It just occurred to me, most philosophers, even major ones, spend

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>>8962359
Solipsists don't.

As opposed to?

>>8962359
It's almost as if we live in a deterministic universe where meatpuppets are not unmoved movers

>>8962359
yea thats because philosophy is the world greatest reaction thread

>>8962359
Literally the same thing applies to every field of human endeavour

>>8962452
Demonstrate this.

If all of philosophy was one big 4chan thread, who would have the most (You)'s?

>>8962553
Plato or Jesus.

Yes because thats how humanity makes progress.

>>8962552
Spoken like a true NEET who has never even attempted to contribute to any field.

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>>8962359
you're not the first person to think this

>>8962359
The majority of philosophy is just common sense written in a well articulated manner. The greeks basically sowed the fields of philosphy bare and everything after that is just edgy shit with no originality.

Every layman comes up with and contemplates at least a few big philosophical theories on his own without even knowing that the same thoughts made someone else famous.

>>8962625
Demonstrate this.

>>8962743
"Every layman comes up with and contemplates at least a few big philosophical theories on his own without even knowing that the same thoughts made someone else famous."

OR

The 'self-evident facts' that appear before the "layman" are the products of a shared language and culturethat is the dispersed and reassimilated thought of someone who actually though hard about the limits of their time's conceptual horizon. I honestly don't want to valorise the professionalisation of philosophical knowledge, but to say 'everything after [the Greeks] is just edgy shit with no originality.' is to dismiss the technical distinctions and nuance that the Greeks actually came up with.

>>8962359
deep

>>8962553

Diogenes for shitposting too much

>>8962452
elaborate. genuinely interested

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>>8962359
Wow dude thats really deep

You should post this on /r/Showerthoughts

>>8963227
Deep meme my man

>>8962359
I want her to sit on my face

>>8962359
Kind of hard to come up with something brand new after thousands of years of thinking.

>>8962406

They spend all their time trying to refute world.

>>8962359

This is why Hegel makes the negative, nihilating aspect of thinking the basis of his work. Whatever thought takes hold of, it can't help but take it apart.

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>>8962452
>>8962552

the anxiety of influence. /lit/ doesnt even know their own stupid maymays.