| ▲ | swiftcoder 2 hours ago |
| > I don’t even think most of it is deeply philosophical. Part of the problem is that a lot of it is shallowly philosophical. I used to attend Zuckerberg town halls, and as smart as the guy may be, it's pretty evident that he dropped out of Harvard after 1st-year philosophy |
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| ▲ | epgui 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| A lot of “shallow philosophy” seems more like “pseudo-philosophy”. I feel like a lot of people just take “thoughts” and label that philosophy. |
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| ▲ | jfengel 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | People really don't get how poorly freshman philosophy presents the field. It's not even a survey of an introduction to a prologue. So every passing thought feels like "philosophy". | | |
| ▲ | lisper an hour ago | parent [-] | | It doesn’t help that a lot of philosophy is actually bullshit. | | |
| ▲ | demilicious an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | mind defending that? I suspect that opinion would only come from one who took philosophy 101 and stopped there. If all you took was philosophy 101, this sounds a lot more reasonable and runs right into the point made by the pos you just responded to | |
| ▲ | fasterik 14 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | It really depends on what you mean by philosophy. Academic philosophy? Ancient philosophy? Pop philosophy? Self-help content? For a list of topics that aren't bullshit, the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is a good starting point. https://plato.stanford.edu/contents.html | |
| ▲ | epgui 30 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | | Well “a lot” in volume sure, but that feels unnecessarily (maybe ignorantly) dismissive of the core corpus of the field. Find me any field in which there isn’t “a lot” of BS. |
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| ▲ | blitzar 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| He's gonna be convinced of that 'til next month when he get to James Lemon, and then he's gonna be talkin' about how the economies of Virginia and Pennsylvania were entrepreneurial and capitalist way back in 1740. That's gonna last until next year -- he's gonna be in here regurgitating Gordon Wood, talkin' about, you know, the Pre-revolutionary utopia and the capital-forming effects of military mobilization. |
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