/lit/ - Literature

>>17734221
No but the low IQ person is

>>17734221
Yes.

Kierkegaards claim that by taking the leap of faith individuals can overcome the existential anxiety that free will gives us doesn't work in the end. What do we put our faith in muhammad? Christ? Buddha? Google? Cnn? Fox News? Lao Tzu? Porn Hub? Free will and the anxiety that it brings us isn't going anywhere and I think kierkegaard knew this deep down yet continually attempted to reconcile his superior talent of reason within the bounds of protestant christian dogma.

>>17734336
Read more Kierkegaard larpfag

>>17734221
>Kierkegaard
More like Cuckgaard. lol.

>>17734221
I agree with Kierk but I fucking despise these posts. Bertrand Russell had some pretty dumb takes on religion, but the guy was the farthest thing from a midwit

The leap of faith is just a cope. At that point you are already an atheist.

>>17735342
bro what

>>17735348
Fideism is just a last ditch attempt by sceptics to avoid the inevitable.

>>17735335
>but the guy was the farthest thing from a midwit
Try again

>>17734221
>he thinks science and religion are mutually exclusive
NGMI

>>17735355
What is the inevitable?

>>17736058
Atheism

>>17736215
Filtered

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>>17736461
the first dawkins quote doesn't really belong in this pic.

>>17736461
Lawrence Krauss is genuinely one of the most disgusting looking people I have ever looked at. Something about his face actually turns my stomach.

>>17734221
Of course he was correct. Go read Fear and trembling, compare it to the Iliad

>>17736482
He's implying that philosophers are useless, I don't see why it doesn't belong

>>17737578
No, read it again.

>>17734336
Don't know what the fuck you meant by that but FUN FACT: Christianity doesn't reject free will. You are so free that you can even choose to reject God himself and earn your place in hell.

>>17737578
"Common sense" is defined as that which is accepted as truth by most people. Socrates spent all of his time showing people why their "common sense" was actually just horseshit.

>>17736461
I'm not a fan of Heinsenberg's comment on Plato, while his claim on smallest units of matter not being physical objects in the ordinary sense etc. Plato certainly didn't have that in mind when talking about his forms. It's one thing to claim there's e.g. a form of a chair and another to say how the smallest units of matter are forms or ideas. They are similar in term only ("form").

>>17737886
Similarly, Dawkins has been quoted very deceptively. Having read some of his books, I'm having a hard time seeing him on the right side of this image.

>>17737931
I haven't read his stuff, but from what I've seen of him he does look like someone who disregards philosophy or at least looks condescendingly on it. Isn't he a typical naturalist?

>>17734221
Yes, but Kierkegaard himself would level a critique on modern American evangelicalism on three levels: overly dogmatic, idolatrous, and hypocritical. Overly dogmatic in the sense that they ignore the infinite qualitative gap between man and God by refusing to understand faith as the paradox of reason, which thus lowers God from his status of God; idolatrous in the sense that they reduce the Gospel to a mechanism of ideology- concerned more with the nation's laws than the law of love; and hypocritical in the sense that they fundamentally fail to realize that the essence of Christianity is the imitation of Christ- not the regurgitation of dogma, but a life to be lived- not to be admirers of Christ, but to be imitators of him. Many people forget that Kierkegaard spent the last part of his authorship attacking established Christendom and its failure to live up to the Christianity of the New Testament as professed by the early Christians.

>>17737931
Everything he's said in public implies that he thinks philosophy is horseshit. He literally made a tweet the other day saying philosophy is a human construct whereas science isn't.

>>17736461
scientists on the left, science """""communicators""""" on the right

>>17738253
It's more of a generational thing. Feynman was a serious scientist and he had the same opinions about philosophy as the ones on the right.

>>17734221
None of those positions are mutually exclusive

>>17736215
I can tell where you would be on that bellcurve. Fideism is superior to Atheism.

>>17738285
>Fideism is superior to Atheism.
for what reason

>>17738268
>tfw remembering his pleb take on japanese
It only proves that high IQ doesn't mean you know everything.

>>17738268
I think his problem was with philosophers trying to do science.
>I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.
>-- Richard P. Feynman
This quote is also attributed to him, and it doesn't fit with someone who supposedly thinks science can solve everything, and there's no need for philosophy.

Literally none of you fucking amerimutts can understand Kierkegaard without reading him in Danish, trust me you fucking cowards, learn the language you fucking faux ass Quaker crackers

>>17734221
No, but fideism is less asinine than scientific materialism.

>>17739730
You're aware that pretty much the entire world including most Europeans don't speak Danish and therefore it's not just Americans you're talking about

>>17737786
>you are free to kill you will just end-up in jail
>you can criticize the Chinese government you will just get disappeared

Dumbest Christcuck in this thread.

>>17739774
Sorry, am I hearing cope? I taught myself Danish literally just so I could read my grandma's Kierk collection. Go choke on a Big Mac.

>>17736482
agreed, also Bill Nye's isn't necessarily bad, as is he could still be well within Spinoza or Searle

>>17740209
literally what is your point, a tiny minority of people outside Denmark and that one region of Germany study Danish, they exist in the US too

>>17740226
>AAAARRHGA GAAAAH HAAAGAAAA BHGAAAA
I can hear that the Big Mac has settled nice and tidily into your throat

>>17740256
Just accept that Denmark and Danish are irrelevant and probably a majority of people who are influenced by Kierkegaard don't speak the language

>>17740267
>google please tell me how do i make ˀ sound god please!!!! oh mygod