Society asks: "Who?" Businesses ask: "What?" The Government asks: "When?" Animals ask: "Where?" Engineers ask: "How?" Philosophers ask: "Why?"
What I dislike most about academic #philosophy is its preoccupation with fiddling about what philosophers meant, celebrating itself over having deciphered some meaning, lauding that meaning in self-affirmation, but then abdicating any effort to improve or apply such meaning.
Vance: The reason people always think philosophy majors are The Worst.* *I work with several lovely philosophers, so like ... if you're a philosopher and capable of talking to people without being condescending and/or wrong this isn't about you.
I read Rorty in HS because of debate and it framed my philosophy and made me want to become an American. Almost 30 years later he is still above all other philosophers to me
eastern philosophers vs. western philosophers epic rap battles of history
lol, that's a mood. 'the prince' and 'the art of war' are both kinda in the same genre - instruction manuals written by very exasperated philosophers trying to get the failsons of the local aristocracy from fucking up with basic shit.
Starting a new job next week, spending the rest of this week studying the philosophers (watching Beavis and Butt-head all day)
The Philosophers: Portrait of Sergei Bulgakov and Pavel Florenskiy https://www.wikiart.org/en/mikhail-nesterov/the-philosophers-portrait-of-sergei-bulgakov-and-pavel-florenskiy-1917
