosophical zombie? I've never had any qualia, I'm just a computer simulation. I used to think otherwise, but they've finally convinced me
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_zombie
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Not only do I not have any qualia, I seem to follow all kinds of stereotyped repetitive patterns like a robot, so I'm not even a very good simulation
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I just felt like reminding myself and everyone else about the fact that I've already accepted the fact that I am a computer program
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Blow me