Polite Introduction

[Selah]

You forgot to add 'fatty.'  And what's with all these snitches.  We're going to have to start shanking rats.  

 

So you hate rats now?

 

I thought you stood up for the underdog.

 

I mean.

 

Underrat.

 

After your bravery saving that ladybug years ago, I thought you had an affinity for the aminal types.

 

Guess not amynore.

 

:cry:

[4588686]

 

After your bravery saving that ladybug years ago

 

 

 

 

I forget the contents of this.  

[John Ryan]

St. Thomas Aquinas, dry? Well, if you consider that the Summa basically amounts to in-class notes taken by scribes as he taught, it makes some sense. The richness of his thought is pretty amazing once you cut through the thick historical rind.

 

I am sure if I was taught Thomist philosophy from an expert in the field I would find it much more fascinating. The only reason I was able to penetrate Hegel is because I happened to come under the tutelage of a very original and brilliant Hegelian/Marxian scholar.

 

  :welcome:

 

We've got all kinds around here, Catholics all over the spectrum, atheists, Eastern Catholics... The best thing for you to do is just jump right in and share your opinion on stuff.  Debate Table's for serious (or ridiculous) arguing, Transmundane is for serious spiritual discussion, Open Mic is the catch all, and the Lame board is for nonsense.  Phatmass can sometimes have a sense of humor that requires a learning curve, so like other have said, don't take anything Winchester and Hasan say seriously, and the curse word fiddler also changes other words, to keep things interesting. 

 

Oh and right now I love Bonhoeffer. Bonhoeffer counts as a philosopher, right? Meh.  He's a bro. 

 

I think I will be a little reserved in the beginning. Eventually, I will learn to loosen up.

 

Go away.

 

But I love Jean-Paul Sartre as well.

 

Neither Hegel nor Plato make much sense.  Neopragmatism ftw.  

 

Neopragmatism is not really a philosophy. It is an anti-philosophy and Richard Rorty is an anti-philosopher, in the same sense that Nietzsche does not put forth an ethical treatise, but positions himself as an anti-moralist. However, Richard Rorty cheats, because he does take philosophical positions on many issues — for example, eliminative materialism.

[Nihil Obstat]

This guy is legit; he uses lots of big words.

[4588686]

I am sure if I was taught Thomist philosophy from an expert in the field I would find it much more fascinating. The only reason I was able to penetrate Hegel is because I happened to come under the tutelage of a very original and brilliant Hegelian/Marxian scholar.

 

 

 

Who?

[Nihil Obstat]

Who?

Your mom.

[4588686]

I

Neopragmatism is not really a philosophy. It is an anti-philosophy and Richard Rorty is an anti-philosopher, in the same sense that Nietzsche does not put forth an ethical treatise, but positions himself as an anti-moralist. However, Richard Rorty cheats, because he does take philosophical positions on many issues — for example, eliminative materialism.

How is that cheating given his quietism?

[Selah]

I forget the contents of this.  

 

You would.  <_<

[Not The Philosopher]

When it comes to Old German Dudes, I'm most fond of Schopenhauer. He was wrong about a lot of things, but wound up becoming one of the stepping stones that pushed me in the direction of Christianity. When it comes to philosophy more generally, I'll take analytic and Ancient/Medieval philosophy.

 

(Actually, wait. Frege was an Old German Dude. I'd totally take him over Schopenhauer in that case. Guy's got a more impressive beard too)

[4588686]

 

 

(Actually, wait. Frege was an Old German Dude. I'd totally take him over Schopenhauer in that case. Guy's got a more impressive beard too)

 

 

Yes

[Nihil Obstat]

I loved Foundations of Arithmetic.

[4588686]

I loved Foundations of Arithmetic.

 

 

Yeah, I liked Frege before it was mainstream.  

[Didacus]

Greetings...

I think you may have found the place you were looking for...

 

:bananarap:

[Gabriela]

"Of all ridiculous things the most ridiculous seems to me, to be busy — to be a man who is brisk about his food and his work. Therefore, whenever I see a fly settling, in the decisive moment, on the nose of such a person of affairs; or if he is spattered with mud from a carriage which drives past him in still greater haste; or the drawbridge opens up before him; or a tile falls down and knocks him dead, then I laugh heartily."

 

What a fabulous quote. I HATE being busy. And busy people are so annoying. "Get your priorities straight!"

[John Ryan]

This guy is legit; he uses lots of big words.

 

It does not necessarily make me legit, it merely means I have read a lot. 

 

How is that cheating given his quietism?

 

Sorry, I conflated Richard Rorty and Paul Feyerabend. Rorty held to a non-reductionist materialist theory of mind, whereas Feyerabend was the eliminative materialist. Though, I would be curious to learn more about how Rorty seeks to posit a materialist worldview given his skepticism that cannot know reality.