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Offline Lepanto

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Philosophical Discourse
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?
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Offline AtomicClucker

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Re: Philosophical Discourse
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.
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Re: Philosophical Discourse
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****.

 

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Re: Philosophical Discourse
Either I don't understand the question or it doesn't make any sense to begin with.

 

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Re: Philosophical Discourse
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.
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Re: Philosophical Discourse
Like with most discourse, philosophical discourse effectively ends when somebody gets compared to Hitler.

 

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Re: Philosophical Discourse
im a nihilist. i wont explain it because it kinda breaks down when you do.
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Offline Luis Dias

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Re: Philosophical Discourse
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.

 

Offline cahdoge

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Re: Philosophical Discourse
I think the most important thinking in and for modern times did Hans Jonas with his Imperative of responsibility.
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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

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Offline Nuke

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Re: Philosophical Discourse
nuke all the things.
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Re: Philosophical Discourse
/*nukes nuke's nukes*/
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Offline cahdoge

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Re: Philosophical Discourse
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?


« Last Edit: June 05, 2014, 04:55:37 am by cahdoge »
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Offline Luis Dias

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Re: Philosophical Discourse
Yeah this thread is going nowhere.

 

Offline Scotty

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Re: Philosophical Discourse
I agree, but it's a harmless nowhere.

 

Offline cahdoge

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Re: Philosophical Discourse
How about more serious questions?

like:
If the sky is itchy does it use skyscrapers?
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Re: Philosophical Discourse
i nuke there for i am.
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Offline Rhys

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Re: Philosophical Discourse
Some people don't think it be like it is, but it do.

 

Offline Nuke

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Re: Philosophical Discourse
nuke the cave.
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Offline cahdoge

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Re: Philosophical Discourse
You know that you'll never reach the caves exit as empiric being.

But i have an idea.
« Last Edit: June 06, 2014, 05:45:46 am by cahdoge »
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