How is it that Hume, one of the greatest philosophers in history, is so understudied these days?
You'd think that
>THOROUGHLY JUSTIFY YOUR FUCKING PREMISE, DON'T JUST ASSUME
would be pretty important these days, but no one seems to give a shit these days.
Have ethical naturalists fucked the West by making the assertion of unjustified axioms completely a-okay?
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>>1146516
Shouldn't have combined two posts together, now I've written 'these days' three times. whoops :^)
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>>1146516
Why is Anscombe's criticism's of Hume so understudied?
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>>1146516
>hume
>understudied
hume is easily the most influential early modern figure in anglo-american philosophy departments
>Have ethical naturalists fucked the West by making the assertion of unjustified axioms completely a-okay?
no idea what this means
>look at all that nothing we conquered!
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Butthurt Hunboo please
Creating a thread to make yourself feel better because you can't actually argue the topic is pathetic
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It was only nothing after the Romans killed everybody that lived there.
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>look at all that nothing we conquered
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So the stock market crashed, there were runs on banks, and people lost jobs. If the new deal was infrastructure spending then why was it criticised? What was the alternative?
Also was his reaction the opposite of the USA's reaction in 2008. FDR spent money on infrastructure while in 2008 they just bailed out banks while taking no government ownership?
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It was criticized because 'muh free market feels'
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>>1146357
Because it prolonged the Great Depression and even caused a secondary depression in 1935 (IIR).Historians who specialize in economic history of the US agree that both his and Hoover's New Deal (I hope you knew that Roosevelt based his New Deal on Hoover's) did more harm than good.
The best book to start with would be the Pulitzer-winning Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War.
There's also FDR's Folly which was written later and cites Freedom from Fear and other later works.
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because
>taking government ownership
is ignorant as fuck
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So I've been inspired by the coverage of neolithic sardinian civilisation/material culture that we've had on /his/ over the past few days in a couple of threads, and I want to try writing a story or world building that incorporates people with a similar material culture.
It would be mainly low fantasy, and it would probably also involve people with a much more developed material culture, since I've wanted to write and world build a medieval fantasy for the longest time now, since I was a teenager.
What I want to ask you guys is whether or not is plausible to have a world where some cultures are in the stone age and some cultures are at about the level of the advanced civilisations of the iron age, and medieval times. Possibly more so in some aspects.
What would a plausible world like this look like? The relationship towards the most advanced people and the least advanced that still allows the least advanced to persist in the stone age? Tell me your thoughts.
Obviously there have been times in history where there are advanced civilisations and more primitive people, less developed people in relatively close proximity, like romans and barbarians. What do you know about other notable examples from history?
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most of europe had copper/bronze, unlikely for the period
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>>1146280
>What I want to ask you guys is whether or not is plausible to have a world where some cultures are in the stone age and some cultures are at about the level of the advanced civilizations of the iron age, and medieval times.
Not really, thats too big a leap.
The difference between romans and barbarians was large, in the real of architecture, big monuments, map making, ship building, navigation, and just plain luxuries like floor heating or other engineering feats.
But something as basic as metalworking would spread too quickly to anyone you are in contact with.
Its easier to teach than architecture or navigation, requires less understanding, and is more practically useful so others are willing to listen and remember.
Why did Iran remain persian-speaking while places like Egypt, Syria, and Mesopotamia became completely arab and no longer have any ties to their pre-existing cultures?
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Persian was almost wiped out until the Shahmaneh made it cool again
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>>1146112
Persian exceptionalism
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>>1146112
Correct me if I am wrong but weren't semetic languages closer to Arab than say Farsi?
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Were American soldiers really dressed as rag-tag as they were presented in this movie? Are their uniforms authentic or was this a move by the director to make it look grittier? They looked like the marines from Alien.
Also how bullshit was pic related? Why didn't the dude go to a higher officer and go "This is like the second time I've seen a tank and now I've been assigned to one as a co-driver, surely there's been a fuck-up?"
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There's always a big difference in deportment between the field and the rear echelon.
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100% uniformity was rarely a thing and people equipped themselves as they see fit/mission parameters.
Just look at the fact that Tonkers tied logs or sandbagged their hulls to nullify shaped charges. Factory buikt tanks dont come with those
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>>1145572
The "big battle" sequence was really stupid. Apart from that ok-movie, that tries hard to be this generation's Saving Private Ryan.
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If a Nubian king once ruled over Egypt, then why is it stupid to assume black people didn't live in ancient Egypt and became Egyptians?
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It's not, it's just stupid to assume that because Nubians once ruled Egypt that therefore the ancient Egyptian civilization was black.
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>>1145509
Nobody denies the existance of black people in egypt but the problem is when people assume ALL egyptians were black because it's in africa.
t.egyptian
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How would it be?
>A land for armenians, so they won't cry out as they do now.
>A land for kurds, so they won't chimp out as they do now.
>Levant not divided into irrational countries, but rather big and more senseful ones.
>The culture of Byzantine and Ottomans would be preserved in International Constantinopolitan Sate, probably would be one of the richest places in the world, unlike being an overcrowded shithole like it is right now.
>United Arabia wouldn't be in control of Sheikhs that empowered by Britain, like it is nowadays.
One just can dream...
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>International
>Constantinopolitan
>State
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>>1145472
He would have signed the agreement himself, if he knew his country will be fucked over by islamists and kurds. Also pic is related.
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>>1145455
>no Israel
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Any basis for this idea ?
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Well I mean, have you ever seen him in person? Know anyone who has? Didn't think so.
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>>1144932
No.
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>>1144932
When I found this image, it seemed like the Swiss author talked up Charlie to be a very magnificent person. What little I got from the old German involved his fashion, his strength, and the care he gave to his daughters.
I am not sure if you are asking for a basis FOR the myth of Charlemagne, or if you are asking for a basis AGAINST the idea that he is a myth. Clear it up for me a little.
Also, he was objectively real so there's that. Not sure how one can argue such a thing
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Why did he hate Poles so much?
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>>1144831
He wanted to unify all the Germans and Poland didn't let him take their clay for it.
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>>1144873
Well it's hard to let someone take your clay when you don't exist
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>>1144888
It did exist not long ago and their ethnic identity was still strong.
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One thing I never got. "Good" and "evil" are entirely subjective, and the majority of people (not versed in ethical philosophy) base their morality primarily on their feelings, yet there seems to be a general consensus on what constitutes either of those things to a confusingly large degree. I just plain don't understand, for example, how euthanizing the severely mentally handicapped is wrong; we kill viruses and cancerous cells, so why not them? I wouldn't ask that question IRL, of course, but I don't understand why it, along with other things, is such an offensive idea to so many people.
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Because muh religion says so
So basically spooks
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>>1144455
There is a biological basis to much of our moral reasoning.
https://www.ted.com/talks/jonathan_haidt_on_the_moral_mind?language=en
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5_WdU5aGkA
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_foundations_theory
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>>1144470
These are the spookiest links I've ever seen in my life.
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I'm having trouble understand the criticisms of this essay. His completely right isn't he?
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existentialism and humanism are spooks
/thread
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>>1144362
please explain spooks meme.
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>>1144370
existentialism: oh boo hoo, you don't know something, big deal
humanism: why bother?
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Why were East Asian dictatorships so incredibly ruthless and brutal?
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>>1143590
>the USA funded Pol Pot
Leftists rewriting history at it's finest.
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First of all
>were
They still are.
Secondly, because their entire culture is about placing the state above the individual.
Asians don't give a fuck about Johnny Chink getting crushed during construction as long as goals are met on time and preferably under budget.
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"Value of individual human life" is a foreign concept in those cultures.
>Muhammād
>not Rasoolūllah
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What did he mean by this?
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>>1142906
Please make your post in the form of an actual question please?
Enough with the SHITPOSTING. Speak in complete sentences. PROVIDE CONTEXT.
>>1142916
What did who mean by this?
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OP here. I meant "Muhammad was indeed Rasoolūllah, no?"
http://youtu.be/cHqfk5lMw-E
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Books on strategy and tactics
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I recently read Hannibal by Gisbert Haefs and I came to the conlusion that there is something that escapes me whenever I read about war no matter if the book is historically accurate or just a fantasy book.
Like Im only seeing the logistics of war and armies from a lot of points of view without ever getting the big picture, for example, I search some of the battles and I always see these cool maps with army placements and how they progress as a battle unfolds and they always fascinate me, it makes me want to some research on the subject, so I started reading the Art of War, and while its principles are considered universal I also want to read something more specific and down to the nitty-gritty.
Do you know of any books that would help me scratch this itch? any period would do.
So far I picked up How Great Generals win, by Alexander Bevin, besides the Art of War.
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Now that I remember a friend of mine mentioned the Osprey books, are they good for what Im looking for besides the pretty pictures?
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>>1142856
>Alexander Bevin
Is he any good?
>Forward into Battle
And pic related are pretty good.
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>>1142902
>near circular leaf spear
>small round shield
>lorica segmentata
what era legionary is this supposed to be