>They aresaid to be the founding fathers of Western philo

>>8973072
It's the school of Asian and African studies. Still, it's ridiculous that they find it offensive that they're taught Western philosophers alongside non-Western ones.

They should be arguing for more inclusive and well-rounded syllabi and not dropping parts for others.

It's the difference between "black lives matter" and "all lives matter." The former is exclusionary whereas the latter is inclusive.

>>8973072
Well whats the problem? Let them study their way. Im sure it will help them in their future endeavours.

As a philosophy student, I wish there were more world philosophy in our curriculum. Asian philosophy is particularly fascinating and, in many ways, just as deep. African philosophy is cool too. Would love to take a course on the pyramid texts and the book of going forth by day.

Unfortunately, there's simply not as much research done on these subjects which means that oftentimes it seems shallower if only because the roots of our culture don't extend as deeply into these traditions.

>The student union at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) insists that when studying philosophy “the majority of philosophers on our courses” should be from Africa and Asia.

It makes sense in context, but who the fuck cares about context nowadays right?

>>8973088
If you want to study it, just read the books yourself
>>8973090
Yeah why would you want an understanding of Western thought as a Westerner? How could that possibly help you with your studies of other philosophy? #Decolonialize

>>8973095
>School of Oriental and African Studies
What is it that you don't understand?

how many times will this fucking story be reposted on this board?

>>8973088
>I'm a philosophy student
>Asian philosophy is fascinating
>African philosophy is cool too
Are you serious?

>>8973090
>The union said it is part of wider campaign to “decolonise” the university, as it seeks to “address the structural and epistemological legacy of colonialism”.

>The student union at SOAS, a leading centre for the study of Asia, Africa and the Middle East, stated that “decolonising” the university and “confronting the white institution” is one of its priorities for the academic year.

>>8973090
>>8973102
>the Greeks did only influence Europe

fuck off

>>8973088
>Asian philosophy is particularly fascinating and, in many ways, just as deep

lol no, Asian philosophy, especially Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism, are all simple and shallow as fuck.

>>8973102
Why exactly is it bad that students learn about Western philosophers? It influenced non-Western philosophy, and it's necessary for being a well-educated person.

>>8973102
Isn't Oriental and African Studies mostly bitching about colonialism? Isn't it important for them to know why the colonialism happened?

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>>8973108
made me laugh

Welcome the philosophers of the 21th century

>>8973088
>the book of going forth by day

It's literally just an instruction manual of how to get into the afterlife you mong.

>>8973112
In this we could agree. I was only refering to the fact that Asia and Africa studies should focus on Asia and Africa. Making them dissapear from everywhere would be an horrible idea, but Asia and Africa studies focusing on Africa and Asia seems logical.
>>8973118
>The most important part of a certain culture are other cultures
>>8973121
I'm not saying is bad. I'm only saying if the studies are about Asia and Africa it's logical they study asian and african cultures. If they were studying world philosophy or western philosophy then it would be a stupid thing to do, but if this is Asia and Africa studies it's logical that it focus on Asia and Africa.

>>8973095
>If you want to study it, just read the books yourself
I have. Still doesn't hurt to have an expert's guidance (altho as I mention, there are less experts in the west).
>>8973108
Why wouldn't I be?
>>8973120
>ignoring the Indians
Wew lad

>>8973134
It's not a program, it's a school. They still need to teach Western philosophy like they need to teach basic math.

>>8973131
And Plato describes philosophy as preparation for death. Your point?

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>>8973138
>professors
>experts

>>8973128
I guess / hope not focus exclusively on that. I mean, there was a world before colonialism. If they truly want to "decolonise" the university they shouldn't make the importance of those other cultures just a relation point to Western relations with them.

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>>8973134
>>The most important part of a certain culture are other cultures

Who said it was the most important part?

>>8973149
You're right, anon. The true philosophy experts are all frogposters on /r9k/.

>>8973158
>"decolonise" the university they shouldn't make the importance of those other cultures just a relation point to Western relations with them

Dude, Academia is a Western concept.
There is no "decolonizing" that can be done in the academia without destroying it.
Most they can do is study something not as highly politicized/try not to politicize education further

>>8973145
My point is that it's not a philosophy book.

>>8973209
And yet if Plato and the Pythagoreans are to be believed, philosophy as a way of life is based on analogous Egyptian traditions.

Is Homer and Hesiod irrelevant to the philsoopher?

>>8973236
>Is Homer and Hesiod irrelevant to the philsoopher?

Yes.

>>8973257
Good luck understanding Neoplatonism then.

>>8973265
Neoplatonism is not a philosophical movement, it's a religious one

>>8973273
You seem to be under a fundamental misapprehension. Philosophy and religion are one in the same. Re-read the Greeks.

Would you describe the Bible as unphilosophical? Do you think it is irrelevant to the philosopher? On the one hand, it is an instruction manual on how to ascend to heaven upon death. On the other hand, it presents a way of life (a philosophy) which engages and answers the most fundamental questions of existence. Same could be said of the Egyptian book of the dead. Or the Tibetan.

7/10 got me to respond

>>8973287
Slavoj Zizek philosophises about Coca-Cola.

Is Coca-Cola inherently philosophical just because a philosopher reacts to it?

>>8973297
Coca-cola promotes a philosophy of consumerism.

>>8973072
Will universities go to shit in our lifetime? I know it's not that bad right now (mostly) and STEM is still pretty good, but it feels like a slippery slope kind of thing.

>>8973308
wow you are infuriatingly retarded
ideologies are not philosophical movements
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_life
ideologies and religions can't help you with that
all they care for is to spread as far as they can

>>8973088
Asien "philosophe" belongs into the theology department. So called african "philosphy" belongs into the ethnology or cultural anthropology department.

How about westerners keep studying the philosophers who shaped their intellectual tradition, in their own countries, and then non-whites can do whatever the hell they want in their own countries?

>>8973088
Oriental philosophy was pretty much incorporated into the Western by Schopehnauer, so it's redundant to study it. And what about African philosophy? What it is even about?

>>8973315
They already are, poltics have arrived in every field, your chances are really bad, if you don't woreshipe or at least make those who decide think you woreship the current gods.

Don't see what's wrong.

Why should students who are paying £9000 a year to go to "The School of Oriental and African Studies" be forced to study the philosophy and literature of Italians and Greeks?


This is very minuscule a problem.

>>8973308
Here's a quick example for you:
Sickle cell anemia will lead you to having a shorter lifespan, i.e., will negatively affect your survival.
How the hell does it still exist?
Well, it helps you to fight off sickle-cell anemia, make as many babies as you can and die a dumb nigger.
Just because being all edgy and ideological helps you early on in life with socialization doesn't mean it will help you later

>>8973328
And yet... All major Greek philosophical movements were "philosophies of life"? Stoicism, epicureanism, even Platonism and Aristotelianism. I mean, shit, we don't have a single Cynic text but it's still considered a "school of philosophy". Save me the academic hair-splitting which was used to enforce the cultural hegemony of your favorite old white men authors.
>>8973361
>dumb nigger
I agree. You should stop being all edgy and ideological. It certainly won't help you later.

Students should have no saying over anything, they are a bunch of drunk and horny 20 year olds.

>>8973398
>All major Greek philosophical movements were "philosophies of life"? Stoicism, epicureanism, even Platonism and Aristotelianism. I mean, shit, we don't have a single Cynic text but it's still considered a "school of philosophy".

you retarded faggot
that's my point
all of these were philosophies of life
the only possible philosophy is the philosophy of life
neither neoplatonism nor any other ooga-booga nonsense you mentioned has anything to do with a good life

>>8973416
>People who literally pay 10s of thousands to keep the University going should have no say in its curriculum


I guess citizens shouldn't be able to complain about Government tax decisions then too :^)

Honestly more shocked they're not protesting it being "Oriental" studies and not Asian studies.

>>8973435
>people who are retarded enough to be duped into paying 10s of thousands for stupid nonsense to keep the University going should have no say in its curriculum

fixed that for you

>>8973088
>African philosophy
Name fifteen important and influential philosophers from that place

>>8973445
Nice deflection :^)

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>>8973447
Camus

>>8973454
Nice false false equivalence there >>8973435
You must be the same faggot who asks for more magical thinking in the institutions of learnings

>>8973470
cringe post :^)

>>8973435
Students aren't shareholders, they have no right to interfere. Unlike a citizen, they additionally aren't legally required to contribute, it's a conscious decision they make, a decision that requires them to comply with the rules and the curriculum. You aren't allowed to piss on the floor of a nightclub because you bought a drink. Furthermore, a student being ignorant by definition—that's the purpose of his presence—he has even less of a justification to provide an intellectual opinion on the cursus he will follow.

>>8973464
Albert Camus is neither important nor influential, whatever the continent he's labelled from.

>>8973435
are you literally retarded? do you completely not understand the concept behind accreditation and why university degrees exist?

>>8973398
>cultural hegemony
>old white men

American philosophy students, everyone.

>>8973497
>do you completely not understand the concept behind accreditation and why university degrees exist?

I do, that's why I support all attempts to destabilize the education system.


>he thinks institutions of learning are required in an of the internet

lol :^)

>>8973511
>institutions of learning are required in an of the internet

Unimaginable, I know
STEMtards are such STEMtards amirite? ;-)
They even care about fucking genealogies in the age of birth control and free love: https://www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/

>>8973532
Don't understand the point you are making.

Trying to show off your recent discovery of a website, idiot?

Cuck!

>>8973435
No they don't, because they are clueless morons.

>>8973556
>Don't understand the point you are making.
Yeah, some points are just too subtle to be understood via this medium :(

>>8973428
If Neoplatonism is ooga-booga nonsense then why was Plotinus confused for Aristotle?


Also your thoughts on ooga booga continentals "much schizo deterritorializarion"and ooga booga analytics "muh chinese boxes"? They get more representation than most classical philosophers in modern degree programs.
>>8973506
I am a citizen of the world.

>>8973569
>I am a citizen of the world.
Show me your passport.

>>8973563
le authoritarian meme

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAH

>>8973569
>ooga booga continentals "much schizo deterritorializarion"and ooga booga analytics "muh chinese boxes"

Well, you could probably imagine what my thoughts on this are.
>deterritorialization
self-help cult
>analytics
obscurantist proto-science

>>8973567
:^)

whats the best uni to study philo at?

>>8973107

I'm predicting some three thousand times or so. Whenever it is posted, I will consider it my personal wake up call to stop browsing /lit/ and do something productive. I've used the "academia-media-publishing industrial complex" frogposter for the same purpose with great success so far.

>>8973569
Oh, and
>why was Plotinus confused for Aristotle?
coz Aristotle wrote some horrible magical shit in Metaphysics and even before it
How many legs does an insect have, again?
I find Platonic dialogues superior (to almost everything)

>>8973602
>academia-media-publishing

One of these is not like the others.
See:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandra_Elbakyan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz

>>8973625

What's your point?

>>8973637
Academia is not your enemy, but it is an enemy of the media and publishers (especially if it's STEM)
Now will you please fuck off, I'm tired of explaining everything to you, I expected a higher standard of discourse from /lit/, you dumb nigger

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>>8973072
>white people dont have culture

okay pal

>>8973569
>I am a citizen of the world.

You're a citizen of nowhere

>>8973576
>REEEE AM I BEING DETAINED??!?? RAPE

>>8973128
You my dear sir, hit it right on the nail. I never thought of that and by god it is a perfect point!

But Greeks aren't white.

>>8973160
regardless of your thoughts on the matter
what a stupid biased poll
they aren't petitioning for removal
and of course they they play the anti-PC card with the shit either/or fallacy
only a fool would vote in that poll

What order should one read Plato, /lit/?

>>8973072
I hate this fucking board so much.

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>>8974154
Your North Americanism is showing

>>8973072
They only want this 'cos there are no ancient African philosphical texts & shit like the Tao Te Ching is a lot shorter, ambiguous, and easier to read than Kant & Plato

>>8973088
>>8973145
>>8973236
>>8973265
>>8973287
>>8973569

I'm just going on a limb here and say that you've read the works of Algis Uzdavinys. I enjoyed Philosophy as a Rite of Rebirth and Orpheus and the Roots of Platonism, but they suffer from the authors ideological bias, not to mention the unorganized and repetitive nature of his prose and the severe reductionism of his general approach.

In regards to your first post, philosophical study requires specialization within a particular tradition, taking the technical vocabulary, cosmological framework and historical progression in to consideration. For technical vocabulary alone, I hope you realize that a study of Classical Chinese, Attic Greek and the Hieroglyphic script is quite a demand.

In regards to your last post, the early Arabs made a monotheistic paraphrase of Enneads IV-VI, known as the Theology of Aristotle. Pseudographical attributions were quite popular during the Middle Ages, for which reason Aristotle also had a book on Astrological Magic attributed to his name.

>>8974343
You are correct in your assumption, sir.

I too find Uzdavinys a bit repetitive and disorganized at times but his insights ocassionally dazzle and leave me in a state of philosophical wonder. For that reason alone, I cannot be too hard on him.

My primary area of interest is actually occult philosophy so unlike most I do not find it silly and in fact am studying Latin. Unsure what my second language will be.

>>8973315
>be conservative on university campus
>get harassed for what you believe in by people in the name of liberalism and understanding

They already are shit.

>>8973464
That's one, now fourteen more

>>8974791
>be conservative on campus
>no one cares, hardly anyone is political, they just want to not fail

>>8975199
1) Dumas
2) Cervantes
3) Rimbaud
4) Bolano
5) Baudelaire
6) Shakespeare
7) Rupi Kaur
8) Tao Lin
9) David Foster Walace
10) Franz Kafka
11) Haruki Murakami
12) Ryu Murakami
13) Immanuel Kant
14) Soren Kierkegaard

>>8973072
>Greeks
>white

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>>8973648
>but it is an enemy of the media and publishers
no it isn't
>especially if it's STEM
this is irrelevant to what we're discussing in this thread
>I expected a higher standard of discourse from /lit/
>you dumb nigger
apparently not

>>8973144
I don't think that's how university works, anon.

I think we're missing the point here. Greeks, whether modern or ancient are pretty damn far away from "white"

>>8973439

Oriental just means "of the east." They probably include Arabs and Indians who aren't usually considered Asian in the way Chinese people and the Japanese are. Plus we've invented a lot of new, improved, racial slurs to use instead of Oriental, which is only mildly offensive.

>>8973332
You're right, why bother trying to understand anyone else who lives in a different place than yourself? Why read anyone who isn't famous and influential in your own country? Why think about anything outside of the prescribed Western Canon? Sounds like a fucking waste of time lmao.

Seriously though, what is this hostility you see on the right to having any interest at all in other cultures? It's very anti-intellectual.

>>8973332

>white people
>University of London

Pick one, my Aryan friend.

>>8973659
Theresa pls

>>8973088
Fuck off with your eastern mystic bullshit, yoga mom.

>>8975718
nigger...

>>8976030
what eastern literature have you read?

>on the whole /lit/ isn't falling for this bullshit story
impressive.jpg

>>8973287
>philosophy and religion are one in the same
If you count sophistry as philosophy

>>8976054
all 7 pages

>>8973088
>African philosophy
so cannibalism and being a child soldier high on meth?

>>8976080
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramayana
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahabharata

Look at how many books the Mahabharata is divided into and then look up how many pgs each fucking book has. its a fucking massive tome. there's a bunch of shit like this you uncultures swines aren't aware of and im not even trying to play into the self-boasting game of "x>y".

>>8973072
it's insecurities, that's all it is, and the leftliberal establishment is encouraging it.

>>8973487
>neither important nor influential

man I don't like Camus either but this is some dopey shit to be saying so straightfaced. Furthermore I'm not going to tell you not to trip around but I'll say it would make sense to me if you didn't use it for a while just to explore and decided you felt more comfy not leaving a paper trail on what a rubberbrain you are

>>8973120
This is bait.

>>8973569
>I am a citizen of the world.
you are a selfhating cuck

>>8974683
Just studying or practicing as well?

Either way, if you're interested, I can hit you up with some essential readings for that oldschool occult philosophy.

>greeks
>white

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>African philosophy
Holy Jesus, I am chocking right here

>>8976178
I am

>>8976274
Ooga booga eat a Kudu.
This is not racist. This is a simplified statement signifying African man's struggle to sustain himself and break free of oppression and cruelty.

>>8976308
"ooga booga wher da whiet wimmin at?" Tyronnius The 3rd

Truly a fine example of African philosophy

>>8976102
cringe: the post

>>8976163
Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre are considered influential philosophers in the United States. In France they are merely read as writers in highschool, and barely mentioned in college. There are many thinkers more important and recognized than they are. Gilles Deleuze, Henri Bergson, Emmanuel Levinas, Michel Foucault, Vladimir Jankékévitch, Jacques Ellul. Hell, Claude Levi-Strauss is more widely credited as a philosopher.

Also, I've been here for several years.

>>8976247
They were white because they got culturally enriched

>>8976873
before*

>>8973072
>BANNING KANT
NEUROTYPICALS NEED TO LEAVE REEEEEEEEEE

>>8973287
>Philosophy and religion are one in the same. Re-read the Greeks.
Oh, like Plato's Euthyphro, where close reading uncovers that one need not worship or follow the gods if there's a form the gods model themselves off of?

>>8973085
People with reasonable demands don't show up in international news.

>>8976500
But nobody is asking about any of that it's all immaterial to the original question

at least they can still teach socrates

>>8973072
Liberals risk losing awareness of the water they're swimming in, ie. the Western tradition. Their rejection of western philosophy is itself based on western philosophy. Rather than seeking to understand their place in the world and in history they retreat into a self defeating autistic quest for the 'authentic' tru pure 'decolonized' perspective, which if it even makes an appearance, is suspiciously similar to the common sense 21st century liberal perspective. Note how they don't even realise their aping of Heidegger, Rather than grounding, say Islamic philosophy, in theology or the shared legacy of classical antiquity, they muddle it up with ahistorical notions of 'race' 'gender' et al. In the end, liberals uphold the same east west dichotomy they claim to oppose. But now 'the east' is equated with a nebulous notion of autheticity

>>8976178
Mostly studying.

I am interested though.

The Eurocentrism is so ingrained in their 'multiculural' minds that they consider Western culture to be 'plain' (default, normal, regular) with other cultures being considered 'flavors' (variations, substitutions, mutations).

They want to know why they're only taught the plain, and not the flavorful.

A white male Western European is the default human being in their minds. That's the textbook definition of human. It takes different genitals, languages, and styles of hats to constitute 'culture'.

>>8973128
SOAS was created as a colonial school for future beurocrats of the empire. It is still majority white, it just has more unironic darkies now

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>he didn't start with the Africans

>>8978815
this, they're the real cucks, unironically

>>8973072

You know, the initial impulse is to be disgusted with the know nothing students. And of course, their objective is still wrong in the sense that it is based on a false identity politics motive: old dead white guys are not us, and we don't want to learn about people who are not us, because they add no value.

Obviously, the above real reasons for why students don't want to learn from old dead white guys are, in /general/, childish, themselves racist, and simply wrong: imagine what a small mind it is that /never/ wants to even try reading something that they personally completely disagree with, out of sheer curiosity.

This leads me to a generally complimentary digression before I circle back and complete my real point, which is below: one of the nice things about 4chan users generally that I actually quite like is that they tend to actually know details about things that they themselves personally dislike, whatever they may be. I'm simply making the banal compliment that the average 4chan user is more sophisticated with respect to information-gathering than the average person. So good for (most of) you.

Now, back to my real point, which goes to the above two paragraphs: /initially/ one wants to reject the kids as stupid. But then I actually read some Aristotle, realized that he was wrong about just about everything meaningful or definite In this sense, and on that one point I can theoretically agree with the stupid kids even though the kids themselves don't know Aristotle's stupidity in detail, generally speaking. In fine, Aristotle should cease entirely to be studied as a philosopher, and relegated even more thoroughly and entirely to the role of historical curiosity and meme, and not taken seriously about anything about which he might have an opinion, just because there happens to be an extant work of some kind.

>>8979116
>Now, back to my real point, which goes to the above two paragraphs: /initially/ one wants to reject the kids as stupid. But then I actually read some Aristotle, realized that he was wrong about just about everything meaningful or definite In this sense, and on that one point I can theoretically agree with the stupid kids even though the kids themselves don't know Aristotle's stupidity in detail, generally speaking. In fine, Aristotle should cease entirely to be studied as a philosopher, and relegated even more thoroughly and entirely to the role of historical curiosity and meme, and not taken seriously about anything about which he might have an opinion, just because there happens to be an extant work of some kind.
wow anon. thank you for blessing us with your opinion on one of the most revered minds of western history. i will call an urgent meeting of the United Nations to discuss banning Aristotle from the classroom based on your incisive commentary and personal beliefs.

>>8975899
Rape and dubs.
Neat

>>8974117
Cringe

>>8976435
>Truth: the post
Ftfy

>>8976098
you're telling me you don't wanna read that?

>>8979133

Your appeal to authority exposes the lie itself, for full investigation.

It is true that Aristotle is a central chunk of the western canon, and has influenced thought throughout most of western history. And that is exactly the problem, for the very reason that so much of what he said is demonstrably false (the more concrete assertions), that these manifold errors poison the whole 'corpus aristotelicum' (the term of art) to the point that it really should all be presumed false unless provably right in some more modern court of discourse.

To use a simplistic example: we are all familiar with the meme-charts which illustrate scientific progress vs. world history, then attributing large would-be gaps to the dark ages, christianity, etc. The charts make smart people cringe because they are simplistic, revisionist, etc, yet even most of those same smart people will admit of a certain truth in the conclusion, it's just that they'd rather complicate (in the positive sense) the issue. The point here is that a large chunk of that white-absent would-be sliver is down to the /presence/ of Aristotle in world history, as opposed to Christianity, burning the library of Alexandria, and so on. I would go as far as to suggest that Aristotle has represented a net loss for history, in any category worth measuring (for which I will apply my own value judgments which you might easily guess at).

This isn't just Kant making racist aesthetic arguments one time, which would of itself be enough for the above SJW snowflakes not to want to read about the noumena, the categorical imperative, and so on. No, my point is that Aristotle is so generally and consistently wrong about so much that this is the grounds for rejecting him, and not on some one isolated identity politics "gotcha".

>>8979186
you fundamentally misunderstand the entire point of studying classical authors. nobody is concerned with keeping tally of who is write and who is wrong, and certainly nobody in the academy is uncritically teaching aristotle as an unimpeachable beacon of truth

>>8979195

On the contrary, you fundamentally misunderstand the point of reading any work which purports to be to some extent non-fictional, informative, etc.

>nobody is concerned with keeping tally of who is [right] and who is wrong

If true, (it isn't), then nobody is doing philosophy properly. But of course most people, including most academics, won't actually agree with what you've just tried to say, and once you can think on a little bit, you will necessarily be forced to conced the point. What else is the content of an education in philosophy than prompting the class to consider the text with which they are confronted, and to challenge them to produce a new text or discussion, /a fundamental consideration of which is almost always whether the text is in some sense, 'right'?/

No, what you seem to want to describe is along the lines of historical curiosity, for which I have just called for Aristotle to be banished, and so I am happy that you seem to concede that point, and along my desired lines. The more salvageable part of what you seem to want to say (and had you spent more time on this, then your post would have been better for it) is that it is important to understand Aristotle's place in the history of ideas in order to make sense of the rest of philosophy. However, like Marx, what needs doing is a tradition about these people of what not to do, to understand that they really did fail, and why.

>>8973085
>It's the difference between "black lives matter" and "all lives matter." The former is exclusionary whereas the latter is inclusive.

Oh, you're one of those people.

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>>8975935
>It's very anti-intellectual
Triggered university leftists banning 99% of human knowledge because of "muh dead white men" seems more anti-intellectual to me.

If schools weren't so cucked, at least three quarters of all classes on Africa or Asia would be devoted to German Idealist philosophers.

>>8979166
no general buttnaked was enough for me
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Butt_Naked

>>8979429
>If schools weren't so cucked, at least three quarters of all classes on Africa or Asia would be devoted to German Idealist philosophers.
"alright students thank you for taking African Economic Growth and Troubles in the Mid-20th Century, please pull out your copy of Schopenhauer and let's get started"

>>8979458
This would be the end of cultural Marxism

>>8979468
>calls himself an idealist
>thinks that his view of reality is superior to another

>>8978853
>SOAS was created as a colonial school for future beurocrats of the empire.
The new colonial managerial ideology is just somewhat more subtle than it used to be, but nothing has actually changed

>>8973072
They're not going to study philosophy anyway, if they really wanted to study philosophy they wouldn't be in a fucking university

>>8973345
>basement-dweller working with 19th c. translations got it on lock

Yeah don't bother with the Upanishads.

>>8979468
>cultural Marxism
doesnt exist and even if it did, utterly incorrect terminology

>>8973144
Are you in high school?

>>8979186
>he thinks philosophy is about being right and wrong

Back to the Greeks please.

>>8977739
HOLY SHIT THIS THIS THIS

Here's your (You), anon!

>>8979116
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>>8979275
Oh for god's sake. Get Strausspilled already.