We know that most of philosophy boils down to 'just b urself'.

>We know that most of philosophy boils down to 'just b urself'.
the fuck

>>9456041
Surely most philosophy says you should actively try to change yourself in some way. You could argue that even the stuff that really does say 'just be yourself' ends up doing it.

>>9456136
Even the change is encouraged, it's still constrained within the naturalistic limits of 'what ought to be'. For example, Aristotle wants you to change to fit your natural mold, be that of a ruler or a farmer.

>>9456041
Any moral one.

The ego doesn't actually matter in a lot of philosophies.

You don't matter in determinism.

BLACKED

>>9456041
>Natural

>We know that most of philosophy boils down to 'just b urself'.
I guess I'm stupid

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>>9456041
>>9456046
>>9456136
>>9456382
I might be showing my ass here but in one of Montaigne's earlier essays he states Plato as saying something along the lines of "Know thyself and do thy job." Though I can't remember that quote myself from Plato, and I think it's like I said: a boiling down. Still, it's not "be yourself."

And then of course there's Polonius to Laertes: "This above all to thine own self be true."

>>9456041
What is Asia

>>9456041
>We know that most of philosophy boils down to 'just b urself'.

go away

Most philosophy doesn't have anything to do with you. Christ I hate newfags.

pretty sure Nietzsche was saying to try to be god cuz our current self is pathetic

>>9457244

"Will to power"

>>9456041
Please go shit up another board. /b/ seems perfect for you. :)

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>>9456041
I went to a modern art exhibit one time that was a bunch of scrolling digital marquees with different phrases scrolling past.

One of them was "Don't be yourself because you fuck people you hate."

Good philosophy? Bad philosophy?