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0 pointsPlatoIsADisease2mo ago0 comments

If I can recommend anything: Stay away from ancients. Western or Eastern.

Stick to contemporary people who are dead and have no marketing team to promote them.

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> Stay away from ancients. Western or Eastern

This i very much disagree with. Your username already hinted at your pov ;-)

As Nassim Taleb (a good marketer of himself!) points out in his works; the ancient philosophers (western or eastern) had gotten a lot (all?) about Life right.

PlatoIsADiseaseOP2mo ago

Read Wittgenstein and maybe finish pragmatism.

There is a reason not even Continentals use ancient thoughts anymore.

But at least read Wittgenstein.

If you want a complete destruction of ancients and pre 1800s thought, Rorty has Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature. Its incredibly boring and teaches you nothing except that these ancients having incorrect understanding of language, psychology, and metaphysics, caused them to make grave mistakes.

rramadass2mo ago

> these ancients having incorrect understanding of language, psychology, and metaphysics, caused them to make grave mistakes

That is absolutely and staggeringly wrong.

It maybe the case with some of the ancient Western Philosophies (objective, analytical), but certainly not the case with Eastern Philosophies (subjective, experiential). "Human Condition" has not changed but only the context in which it is experienced and expressed has changed.

Read at least the three schools of Indian Philosophy i mentioned above. S.N.Dasgupta's multi-volume A History of Indian Philosophy gives a very good non-trivial starting point for the serious reader.

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rramadass2mo ago

> Stay away from ancients. Western or Eastern

This i very much disagree with. Your username already hinted at your pov ;-)

As Nassim Taleb (a good marketer of himself!) points out in his works; the ancient philosophers (western or eastern) had gotten a lot (all?) about Life right.

PlatoIsADiseaseOP2mo ago

Read Wittgenstein and maybe finish pragmatism.

There is a reason not even Continentals use ancient thoughts anymore.

But at least read Wittgenstein.

rramadass2mo ago

> these ancients having incorrect understanding of language, psychology, and metaphysics, caused them to make grave mistakes

That is absolutely and staggeringly wrong.

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