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Quote: from Blackadder at 1:54 pm on Oct. 29, 2007

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Fuck Plato, Fuck Socrates, Fuck Aristotle.  

  
 I'm so glad my degree has so little to do with them

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My, but that's an intelligent position to take.

Have you ever read anything by any of them?

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No....and I really don't intend to.

If I wish to understand the euthrphro dilemma I need not consult plato.

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How can you pass judgment on something you've never read?

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with ease.

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Quote: from exceedinglyrare at 6:12 pm on Oct. 29, 2007

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How can you pass judgment on something you've never read?

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with ease.

 

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Not a very intellectually honest position to take, to judge something as worthless without reading it.

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If I get time I intend to read many more works to increase my knowledge but at this time, lack of time does not allow me to do so.

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Quote: from Blackadder at 2:25 pm on Oct. 29, 2007

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Quote: from exceedinglyrare at 6:12 pm on Oct. 29, 2007

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How can you pass judgment on something you've never read?

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 with ease.  

  
 

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Not a very intellectually honest position to take, to judge something as worthless without reading it.

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If I were to place a gaint shit on your dinner plate would you eat it?

"eww! no way! it would taste horrible!"

"how do you know unless you try?"

Life is simply too short to be fucking arround trying to get an educated opinion on everything.   --you shouldn't need to eat shit to know it tastes bad.

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I have also read a good portion of the works of Aristotle. However, when I took it out at the time, I did not understand most of it, and therefore have vowed to not read it again for a long while. It just didn't seem all that interesting and was in fact quite hard to read. I like books that I can understand and wrap my mind around, but that's just me, I'm not exactly a literary snob.

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"I like to think that pain is what forces us to grow."

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Beowulf isn't a novel; it's an epic poem. And it is painful to read.

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Dante's Inferno is also quite painful to read.

I heard that they're coming out with a Beowulf movie. I won't lie, I'm a little excited.

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"I like to think that pain is what forces us to grow."

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Quote: from exceedinglyrare at 10:34 am on Oct. 29, 2007

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Beowulf isn't a novel; it's an epic poem. And it is painful to read.

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Dante's Inferno is also quite painful to read.  

I heard that they're coming out with a Beowulf movie. I won't lie, I'm a little excited.

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The movie seems to screw with the plot a bit, but that's just judging from the trailers. I didn't recall Beowulf ever macking on Mommy Grendel.

Also, Blackadder, there is a great deal of difference between learning about the foundations of much of modern philosophy and eating something that is obviously bad for you.

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and also, what on earth made you think eating shit was bad for you?

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the foundations of Philosophy are way before Plato's  time -- they probably sprout from the moment humans gained a consciousness -- the ability to think is philosophy's only pre-requisite.

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And yet, if you do not study Plato, you don't really have a base to look at where much of modern philosophy stems from, nor do you really have a base to argue philosophy, particularly Platonic philosophy. It leads to a stunting of sorts.

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I haven't read anything originally written by any philosopher unless I was forced to.

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Teenagers reading philosophical treaties is generally a bad idea. Much better to read books about original philosophical literature rather than the other way around.

I haven't read anything originally written by any philosopher unless I was forced to.

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That's a shame. The Republic (particularly the tenth book) and The Symposium are actually quite good, independent of their philosophical content.

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Only 19% so far :(

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Massive, epic adventure, multi-coloured, multi-layered.
Sort of two/three dimensional Wizard of Oz for the future.