>ITT: We post our favourite extinct cultures
"""Western"""
"""European"""
"""White"""
Scythians.
>>2009153
Do they really have comfy glades in Scythia
Hey guys, filthy uninformed weeb here. I know next to nothing about philosophy at all, I have read nothing and have no comprehension of any actual issues.
What would be some books/texts you might recommend as essential to a beginner in the field? How would you start wading into the ocean?
The ego and it's own - max stirner
Plato - Complete Works (Cooper)
The original tutorial level for Western philosophy.
>>2008973
make sure you read this first OP. then you'll know when to shout "Spooks!" when you read anything else
>"I think today there are two sins— pedophilia, and smoking. I don't smoke."
What did he mean by this?
>>2005726
he's a very based man
>>2005726
He means he thinks today there are two sins— pedophilia and smoking, and he says he doesn't smoke
>>2005726
It means he doesn't like Ancaps
Name a more brutal war culture.
>>2002265
Aztec?
>>2002269
yeah
Why does God let bad things happen?
Because you touch yourself at night.
Demiurge.
>>2015123
"God" is a figment of your imagination that you only believe in because you were raised to.
The sooner you realize this the sooner you will no longer have to ask stupid questions like this.
How did Europeans deal with the fact that there was a huge and generally advanced non-white Empire straddling Europe and Asia?
Didn't the Ottoman example greatly undermine the hegemony of white supremacy?
>>2014755
When race became important in the 19th century the Ottomans already were the sick man of Europe
>>2014755
Sage & report
>>2014755
They pissed themselves until they were finally stopped at Lepanto.
Also being 'European' wasn't really a thing at the time. You identified as "Christian" more than anything else.
Tell me about our nation's greatest president /his/
>>2013122
Got us out of a crippled economy
Our current president is pretty good
Most people wouldn't be able to walk a mile in his shoes.
Is Genesis 1:18-20 an example of God making a mistake? He sets out to create a helper for Adam, and initially at least, fails at that task.
"And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him. And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof. And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him."
>>2008832
>Takes Genesis literal
>God, by his nature, can make mistakes.
>>2008832
Meant 2:18-20, sorry.
Dude, just keep reading. You're at the very start.
>tfw too scared to commit to any one political ideology or philosophical school of thought because I know I'm too dumb to be able to convincingly defend it
I really can't kno nuffin
Who else knows this feel?
>>2008239
>tfw always commit to one political ideology or philosophical school of thought and defend it for hours on 4chan only to change my mind arbitrarily a couple of weeks later.
Thats a sign of being intelligent though
>>2008239
>too dumb to defend it
Try being an anti-fascist, then all you need to do is scream down the opposition (anyone to the right of Mao) by calling them racists and fascists.
What are the most famous historical events associated with laziness?
>sleep till three in the afternoon everyday until late 1944 lmao
>>2017233
He was hitting the provigil too hard back then.
>>2017233
>implying 90% of 4chan doesn't do this
Tell us about our great Prime Minister /his/
>>2016997
>Rollout objectively worse internet infrastructure
>still costs more than the plan you destroyed
>Call election because you can't get shitt legislation you want passed
>Win election by a single seat
>Still can't pass law
Has he done anything right?
Australian politics is such a wank. Both major parties are dickless. It's a good thing the economy basically runs on auto-pilot.
>>2017032
I wonder how much longer it can?
What interpretation of quantum mechanics should be right from Marxists philosophical point of view?
When ideology tries to interpret science, ideology has gone too far.
>>2016598
copenhagen for sure. our realities exist within ourselves and overlap (superpositioned) with each other, which makes us all equals. Reality moves towards the most probable, which gives us motivation to work, hence blocking the communistic failure. And its our absolute belief in the system that holds the system as a whole together to begin with.
>>2016598
"Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity" proposed that quantum gravity has progressive political implications, and that the "morphogenetic field" could be a cutting-edge theory of quantum gravity (a morphogenetic field is a concept adapted by Rupert Sheldrake in a way that Sokal characterized in the affair's aftermath as "a bizarre New Age idea").[2] Sokal wrote that the concept of "an external world whose properties are independent of any individual human being" was "dogma imposed by the long post-Enlightenment hegemony over the Western intellectual outlook".[1]
After referring skeptically to the "so-called scientific method", the article declared that "it is becoming increasingly apparent that physical 'reality'" is fundamentally "a social and linguistic construct". It went on to state that because scientific research is "inherently theory-laden and self-referential", it "cannot assert a privileged epistemological status with respect to counterhegemonic narratives emanating from dissident or marginalized communities" and that therefore a "liberatory science" and an "emancipatory mathematics", spurning "the elite caste canon of 'high science'", needed to be established for a "postmodern science [that] provide[s] powerful intellectual support for the progressive political project".
Moreover, the article's footnotes conflate academic terms with sociopolitical rhetoric, e.g.:
Just as liberal feminists are frequently content with a minimal agenda of legal and social equality for women and "pro-choice", so liberal (and even some socialist) mathematicians are often content to work within the hegemonic Zermelo–Fraenkel framework (which, reflecting its nineteenth-century liberal origins, already incorporates the axiom of equality) supplemented only by the axiom of choice.
What are your views and opinions on Benito and fascism? Do you think he earned a spot as a "historical bad guy" or did Hitler do that for him.
Historical bad guy according to whom?
Like Winston Churchill said, victors write history.
>>2016333
Most history professors and other history buffs that I've spoken to describe him as an "evil dictator", but it seems like they never have much of a reason for that besides his roll in the axis. However it does make sense that the victors would paint him as though he was evil just because he was against them. I'm just wondering what other people's stance on him might be.
He was /our guy/
Can we have a discussion on this one?
>>2016295
Not familiar with it. I'm guessing he's supporting its historicity. does he cite specific evidence or is it mainly speculation?
>>2016304
He's giving archaeological evidence but I'm still watching it now. I just thought that it'd be cool if we can discuss it here at the same time.
Shit, he brought in some christian scholars to prove this shit and not real archeologists
>2016
>still being a slave to spooks
Daily reminder that any ideology you follow only serves itself, not you.
some ideologies do serve you in one way or another, though. in fact most do. that's how they maintain themselves.
it would be more accurate to say that any ideology you follow is likely serving somebody else more than it's serving you.
>>2016254
I don't understand why /his/ is so obsessed with Marx Stirner.
Everybody on here has been exposed to him by now, we're all familiar with "spooks", most of us weren't terribly blown away by the idea. Can we please move on now?
>>2016254
>2016
>still shitposting meme-philosophers