Wittgenstein beat his students — Brett
Nietzsche despised sick people ... Mill condoned colonialism — Brett
Which makes me wonder if it’s possible that philosophy has nothing to do with life or how ones mind operates. Like I said, it’s as if philosophy is attached to the mind inorganically, that it’s completely alien to what we are. — Brett
Is philosophy good for us? — Brett
Obviously some of these attitudes were social norms of the times, but it begs the question, why, with their powerful intellect, could they not discern the wrong and if they did why go along with it? They don’t appear to have applied their thinking and discrimination to themselves. — Brett
Which makes me wonder if it’s possible that philosophy has nothing to do with life or how ones mind operates. Like I said, it’s as if philosophy is attached to the mind inorganically, that it’s completely alien to what we are. — Brett
can you give me an example of philosophy in action — Brett
Is philosophy good for us? — Brett
how do you apply them throughout the day with issues bugging you at the time? — Brett
Heidegger snuggled up to the Nazis, Sartre treated young women as objects, Schopenhauer had a problem with Jews and looked down on women, Aristotle thought women were “deformed men”, Hume and Kant were racists, Nietzsche despised sick people, Rousseau abandoned his children, Wittgenstein beat his students, Mill condoned colonialism, Hegel disparaged Africans and Frege was anti-Semitic. (https://1000wordphilosophy.com/2018/07/17/responding-to-morally-flawed-historical-philosophers-and-philosophies/). — Brett
We tend to think of our own moral intuitions as being universal and objective. But can you prove that they aren't a product of your own culture? — Garth
Because I can’t imagine myself going into a room full of executives and thinking “Hmmm I might need to use some of that Nietzschen will to power in this room.” and then meeting a girl and applying the same thing. — Brett
Aristotle thought women were “deformed men” — Brett
Obviously some of these attitudes were social norms of the times, but it begs the question, why, with their powerful intellect, could they not discern the wrong and if they did why go along with it? They don’t appear to have applied their thinking and discrimination to themselves. — Brett
Your accusing philosophers of coming up with dangerous ideas, ideas that can lead and have led to disasters of epic proportions. — TheMadFool
If you really think philosophy is such a waste of time why do you keep writing posts? — Jack Cummins
surely we need more reason rather than less of it in these chaotic times. — Jack Cummins
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