Random Thoughts Thread

[caravel]

From your local licenced InBev global outlet in about 2150 something-or-other...

[Vuk]

From your local licenced InBev global outlet in about 2150 something-or-other...

Damnation, I'll have popped off by then. Oh well...

[caravel]

Or... I might have it backwards, it might have been mutant cockroaches making beer out of fermented Belgians...

[Montmorency]

Is it me, or is lately there a weird trend in academic philosophy toward a "practical", "common-sense" realism in which, Oh no guys, we had it right all along, everything is exactly as it seems, or in other words it is exactly as it seems to me and the subsistence-farmer minds of ancient times.

[Vuk]

That is a bad thing?

[a completely inoffensive name]

Is it me, or is lately there a weird trend in academic philosophy toward a "practical", "common-sense" realism in which, Oh no guys, we had it right all along, everything is exactly as it seems, or in other words it is exactly as it seems to me and the subsistence-farmer minds of ancient times.

That is just a consequence of prolonged criticism from the public at large towards notions of being purposely obfuscating with jargon and being removed from reality in Ivory Towers.

That being said, I do believe there is value in things said by the ancients. I like the Epicureans and the Stoics and the ancient Skeptics I have read. What i don't like, is the very beginning of the "modern" philosophy and traditions with people like Descarte talking about demons tricking your eyes or whatever the garbage he spews to justify God's existence.

[Montmorency]

I'm not talking about the Classical or Late Antique philosophers - who aren't interesting anyway - but notions like "we may take as data for philosophical inquiry many of the things we ordinarily think we know", or that philosophers need not "deny what we all know to be true".

[a completely inoffensive name]

I'm not talking about the Classical or Late Antique philosophers - who aren't interesting anyway - but notions like "we may take as data for philosophical inquiry many of the things we ordinarily think we know", or that philosophers need not "deny what we all know to be true".

Can you provide some examples to clarify this point?

[Vuk]

What i don't like, is the very beginning of the "modern" philosophy and traditions with people like Descarte talking about demons tricking your eyes or whatever the garbage he spews to justify God's existence.

lmbfao :P

[Fragony]

The point is that thing you just missed ACIN. Heck, I don't even like philosophy. Descartes is kinda a rebel.

[Vuk]

Or... I might have it backwards, it might have been mutant cockroaches making beer out of fermented Belgians...

I thought Belgians already were fermented.