Lol.
I see some parallels between Foucault and Yukio Mishima when it comes to their behind-the-scenes lifestyles. They were contemporaries.
Wasn't Mishima fundamentally an idealist though?
Whereas Foucault...
Lol.
I see some parallels between Foucault and Yukio Mishima when it comes to their behind-the-scenes lifestyles. They were contemporaries.
Ooooh. Not fair as far as I can tell. Expand on your point!
Hume argued that inductive reasoning and belief in causality cannot be justified rationally; instead, they result from custom and mental habit. We never actually perceive that one event causes another but only experience the "constant conjunction" of events. This problem of induction means that to draw any causal inferences from past experience, it is necessary to presuppose that the future will resemble the past, a presupposition which cannot itself be grounded in prior experience.[13]
An opponent of philosophical rationalists, Hume held that passions rather than reason govern human behaviour, famously proclaiming that "Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions."[12][14] Hume was also a sentimentalist who held that ethics are based on emotion or sentiment rather than abstract moral principle. He maintained an early commitment to naturalistic explanations of moral phenomena and is usually taken to have first clearly expounded the is–ought problem, or the idea that a statement of fact alone can never give rise to a normative conclusion of what ought to be done.[15]
Hume also denied that humans have an actual conception of the self, positing that we experience only a bundle of sensations, and that the self is nothing more than this bundle of causally-connected perceptions. Hume's compatibilist theory of free will takes causal determinism as fully compatible with human freedom.[16] His views on philosophy of religion, including his rejection of miracles and the argument from design for God's existence, were especially controversial for their time.
This just sounds like frat bro shit, which might be worse for his image.
David Hume wrote tons of philosophy just to say philosophy is garbage. Couldn't he have just done STEM?
He didn't believe in inductive reasoning, but also opposed rationalism, and didn't believe ethics were anything more than sentiment, and (though this is coming more from my reading of him than the wiki) didn't think there was any philosophical proof of God and that this was kind of the point of the bible passage saying that belief in God requires faith. This basically invalidates a lot of the things philosophers were looking into at the time.
Noam Chomsky is the opposite of Foucault, can you imagine him volunteering to be spanked? He's the opposite of sex.
I don't know why Camus comprises like half of philosopher memes. I guess he's just too absurd to be interpreted seriously.
OK, there's my limit.Bertrand Russell had a big nose.
Lmao, and don't get me started on Wittgenstein. I'm pretty sure he died a virgin too.OK, there's my limit.
I didn't know I had one here, but I guess I do.
Not Russell.
Lol, now you might be hitting @Ren's limit, too.Lmao, and don't get me started on Wittgenstein. I'm pretty sure he died a virgin too.
Out of the philosophers there are few who lived worthwhile lives themselves. Is Bruce Lee a philosopher? He lived pretty well.
Lmao, and don't get me started on Wittgenstein. I'm pretty sure he died a virgin too.
Aristotle: pretty deep, pretty systematic, but god, he could have done with a writing course. The dude has as much stylistic elegance as a lorry crushing a field of beautiful tulips.
That depends on how the community shapes and participates in the rules of the meaning of being a virgin.
Lmao, and don't get me started on Wittgenstein. I'm pretty sure he died a virgin too.
Aristotle was supposedly a very good writer; however, none of his writings (that he wrote for others to actually read) survived the burning of the library of Alexandria. Today, all we have are his lecture notes, which is why he is so awful to read.