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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Lepanto on June 03, 2014, 09:39:29 pm

Title: Philosophical Discourse
Post by: Lepanto on June 03, 2014, 09:39:29 pm
If I might ask a couple questions (please be civil and straightforward in replying):

What, so far as you believe, are the nature and boundaries of philosophical discourse?

What opinions, if any, do you think are fundamentally inadmissible in modern philosophical discourse, and why?
Title: Re: Philosophical Discourse
Post by: AtomicClucker on June 03, 2014, 11:41:42 pm
Nothing is sacred in Philosophy.

Everything goes, from Nietzsche to Sartre, it goes down a black hole!

The only "boundary" is which side gives up screaming, but the matter is also a neat tangent with professional scholarship and building a formal understanding of relationships that lead to such conclusions.

And frankly most "philosophers" and "scholars" are pretty piss-poor and need some brawny scholarly balls IMO.
Title: Re: Philosophical Discourse
Post by: swashmebuckle on June 04, 2014, 12:02:17 am
Philosophical discourse is limited by the size of one's ego, the endurance of one's drug supply, and the tolerance of one's audience for one's bull****.
Title: Re: Philosophical Discourse
Post by: zookeeper on June 04, 2014, 01:31:06 am
Either I don't understand the question or it doesn't make any sense to begin with.
Title: Re: Philosophical Discourse
Post by: headdie on June 04, 2014, 01:46:10 am
the limitations on philosophical discussion exist purely in the mind of the participants and their audience.  The whole point of philosophy is to discuss life, the universe and everything in order to find the answer that suits what is known from the perspective of the philosopher, be the answer 42 or something more or less profound.
Title: Re: Philosophical Discourse
Post by: Scourge of Ages on June 04, 2014, 02:02:29 am
Like with most discourse, philosophical discourse effectively ends when somebody gets compared to Hitler.
Title: Re: Philosophical Discourse
Post by: Nuke on June 04, 2014, 03:08:05 am
im a nihilist. i wont explain it because it kinda breaks down when you do.
Title: Re: Philosophical Discourse
Post by: Luis Dias on June 04, 2014, 04:49:37 am
What opinions, if any, do you think are fundamentally inadmissible in modern philosophical discourse, and why?

Care to develop this question a bit? I don't quite understand its scope.
Title: Re: Philosophical Discourse
Post by: cahdoge on June 04, 2014, 07:19:34 am
I think the most important thinking in and for modern times did Hans Jonas with his Imperative of responsibility.
Title: Re: Philosophical Discourse
Post by: headdie on June 04, 2014, 05:54:58 pm
im a nihilist. i wont explain it because it kinda breaks down when you do.

short version, there is no meaning to anything.  it just is

Nuke Nihilism
Burn it with Nuclear Fire
Title: Re: Philosophical Discourse
Post by: Nuke on June 04, 2014, 09:03:00 pm
nuke all the things.
Title: Re: Philosophical Discourse
Post by: Bobboau on June 04, 2014, 09:54:00 pm
/*nukes nuke's nukes*/
Title: Re: Philosophical Discourse
Post by: cahdoge on June 05, 2014, 04:48:53 am
As a nihilist you don't have to nuke all things because yo believe there is nothing that could be (nuked).

Do you know Decartes: "I think so I am"
The Nihilist answers "Couldn't I think without being?". (It's a bit like matrix)

And what is being, and what's the answer to live the universe and everything?


(http://www.stupidedia.org/images/8/80/The_Answer_to_Life%2C_the_Universe%2C_and_Everything.png)
Title: Re: Philosophical Discourse
Post by: Luis Dias on June 05, 2014, 05:27:10 am
Yeah this thread is going nowhere.
Title: Re: Philosophical Discourse
Post by: Scotty on June 05, 2014, 08:24:50 am
I agree, but it's a harmless nowhere.
Title: Re: Philosophical Discourse
Post by: cahdoge on June 05, 2014, 03:28:56 pm
How about more serious questions?

like:
If the sky is itchy does it use skyscrapers?
Title: Re: Philosophical Discourse
Post by: Nuke on June 05, 2014, 04:50:07 pm
i nuke there for i am.
Title: Re: Philosophical Discourse
Post by: Rhys on June 05, 2014, 07:55:03 pm
Some people don't think it be like it is, but it do.
Title: Re: Philosophical Discourse
Post by: Nuke on June 05, 2014, 09:33:06 pm
nuke the cave.
Title: Re: Philosophical Discourse
Post by: cahdoge on June 06, 2014, 05:42:14 am
You know that you'll never reach the caves exit as empiric being.

But i have an idea.
Title: Re: Philosophical Discourse
Post by: castor on June 06, 2014, 04:56:45 pm
Philosophical discourse is limited by the size of one's ego, the endurance of one's drug supply, and the tolerance of one's audience for one's bull****.
Indeed. There is no limit on how extravagant constructs one can build, yet the limit where no one will give a **** anymore is quickly met.
Perhaps a hive mind culture would be more capable here? Or would it just implode in no time, when getting stuck on some particularly stupid idea..
Title: Re: Philosophical Discourse
Post by: Mongoose on June 06, 2014, 06:05:28 pm
"I'm a stand-up philosopher!"

"Oh, you mean a bull**** artist?"
Title: Re: Philosophical Discourse
Post by: Grizzly on June 07, 2014, 07:51:25 am
All Philosophical Discourse will end when somebody adds up the numerical values of the letters in the word "math".
Title: Re: Philosophical Discourse
Post by: Nuke on June 07, 2014, 11:58:57 am
^ things to do while you are stoned.

nuke the weed. or give it to me and i will nuke it for you (while wondering if the people who programmed the computer from hhgttg knew how to typecast).
Title: Re: Philosophical Discourse
Post by: Luis Dias on June 07, 2014, 01:31:59 pm
Da hatred for philosophy and philosophers in this thread is depressing.

(http://hellomoye.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Herc_is_Disappointed.gif)
Title: Re: Philosophical Discourse
Post by: swashmebuckle on June 08, 2014, 02:37:08 am
Rule #1 of philosophical discourse is always ruthlessly belittle opposing viewpoints.

The topic was vague and concerned with scope, so Rule #1 demanded that the community make a preemptive thermonuclear strike on all philosophical discourse including its own.

The slate is clean, launch navel probe at your discretion.
Title: Re: Philosophical Discourse
Post by: Nuke on June 08, 2014, 10:51:39 am
nuke the preemptive nuclear strike.

nuke the naval too.
Title: Re: Philosophical Discourse
Post by: cahdoge on June 08, 2014, 11:38:24 am
Duke Nuk'em?