You lost me at girlfriend, pal. But seriously, it's the living dichotomy between master and slave morality. There is a different system to live by when you're in the higher echelons of performance.
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These are ~1 layer removed, but it shook me from an epistemological perspective. Basically it destroys the idea of metaphysical truth. I'll start with the easy one that was written in native English, William James's Pragmatism. Its only 4 hours long, and teaches 1 of the 3 branches of metaphilosophy(Pragmatic). For ROI in philosophy, it doesn't get better than this. It teaches one of the 3 theories of Truth. Next is…
William James i have read, both "Pragmatism"(not completely though) and "Talks to Teachers" (my favourite) but not much of Wittgenstein. There is a lot here which jives with ancient Hindu Schools of Philosophy, specifically; Nyaya ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyaya ), Vaisheshika ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaisheshika ) and Charvaka ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charvaka ). Bayesian epistemology with priors…
If I can recommend anything: Stay away from ancients. Western or Eastern.
Stick to contemporary people who are dead and have no marketing team to promote them.
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#133> It's much more comfortable to be the person that "could be X" than to be the person that tries to actually do it. Brilliant insight. Reminds of me this, from Theodore Roosevelt's Citizenship in a Republic: > It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose…
This kind of warrior ethos outside of fantasy books or games is a huge turn off to me, it feels so anachronistic. I don’t understand why it seems so prevalent in the US, especially as a country built on Christianity that has Jesus coming as an harmless lamb to teach compassion, humility and love. Courage, devotion, perseverance, sure. Victory or defeat? No thanks.
Sure those are the things Jesus advocated for in society, but it's not as if a warrior ethos isn't warranted for Jesus considering the attitude towards his message at the time. Especially when you gauge it in the light of what eventually happened to him. The ultimate message in Christianity is the necessity of perseverance in pursuit of goals. The world in general isn't immediately receptive to a message that priorities acceptance over lament.
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#134thanks for sharing your thoughts. I'm about to go down this journey and this is extremely useful to keep in mind.
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This kind of warrior ethos outside of fantasy books or games is a huge turn off to me, it feels so anachronistic. I don’t understand why it seems so prevalent in the US, especially as a country built on Christianity that has Jesus coming as an harmless lamb to teach compassion, humility and love. Courage, devotion, perseverance, sure. Victory or defeat? No thanks.
i used to shun this kind of rhetoric when i was younger, preferring to think of myself a scholar among the Simon the chipmunks of the world, but I've come to accept that humans are made to fight. i dont think its wrong to venerate the warrior - im the farthest thing from a US citizen or a Christian, but my culture still has their folk heroes. look up lieutenant adnan if you'd like a stirring of the spirit
Yeah, I’m in agreement here. I get how this mindset might be off-putting, but we’re still in a phase of human development where if you don’t fight, you’re going to lose to people who will.
Trump is an example of someone who wants to fight, and now all of us who just want to get along are now playing catch-up, trying to figure out how to respond.
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William James i have read, both "Pragmatism"(not completely though) and "Talks to Teachers" (my favourite) but not much of Wittgenstein. There is a lot here which jives with ancient Hindu Schools of Philosophy, specifically; Nyaya ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyaya ), Vaisheshika ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaisheshika ) and Charvaka ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charvaka ). Bayesian epistemology with priors…
If I can recommend anything: Stay away from ancients. Western or Eastern. Stick to contemporary people who are dead and have no marketing team to promote them.
> Stay away from ancients. Western or Eastern
This i very much disagree with. Your username already hinted at your pov ;-)
As Nassim Taleb (a good marketer of himself!) points out in his works; the ancient philosophers (western or eastern) had gotten a lot (all?) about Life right.
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> It's much more comfortable to be the person that "could be X" than to be the person that tries to actually do it. It’s much more impressive to say you have done something than to say you’re going to do it. A friend of mine has all these failed hobbies he tells everyone he’s going to do, then gives up on. I wait a few months before telling people I’m doing something so I’m fairly confident it’s something I will carr…
I wrote a (shortish) book with someone once who was obviously much more attracted to the idea of being an author than actually writing a book.
I've worked for a few bosses/ceos like this. Far more interested in being seen as someone with a particular title or company and far less interested in what it takes to actually make that worth something.
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If I can recommend anything: Stay away from ancients. Western or Eastern. Stick to contemporary people who are dead and have no marketing team to promote them.
> Stay away from ancients. Western or Eastern This i very much disagree with. Your username already hinted at your pov ;-) As Nassim Taleb (a good marketer of himself!) points out in his works; the ancient philosophers (western or eastern) had gotten a lot (all?) about Life right.
Read Wittgenstein and maybe finish pragmatism.
There is a reason not even Continentals use ancient thoughts anymore.
But at least read Wittgenstein.
If you want a complete destruction of ancients and pre 1800s thought, Rorty has Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature. Its incredibly boring and teaches you nothing except that these ancients having incorrect understanding of language, psychology, and metaphysics, caused them to make grave mistakes.
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> Stay away from ancients. Western or Eastern This i very much disagree with. Your username already hinted at your pov ;-) As Nassim Taleb (a good marketer of himself!) points out in his works; the ancient philosophers (western or eastern) had gotten a lot (all?) about Life right.
Read Wittgenstein and maybe finish pragmatism. There is a reason not even Continentals use ancient thoughts anymore. But at least read Wittgenstein. If you want a complete destruction of ancients and pre 1800s thought, Rorty has Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature. Its incredibly boring and teaches you nothing except that these ancients having incorrect understanding of language, psychology, and metaphysics, caused t…
> these ancients having incorrect understanding of language, psychology, and metaphysics, caused them to make grave mistakes
That is absolutely and staggeringly wrong.
It maybe the case with some of the ancient Western Philosophies (objective, analytical), but certainly not the case with Eastern Philosophies (subjective, experiential). "Human Condition" has not changed but only the context in which it is experienced and expressed has changed.
Read at least the three schools of Indian Philosophy i mentioned above. S.N.Dasgupta's multi-volume A History of Indian Philosophy gives a very good non-trivial starting point for the serious reader.