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kleinbl00  ·  4110 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Philosophy Discussion Thread - Descartes, "Cogito Ergo Sum" & Solipsism.

And perhaps I've never been exposed to "good philosophy" or perhaps I know it by another name. Most of what I know is "OH SHIT WE LIVE IN THE MATRIX."





b_b  ·  4110 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Oh shit, I edited after you replied. Anyway, reread above. All contemporary philosophers hated Wittgenstein, because he pointed out that the emperor, in fact, has no clothes.

kleinbl00  ·  4110 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I'ma read me some then. Fukkit. I've been building a studio and mainlining audiobooks at double speed for the past three weeks and could use a change. On the plus side, I now understand the middle east, terrorism, islam and the PNAC. On the minus side, it'd take me a week to explain.

b_b  ·  4110 days ago  ·  link  ·  

His two major works are The Philosophic Investigations and Tractatus Philosophicus Logico. Do read Investigations; don't read Tractatus. Tractatus is his early work that made him really famous, and he completely retracted it when he wrote Investigations. Many people criticize Investigations for inventing the precursor to what became relativism. I would argue, however, that physicists already invented relativism decades before. But that's just my naive view.