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treetime
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 Posted - 11/03/2009 : 05:26:11
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| I am reading a history of Philosophy and Marxism stands out as prevalent in my life for his thoughts on alienation and greed. Anyone else have a favorite philospher? Why? |
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tisasawath
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Wallis and Futuna Islands
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Posted - 11/03/2009 : 10:38:27
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not really on topic, but if you're ever in Trier to visit Karl Marx's house, opposite there's a place where they have the best kebab ever. the name of the place is Hogar.
also not really on topic, Marx's economic theory gets the bad rep, but i think some of it is actually seriously overlooked. |
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gyaneshwar
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Posted - 11/04/2009 : 03:49:50
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| Lately I am into Spinoza. |
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trobrianders
> Teenager of the Year <
Papua New Guinea
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Posted - 11/15/2009 : 14:37:39
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If Marx had been less precocious he might have said 'Consumers of the world unite', and we might have avoided 70 years of fucked-up history. With the benefit of hindsight I'd say the man was a colossal idiot, adored by sociopaths the world over. Alienation and greed? Boy you said it. Um... I'm no fan of Marx 
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treetime
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Posted - 11/15/2009 : 18:23:45
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| I have never lived in a communist country or lived through one of their revolutions, but I will still say I wish Marx would have been more into things like labor unions than revolution. |
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Scarla O
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 11/15/2009 : 22:22:32
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| Marx is probably more relevant today than he was last century. |
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pot
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Iceland
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Posted - 11/16/2009 : 06:30:30
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Einstein
"Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind."
Heisenberg
"Natural science, does not simply describe and explain nature; it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves. "
"What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning. "
*emergency crappy askiitobee*
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darwin
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
USA
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Posted - 11/16/2009 : 07:15:31
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The great master Richard Feynman:
"We absolutely must leave room for doubt or there is no progress and no learning. There is no learning without having to pose a question. And a question requires doubt. People search for certainty. But there is no certainty. People are terrified—how can you live and not know? It is not odd at all. You only think you know, as a matter of fact. And most of your actions are based on incomplete knowledge and you really don't know what it is all about, or what the purpose of the world is, or know a great deal of other things. It is possible to live and not know. "
"Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt." |
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trobrianders
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Papua New Guinea
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Posted - 11/21/2009 : 00:51:42
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Originally posted by darwin
"Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt."
I suppose I understand the respectful way scientists like Feynman still repeat the word faith, but it can't do the hearts of men and women of learning much good if actually they see religious faith as nothing more than denial in a cheap suit. I suppose in still biting their tounges, they're still biding their time, showing faith themselves, that one day religious belief will die out for good. Or more likely they still fear religion's wrath.
But day by day we feign less and less respect for religion, or is that just the optimist in me?
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treetime
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Posted - 11/23/2009 : 09:06:00
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| A funny Philosophic story: According to Bertrand Russell, "A sophist was a man who made his living by teaching young men certain things that, it was thought, would be useful to them". They flourished in Ahtens during the time of Socrates. Protagoras a sophist teaching how to be successful in court "taught a young man on the terms that he should be paid his fee if the young man won his first law-suit, but not otherwise, and that the young man's first law suit was one brought by Protagoras for recovery of his fee". |
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