Metaphysics and epistemology are what you end up doing when you try to justify an argument that you shouldn't do them and should just use science instead. — Pfhorrest
doesn't allow me to take seriously any philosophy or philosophers — Per Chance
My graduate degree says "philosophy" — John Gill
I don’t have ADHD and I don’t take anything anyone says too seriously - philosopher or otherwise (to be honest I’m inclined to pay less attention to most philosophers, yet find philosophies interesting play things) — I like sushi
Until recently i held on to the opinion that philosophy is really needed for the sake of philosophy itself. — Per Chance
Thus we now meet the view very usually taken of the history of Philosophy which ascribes to it the narration of a number of philosophical opinions as they have arisen and manifested themselves in time...This history, considered only as the enumeration of various opinions, thus becomes an idle tale, or, if you will, an erudite investigation...If the history of Philosophy merely represented various opinions in array, whether they be of God or of natural and spiritual things existent, it would be a most superfluous and tiresome science... — who
the study of the history of Philosophy is the study of Philosophy itself, for, indeed, it can be nothing else. — who
excluding those that write also psychoanalysis and hegelese — Per Chance
I swore an oath to uphold a Wittgensteinian view regarding philosophy — Per Chance
Do enlighten me. — Per Chance
Thus we now meet the view very usually taken of the history of Philosophy which ascribes to it the narration of a number of philosophical opinions as they have arisen and manifested themselves in time...This history, considered only as the enumeration of various opinions, thus becomes an idle tale, or, if you will, an erudite investigation...If the history of Philosophy merely represented various opinions in array, whether they be of God or of natural and spiritual things existent, it would be a most superfluous and tiresome science...
— who
Later in the text, after being told that philosophy evolves toward the truth, we find that
the study of the history of Philosophy is the study of Philosophy itself, for, indeed, it can be nothing else.
— who
excluding those that write also psychoanalysis and hegelese — softwhere
If you successfully made sense of the quotes above, you already know Hegelese. — softwhere
I swore an oath to uphold a Wittgensteinian view regarding philosophy
— Per Chance
Which view is that? I'm curious. — softwhere
The view that all philosophical problems are linguistic problems. — Per Chance
I was halfway through zizek's hegelese/less than nothing when my ADHD medication was cut off. — Per Chance
Hence no, I can't say for sure i know hegelese or least hegel through zizek. And no, i was referring to zizek when i said psychoanalysis. — Per Chance
He said when i am into software engineering i have no right to also study philosophy along with it. — Per Chance
Metaphysics is just unavoidable. — BitconnectCarlos
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