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my favorite philosopher

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lol no

Richard Dawkins

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What is /lit/'s opinion on the author Richard Dawkins?

Am I the only one who has an altar dedicated to this person?

atheism

You probably get this asked a lot but what the hell, here goes nothing.

Is any of his books actually good? Like, no edgy no-God good but scientifically good? I live in 3rd world and our publishers only recently started translating his books so i never stumbled upon any of his works

"Man is and remains an animal. Here a beast of prey, there a housepet, but always an animal." — Richard Dawkins

Richard Dawkins

hey /lit/
so I just wanted some opinion on what you guys think of philosophy and if "works of philosophy can truly be considered philosophy.

Also just throw other shit out there on who you think were the greatest philosophers ( from 1800's to now )

http://books.google.com/books?id=Scxg1Pu3dOsC&pg=PT463#v=onepage&q&f=false
>It is genuinely true that, if you measure the total variation in the human species and then partition it into a between-race component and a within-race component, the between-race component is a very small fraction of the total. Most of the variation among humans can be found within races as well as between them. Only a small admixture of extra variation distinguishes races from each other. That is all correct. What is not correct is the inference that race is therefore a meaningless concept. This point has been clearly made by the distinguished Cambridge geneticist A.W.F. Edwards in a recent paper Human genetic diversity: Lewontins fallacy, R.C. Lewontin is an equally distinguished Cambridge (Mass.) geneticist, known for the strength of his political convictions and his weakness for dragging them into science at every possibile opportunity. Lewontin’s view of race has become near-universal orthodoxy in scientific circles

mfw modern sciences have rendered almost all the traditional forms of philosophy useless.

moral philosophy is the only branch worth studying.

>My face when you guys do not think Dean Koontz is a genius

My face when people who post here actually read Dean Koontz.

Severely misinformed.

Hey /lit/

I just finished reading "The God Delusion" by Richard Dawkins. I really enjoyed the educationality of it, and I know he's written a lot of books about evolution. Does anyone know if he has a single book to read that kind of sums up the others, instead of having to read his entire bibliography?

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U MAD?