/lit/ - Literature

why would you want to? just make blog posts or some shit.

>>3920098
To be able to share what you think is true with as many people as possible?

>>3920148
>To be able to share what you think is true

Just self-publish it on Amazon electronically, it's cheap and easy. Make a blog, make a youtube channel and talk about your ideas.

Spam links to them using leddit and chan4s etc

No one cares if you have a degree or not if you're making sense and saying new and interesting shit

>>3920088

See: Every non-fiction book ever self-published.

>>3920165
>>3920183
Are there any prominent philosophers who have done this?

>>3920222
who cares?

Yep, but only if you're considered insane.

I'm halfway through the Unabomber's manifesto and this guy is pretty much Nietzsche's modern day descendant aside from all the luddite shit

>>3920246
Obviously I do since I'm asking

>>3920350
i don't expect much from your philosophy given your desperate need of aproval

>>3920088
Yes, you submit to scholarly journals and take the rejections like a man.

I hope you can write like an academic and realise what a research programme is.

If you are a jew, then yes.

>>3920406
>>3921145
I didnt say anything about publishing myself, I was just curious since my friend was telling me the other day how it was weird that all the philosophers he knew of today were professors

Yes. Just look at based Dave from Edinburgh.

>>3921472
The research programme in philosophy requires publishing. Publishing is a rigorously socialised activity today.

>>3921492
Mind explaining more?

>>3920258
well, if you say so, post something valuable he said

>>3920350
The only philosopher i can think of who's done that is Rand, and look how that turned out

so you think you've got some big ideas to share? worth publishing too?

how original!

>>3921718
I've conclusively proved that free will doesn't exist.

>>3921724

Bullshit. Link me a google docs document describing this 'conclusive proof', and I might start taking you seriously.

OP, philosophical conception generally stem from an educated individual. Since most modern learning takes place in universities, it's only logical for professors to fill up the modern philosophical field.

However, if your ideas are revolutionary/original enough, it doesn't matter how you get them to the world.

>>3921724
i have conclusive proof that you're a dummy.

>>3920088
Of course

http://orgyofthewill.net/

>>3921500
Not who you were talking to before, but I'm going through the process of getting an article published (not in philosophy) in my university's journal. Basically, I send in what I think is a final draft of a paper, which took months to research and write. Then, at an undetermined time later, I get a "review" from two people: in this instance, one was a person in my field, so they knew what I was talking about, and the other, it sounds like, was a scientist. They give me feedback, and then I had a meeting with my adviser and the head of the journal. We go over the reviews, and I get two weeks to resubmit. My edited resubmission is then sent to a selection committee, who discusses it, and then decide whether or not it gets published. Given that this is an undergraduate journal, there's a bit more "hand-holding"; for instance, from what I understand, the interview I had to go over the revisions, with my adviser present, would not occur at the professional level.

>>3921746
"Precisely the fact that a utopia is something by definition unachievable proves that God doesn't want it to be achieved. It's not therefore so much "other people", or man's "evil nature", which stands in the way of the utopians' fantasies — as every last one of these utterly unhinged individuals would have you believe — but God himself who is against them."

Safe yourself and do not click that link. It's painful.

Oh, and if you are using "ALEX KIERKEGAARD" as a pen-name, you're a cunt. Which I assume you are, as you've put your name before your works title.

>>3921767
"Which is why I say that true genius ultimately lies, not in proving anyone wrong, but in proving everyone right."

I take it back. This is the greatest thing I have ever read. My sides hurt. Beautiful.

>>3921746
Oh, and if you're going to preface the damn thing with a quote, at least ascribe it (hint, it was Henri Lichtenberger).

>>3921746
"
"ALL CULTURES ARE EQUAL. WE SHOULD LOVE AND CHERISH ALL OF THEM EQUALLY." O rly? And what about the cultures that practice human sacrifice? Are those equal too? Or how about Viking culture, or samurai culture, or Taliban culture, etc. etc. etc. But what the subhuman means by "culture" is merely some funny costumes and exotic dishes. That's how far his understanding of the concept of culture goes. And so it is with everything. So while hypocritically professing the equality of all cultures, he is hard at work in their destruction, and in the universalization and domination of his own: subhuman culture.

In short, all cultures are equal, but some are more equal than others. The subhumans are the pigs in Orwell's parable, and even Orwell himself was one of them: an eloquent and crafty little pig."

So. Much. Win.

Seriously, /lit/, read this. It's like swimming in a pool of retarded. Amazing.

>>3921807

>>>/pol/

I take it that OP is thinking about the style of philosophy produced in academia - rigorous (by it's own standards), well-referenced, somewhat traditional in style, published by a university press. Tough luck, but the answer is no.

Some ways of getting published;
- Become a self-help guru, climb up the sales charts. Once your name is known you might be able to write about metaphysics oslt instead of finding your inner beauty.
- Include philosophy in a succesful novel. Sartre is "taken seriously" at phil departments these days, he could probably have had a phenomenological research published independently.
- Become a coveted prodigy during your freshman year at a university. This can happen by a) actually being talented b) being very skilful with people c) being in the right place at the right time d) being attractively eccentric. Then you can write some nonsense about the true nature of logic that nobody will understand (as it makes no sense) but they'll keep on trying and you'll get the fame.

regards, phil major

>>3921850
>http://orgyofthewill.net/

You clearly haven't beheld with your own eyes the glory of this work. Take a gander, but take off your socks - or they'll be blown right through your shoes.

Oh, and the obligatory "get a real major" joke.

>>3921858

Indeed I haven't, nor do I intend to. Just trying to give a clue on what it takes to get your name on a nicely bound book. Nevertheless it's going to be interesting to see the first "significant" philosopher who's first mode of publishing is a blag.

>>3921874
I'm saying read it. You must. It's too wonderful. You're missing out.

>>3921878

All right then, bookmarked for spare time, I'm already fascinated.

"Fondue sucks. It's just a pot of disgusting melted cheese in which you dip pieces of stale bread. The only reason subhumans are still eating it is because of all the apparatus on the table that makes them feel like children. Its continued popularity has nothing to do with culinary excellence but with subhuman childishness."

quite

This man considers himself a philosopher and even has a small, but loyal "fanbase" and offers an online philosophy course. He doesn't have a college degree.

>>3921891
Just wait til you get to the glory of "Just as ships have a life raft, and spaceships in the future will have an escape pod — both of whose purpose is to allow the occupants to get away in case of an emergency — so too decadent religions have the soul, and for the same reason."