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Reading philosophy doesn't make you smart
Prove me wrong

>> No.11179114

Define "smart" so we can get things straight

>> No.11179118

>>11179096
Phil majors have the 3rd highest iq of all college majors besides Maths and Phys niggers. From every class ive taken i can tell i have a higher iq than everyone except for maths and physics niggers. So, you’re a scientifically illiterate faggot

>> No.11179137
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>>11179114
I fucking hate you stupid faggshit tripfaggo

>> No.11179210

What's the deal with that image? Brainlet versions of significant people from Sokrates to fucking Varg? Why?

>> No.11179222

>>11179210
It was worth it just for that Sartre

>> No.11179223

>>11179210
Off-boarders bringing their memes in here while we're reading.

>> No.11179227

>>11179210
The original also had caveman-speak expressions of the philosopher's ideas.

>> No.11179229

This board is comprised of mostly fags because of philosophy, I agree.

>> No.11179238

>>11179210
They fucked up and didnt add the texts every grug had

>> No.11179250

>>11179096
Thoreau is the best one in that pic imo.
Is that Stirner to his left?
Needs an Ayn Rand too.

>> No.11179439

>>11179227
Now that I want to see.
Also, why is Delillo not on that pic?

>> No.11179444

>/lit/ reads the republic
>thinks they're a fucking genius
This board is insufferable.

>> No.11179460

>>11179210
his name is Grug

Grug see indefinite dyad, grug know emanates from indivisible One, grug strikes like lightning from dialectic perch, grug defeat all other grug without claim grug know, grug is untouchable, grug die honorably with berry juice after other grug say grug no know grug wisdom
>>11179444
grug wonder why trips wasted on fag

grug think fag must be lady grug in grug clothes

grug decide lady grug make angry grug leaves lady grug to bleed

>> No.11179624

This picture is the best thing to come out of this god-forsaken board

>> No.11179727

>>11179114
trip-code!
trip-code!
Sauteed-snore, watermelon-bore!
trip-code!
trip-code!
Opinionated-rat, pretentious brat!
trip-code!
trip-code!
REPLY: IGNORE!

>> No.11179739

>>11179137
>I fucking hate you stupid faggshit tripfaggo
>namefag
>only thing literally worse

>> No.11179810

>>11179096
who is that retarded looking wojak at the top left?

>> No.11179821

>>11179096
Is this unfinished? I hope someone finishes it.

>> No.11179828

>>11179739
Only thing worse is using Anonymous desu

>> No.11179829

>>11179810
thales because he thought the first principle was water

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>>11179096
>tfw my thoreau grug made the cut

>> No.11179859

Is that Thomas Carlyle with Fredrick the Great?

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>>11179118
>correlation -> causation

>> No.11180310

>>11179096
I can’t.

>> No.11180351
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>>11179096

I'm something of a brainlet reading philosophy. I don't claim it makes me smart compared with the layman or especially real intellectuals, but it does make me better able to construct arguments.

It makes me smartER, not smart.

>> No.11180848

>>11179096
I don't know what constitutes being 'smart', but for the sake of the argument let it be called: being able to think.

Reading is not a simple process of the transmission of meaning instituted by signs on a page. Reading is always a complicated process of prying forth meaning through the personal engagement of the reader. What can be taken from a text is thus always contingent on the reader's horizon, as well as his way of reading, the style or modality of the act of reading you could say.

You can read the entire canon of western philosophy, memorize Kant's categories and the distinctions of Hegel's logic and still not be a thinker. The essence of philosophy is not to be found in concepts or systems, but in the questions. And to actually step into the realm of the philosophical is to take these questions and the uncertain path of reflection upon yourself. To get anything out of reading philosophy thus requires a modality of reading that pries into the unwritten, that asks toward the Ursprung of the text from a wonder/bewilderment, a question.

In other words, to actually learn philosophy is to make the questions of philosophy a personal concern and take responsibility of this concern. But in the institution today, large quantities of students as well as (some) professors treat their tradition in this misguided view, where they view it as a 'craft' we learn from memorizing concepts, systems and logical categories in order to be able to 'think'. The result is too often thoughtless academic dribble. A lot of academic philosophers do not know how to think.

t. philosophy graduate

>> No.11180900

>>11179727
based

>> No.11181175

>>11180351
that's actually smarter than most of the shit people on this board say regarding philosophy.

>> No.11181184

>>11179118
Apparently reading philosophy gives you the power to instantly know peoples' IQ just by looking at them too. Or maybe it's just confirmation bias and narcissism. Nah probably the other thing, that's way more flattering to the ego.

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>>11179859
Yes (I drew it)

>> No.11181415

>>11179118
>IQ
not science

>> No.11181470

>>11181415
t. communications and sociology major