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Re: Ethical Philosophy Quiz

Greg — Thu, 31 May 2012 04:45:25 GMT

I don't know much about philosophers, this seems like a good reading list for me though. Now how did Hobbes get there... social contract . A couple of friends have recommended Nietzsche guess I'll have to give him a read.

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Re: Ethical Philosophy Quiz

vive la insurrection — Thu, 31 May 2012 04:39:55 GMT

Just a bunch of Germans who deal with Idealism, Rationalism, Epistemology, Subjectivism, and method. It's not a formal category or anything - but people like Kant, Husserl, Webber, and Heidegger

Capital is a good read - it really helped me ground what is at the base of economic transactions - which is something that helps keep everything in perspective for me

Anyway I'm done twith this thread because I feel I may be hijacking it

Re: Ethical Philosophy Quiz

Jargon — Thu, 31 May 2012 04:17:00 GMT

Vive you say things like Teutonic thought and relatives of Austrianism. What (or rather who) precisely do you mean by it?

BTW, started Capital and its Structure today.

Re: Ethical Philosophy Quiz

vive la insurrection — Thu, 31 May 2012 02:31:52 GMT

I like how a bunch of Austrians on the Mises forum are getting Sartre as their closest candidate, when Sartre was basically a Communist.

Probably becase those fashionable frenchmen used their philosophy as nothing more than fashionable words and trends to "shock the bourgoise" and subvert them any chincy way they knew how.

If you think of it heuristics, textual criticism, deconstrction, etc are very much in the realm of the market method and mentality. They were idiot political savants who were using words to insert their own deus ex machina, not serious thinkers.

As St Max says "our atheists are pious people".

Austrians actually take subjectivism, perpectivism, creative-destruction, etc seriously. Austrians (and all relevant intellectual geneologies relating to it) precede, supercede, and excede anything those loopy neo-leftists have ever had to say.

They are mere pretenders and charltans who know how to mimic reality - the Austrians are the real McCoy and genuine article. I wouldn't be surprised if 90% of their premises, conclusions, and methods could genuinely be stopped in it's tracks by the question "that's very interesting, but so what?"

Re: Ethical Philosophy Quiz

My Buddy — Wed, 30 May 2012 20:12:14 GMT

I like how a bunch of Austrians on the Mises forum are getting Sartre as their closest candidate, when Sartre was basically a Communist.

Re: Ethical Philosophy Quiz

vive la insurrection — Wed, 30 May 2012 09:59:19 GMT

You agree 88% with Hobbes?

lol, for some reason I find myself scratching out 12 of every 100 words Hobbes wrote the way you have this written, moreover I picture the words that are left talk about somethin along the lines of "Organs of man, leading to a Leviathan on man against man"

Anywho, gay jokes aside - Hobbes is a materialistic egoistic and in ways a predecessor of Austriansism / capitalism. Also, gay innuendo aside, he is kind of funny to read.

Re: Ethical Philosophy Quiz

ThatOldGuy — Wed, 30 May 2012 04:26:23 GMT

Autolykos:
I really don't understand your motivation for making such a joke. Perhaps you'd like to elucidate it.

I think he's referring to this comment.

Re: Ethical Philosophy Quiz

Autolykos — Wed, 30 May 2012 04:17:44 GMT

Jargon:
@Autolykos

Whatsa matter bro, your stones haven't dropped yet? (Joking)

I really don't understand your motivation for making such a joke. Perhaps you'd like to elucidate it.

Re: Ethical Philosophy Quiz

Jargon — Wed, 30 May 2012 01:42:49 GMT

@Autolykos

Whatsa matter bro, your stones haven't dropped yet? (Joking)

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Questions with choices like this "e) our intellect in general, but not to achieve desires. " make me sympathetic to Clayton and Auto though. Acting to the contrary of our desires is nonsense. Unless one defines 'desires' to be some very specific sect out of all possible wants to mean something like 'hookers and coke'.

Re: Ethical Philosophy Quiz

ThatOldGuy — Tue, 29 May 2012 23:26:17 GMT

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Re: Ethical Philosophy Quiz

MaikU — Tue, 29 May 2012 22:25:49 GMT

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I didn't understand few questions, but still... Ayn Rand? I know very little about her, still, interesting ;D

Re: Ethical Philosophy Quiz

triknighted — Tue, 29 May 2012 21:08:56 GMT

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I think you and I are the most closely aligned.

Re: Ethical Philosophy Quiz

Wheylous — Tue, 29 May 2012 20:53:46 GMT

You agree 88% with Hobbes?

Re: Ethical Philosophy Quiz

Consumariat — Tue, 29 May 2012 20:35:50 GMT

I have to say I clicked 'Doesn't Matter/Dislike' quite a lot. On every occasion it was because the question was too restrictive.

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Re: Ethical Philosophy Quiz

ThatOldGuy — Tue, 29 May 2012 19:40:59 GMT

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