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How can we finally achieve peace?
Is she right? Is the creation of a world state the only way? Or some form of worldwide shadow government?
How would you achieve peace, /his/?
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Wasn't the point supposed to be that a world government wad the wrong interpretation of her ideas? Also this sounds more like /pol/ thread to me.
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>Overthrow the international bourgeoisie and create an international Soviet republic as a transition stage to the complete abolition of the State
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If the problem is War, and Peace is the alternative, then a world state is the only way to achieve that. Otherwise, states will always have War in their back pockets as an option.
If the problem is violence, and peace is the alternative, then there is no reason to think a world state would do any better or worse than any other states.
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Ask a a guy who just wrote a 20 page paper on Edmund Burke anything.
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What were his least favorite things about the French Revolution?
How did he feel about India?
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What did he think about the Irish?
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>What were his least favorite things about the French Revolution?
He hated the whole thing so much it's hard to narrow it down.
He hated abstract reasoning in the first place, and to him the idea that you would base a revolution on "rights of man" derived purely from abstractions was satanic.
He hated people who thought inequality was a problem because he saw inequality as God's Will and simply human nature. Meddling with inequality was meddling with God's work.
His belief in prescription (supporting customs and institutions long-established) negates the entire concept of a revolution in the first place.
Burke hated the Jacobins so much that he started to look favourably on marie antoinette of all people, even though French Absolutism was absolutely not something he supported philosophically. But he thought French Absolutism was 10 trillion times better than the French Revolution.
>How did he feel about India?
He didn't think that a company, the East India Company, should be given a monopoly over India by the British government. He saw it has terribly corrupt and unjust. He defended the rights of Indians not to face tyranny. However he also believed in the goodness of the British Empire as a civilizing mission and saw Indians as inferior to the British.
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Out of Africa theory is the theory that all humans originated in Africa and spread out from there.
But there's very clear evidence that proto-humans existed all around the world. There are even Homo Erectus bones in England.
How can humans have all come from Africa and spread out if protohumans were already in Europe and Asia?
That doesn't make sense.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out_of_Africa_I
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recent_African_origin_of_modern_humans
There's two OOA's.
pic related is simplified, IIRC the earliest know fossil found outside of Africa is Homo erectus georgicus.
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Maybe the specific Homo Sapiens just happened to mutate in Africa?
They then turned it to be better adjustable than everyone else.
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>>860296
No one is denying that the very first protohuman evolved in Africa, but out of Africa likes to state that anatomically modern humans evolved only in Africa and spread out from there.
If Protohumans existed over the world, doesn't it make more sense that they all evolved into the different races?
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What were the most objectively superior cultures in history relative to other cultures, and how were they destroyed?
What superior cultures of today have been or are being going to the shit bin?
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>>860249
European (Faustian) culture
Cultural Marxism
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Atlantis
Was destroyed by natural disaster
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ITT post what you are currently reading and what you're planning on reading next
Currently:
Euclid - Elements
Thorstein Veblen- Theory of the Leisure Class
Going to:
The Works of Archimedes
Ludwig Von Mises - Theory of Money and Credit
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now - just started a Thomas Paine reader, currently on Common Sense, Rights of Man is also included
next - Federalist Papers probably, though possibly Descartes depending on how I feel
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A Clash of Kings by George RR Martin
Planning on buying Morning Star by Pierce Brown
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Current: The Silmarillion, and Being and Time
Going to: The Idea of Phenomenology, and The 33 Strategies of War
>"It's been a long time, I could use a little help here."
What to do /his/?
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kick him in the balls
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>>859556
To be fair, I dont know how to sculpt.
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>>859556
Shrug.
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Have the citizens of North Korea agreed to the social contract, and thus they can't be called oppressed?
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The social contract is just a meme, most people don't actually have the freedom to shop around citizenship.
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>>859522
So governments have no way to justify themselves?
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>>859530
Use of force.
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Why are there no commonly accepted philosophy textbooks?
When someone wants to learn about evolution, he won't read Darwin's original works, but instead a modern biology textbook which explains the current knowledge in a comprehensible and condensed form, including newer evidence, newer modifications of the theory and excluding the mistakes of the original seminal publications. Similarly, no physics student is obliged to read Newton's "Principia Mathematica" and no math student has to read Cauchy's original texts, because there are modern physics and math textbooks.
So why is it that with regard to philosophy I am always being recommended to read the original texts? It seems to me, that philosophy as it is taught today, is still more about worshipping historical people than about actually discussing their theories. Or else surely someone would have made the effort to extract the actual theories and arguments and publish them in condensed form and in modern non-antiquated language?
Am I just being ignorant? Please help, /his/.
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>>859386
We used Sophie´s World in my school
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie%27s_World
And apparently it works as text books in other countries too.
When I have to took some classes at the uni we have to read The Passion of the Western Mind.
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Passion_of_the_Western_Mind
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>>859439
Sophie's world was so fucking boring jesus christ.
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>>859386
>So why is it that with regard to philosophy I am always being recommended to read the original texts? It seems to me, that philosophy as it is taught today, is still more about worshipping historical people than about actually discussing their theories
There are a lot of papers that comment on the philosophical books. But this stuff is not entry level, it assumes you already intimidatingly familiar with the core text books.
You don't get to jump straight into reading papers on theoretical quantum physics after learning highschool basics.
Hegel's Introduction to phenomology also is a good explanation for this. Philosophy needs to be digested as a whole concept, you can't study an individual part of it independent from the rest without butchering it. This means that yes, you need to be have read dozens of different books front to cover in order to get into the deeper stuff.
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Christianity does not answer 'why?'
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I don't believe Christianity really answers the question of 'why are we here?', and if anything, raises more questions than it answers.
If God is a perfect being, why did It create the universe and men? Supposedly being an eternal being, It would have had as much time before him as behind him (i.e., there was eternity behind God, and as much time as will continue to exist had already passed when God decided to create), meaning something prompted this entity at a specific point that made him decide to act/create. However, a perfect being cannot 'arrive' at a decision, since being perfect/omniscient, he is the nexus and cannot 'make up his mind' or 'reach' a conclusion. A perfect/omniscient being must have already arrived at all conclusions.
As to the creation: why? Why did this supposedly perfect omnipotent/omniscient being decide to create? Being perfect and omniscient, is not its knowledge and the projections of what it COULD have created in its mind of the same quality as the created thing? Or perhaps, this God entity never actually 'created' anything, and the existence we know is the thought-projection of a would-be existence in its mind as It rests in the void?
I know someone once said It created 'out of love' and for 'our benefit': but consider that the majority of humans who have existed have not been Christians (i.e. will not be saved), and even amongst those who nominally are, many will not be 'saved', considering either laxness or their deviation from the religion, all meaning that in actuality, the act of creation will have resulted in a net negative impact on the majority of humans, negating the 'He created us for love/for our benefit' argument.
But if one does not believe God is perfect/omnisicent, then one goes against all established Christian dogma (despite the historical YHWH of the Israelites being a deity in the style of the deities of his day - powerful, but not omnipotent; righteous (by the standards of the day), but not perfect).
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>>859357
your thread is shit
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>>859377
Have you got any refutations of any of the points mentioned? Aside from 'fedora' or some other insult based on the fact that you find your very specific sense of aesthetics belittled or insulted.
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>>859357
The corner stone of Christianity is "spread the good news"
That's why we are here. As for the rest of it are you implying that God should have made us better?
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1. think up of an historical event
2. draw it in paint, gimp etc
3. others guess
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Quatre_Bras
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Why are anglos regarded as "the good colonisers" and the spanish and portuguese as "the evil blood-thirsty, religious fanatic colonisers"?
Is it holywood propaganda at it's best?
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>>858914
Yes.
Next question.
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>>858914
Black legend
Yellow journalism
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>>858914
>Is it holywood propaganda at it's best?
Nope. It's mostly true.
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We know that in general terms, emotions really are just a bunch of chemical reactions going off in the brain but what is it that excludes the lower animals from displaying emotions? Occasionally I can tell that my dog is disgruntled or unsatisfied when I have to yell at him for some particular reason no where near the degree that any human could display it.
Is intellect a tool to suppress emotional outbursts or one that amplifies them?
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Im no expert, biut i imagine that more complicated brains have a more complicated range of emotions.
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>>858235
> Emotions really are just a bunch of chemical reactions
Well they're a little more then that, you have outside stimuli causing it.
Saying it's just chemicals in your brain is like saying that the picture you posted is just some chemicals in your brain.
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But the causation of stimuli is the release of said chemicals. I'm trying not to tip my fedora to hard but let's not try and derail the thread.
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Was the Civil Rights Act a good idea?
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>Edgelord
Considering the alternative was losing the Cold War, yeah it was.
Or would you rather have your mother as a mail order bride in Moscow?
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>>857666
Long overdue but a good thing.
Describes a lot of things in America desu.
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>>857666
Uh, I can't have an objective view since I'm melanin enhanced individual
But I think it in the long run it was good
The world cocked an eyebrow at how nazi-lite americans were
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is Genghis Khan's empire another example of a successful implementation of multiculturalism?
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>>857506
>multiculturalism = mass genocide
Well colour me surprised
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You're not welcome here, John
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>>857506
No, because they treated all cultures as equally beneath their own
What are some ESSENTIAL languages to learn to read Classic Philosopical texts in their original language?
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>>857147
All you need is the Rosetta Stone.
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>>857147
Latin, French and German.
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Basically, I think this is right: Latin, French, and German (and maybe Greek)
It depends on the era of philosophy you're interested in. The Greeks were kings of philosophy for a while, that's for sure; but the Greek is hard as shit to learn, especially because you'd need to learn Ancient Greek. People spend a boat load of time just learning it, nevermind the difficulty of applying that learning to interpreting and translating texts.
As for Latin, that'll help with huge swathes of the history of philosophy in the Roman world and well beyond--medieval European philosophy, and a good deal of modern philosophy too.
French is super helpful for modern philosophy too, well into the Enlightenment--and, of course, a good deal of 20th century philosophy. If you're into thinkers like Rousseau, and the other social and political philosophers of that time, then French is a good way to go. As well as Sartre, Camus (arguably not a philosopher), Merleau-Ponty in the 20th century, and even guys like Derrida and Foucault (if that's your cup of tea).
German is essential if you're into Kant (who's hard as fuck to read in any language) and post-Kantian philosophy (Hegel, Nietzsche); aesthetics and ethics before and after Kant (18th century through the 20th); and the host of philosophers in the 20th century like the Frankfurt School, Heidegger, etc.