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>>17745680
what?

Construct a system of thought.

Focus on the establishment of what is understandable through serious reflective thought.

Explicate what observations are then attainable.

Integrate the potential value set of the individual through what was previously concluded.

>>17745699
But every time I push my reason to its limits it collapses on itself in a kind of radical skepticism, and I am left with the immediate certainty of Being-Consciousness... Damn Munchhausen's trilemma!

Werner Heisenberg didn’t say that

>>17745798
He did

>>17745855
when?

The first gulp from the glass of philosophy will turn you into a theist, but at the bottom godlessness is waiting for you.

>>17745878
The first gulp from the glass of philosophy will turn you into a Platonist, but at the bottom thing-in-itself is waiting for you.

>>17745873
Sorry, it was a private conversation

>>17745878
>>17745910
The first gulp from the glass of philosophy will turn you into a continentalist, but at the bottom Frege is waiting for you.

>>17745878
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>>17746017
i don't want meme answers

>>17745878
This but unironically. I even fell for the esotericism meme for some time, but thankfully I managed to snap out of it.

>>17745791
Metaphysics and epistemology are interesting but ultimately useless and incapable of providing any real answers. Getting lost in those subjects makes you obsessed with chasing something that doesn't exist.
You need a leap of faith to break out ot it, and I don't necessarily mean towards theism. Or you can choose to own it but it's more difficult.

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>>17745557
don't read history of philosophy, read philosophy of history

You're going to have to read a lot of philosophy. That's it, really. You should eventually be able to construct some worldview of your own.

>>17746864
do you think? I sometimes feel that erudition is an enemy and that the more I learn, the more I just repeat what I read and don't create any thoughts.

>>17746881
You need the proper disposition, which is a paranoid suspicion that everyone is lying to you or wrong and all your own fundamental beliefs are delusional

>>17745691
What in the who now?

>>17746928
>all your own fundamental beliefs are delusional
Not him but it's the opposite, no matter what I read I still retain unshakable faith that my beliefs are true
Is philosophy lost on me?

>>17746939
probably. you do need unshakable belief in your own ability to reason and identify contradictions and create new schemas, verging on arrogance really, but if you can't question your own beliefs you will just retain whatever was taught to you as a child.

>>17746952
I just think that ultimately logic is just a tool
I really enjoyed reading socratic dialogues but I can't say they fundamentally changed my way of looking at things.
>taught to you as a child
kek even as a kid I didn't give a shit about what anyone said and clung to my own intuition

>>17746930
explain this >>17745680

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>>17747700
Kek

>>17747700
lmao

>>17747700
funny, but
https://www.catholic.com/encyclopedia/indulgences
https://www.catholic.com/tract/myths-about-indulgences
https://youtu.be/RCNXuv_sz-0
https://www.catholic.com/tract/primer-on-indulgences

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>>17745557
Aristotle, Descartes, Kant. You are now equipped to understand any past and future philosophical systems since they are all refutations or additions to these three. Optionally, Hegel.

>>17745557
Write more. Actually do philosophy instead of just thinking.

>>17747700
Basado

>>17746308
esotericism isn't about theism though. The tendency of the esoteric is non-dualism. I have a feeling you "snapped out of it' because you were filtered.

>>17749229
>no Plato

>>17745557
first step is to stop thinking that philosophical theories can be put into neatly divided self sufficient categories like metaphysics, epistemology, aesthetics without any overlap

next step is to read the historical greats and don't make the mistake of only reading modern philosophy, and make sure to read outside of your comfort zone

then figure out natural contours of your tastes, go where your interests lead you, develop ad infinitum

you're going to be a midwit for a while, its fine

>>17746017
based and truthpilled

>>17749238
philosophy is something you live not something you write.

>>17749229
what about the indian/chinese ones?

>>17749304
ty anon, sounds great

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>>17745557
It's simple, really. You go be a midwit somewhere else.

>>17745557
Try being smart first ;)

>>17745910
>>17749250

>>17749229
It's actually really funny how influential Descartes is when you take a closer look into philosophy.

>>17751405
literally only one of those is a legit scientist

>>17751405
Kek

>>17750525
Doesn't this make you a midwit?

>>17745557
>how to stop being a midwit in philosophy
>i know next to nothing about philosophy. here are also some things i dislike in philosophy, somehow

have you considered that you're starting at the very bottom and aren't, on account of your own brilliance, just a couple of texts away from advanced mastery?

>>17751405
Quoting Nye and Tyson makes me believe it less.

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>>17745878
The first gulp of cum will make you gay, but at the bottom sissy hypno is waiting for you.

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>>17745910
This, but unironically.

>>17745557
>I don't like aesthetics
Sorry I dont talk to anglos

>>17753139
im not

>>17753588
Yes you are

>>17753740
No

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>>17754879
yea

>>17745878
The first gulp from the glass of seed will turn you into a Sneed, but at the bottom Chuck is waiting for you.

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>>17756119
Nope

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>>17748207
tldr?

>>17747700
lel redpilled

>>17757137
nigger

>>17747700
lmao

>>17746308
>t. only read books about esotericism without ever having any kind of mystical experience

>>17757258
>58▶
>>>17757137
>nigger
you

>>17745557
a missionary in scorcese's movie silence compares japan to a bog, because christianity can't take root in it. that's what philosophy is, nothing really grows there, and what you're studying are the thoughts of people waist deep in the bog and the corpses of the bog.