Diogenes maybe. I don't know if he thought life was a comedy but his life sure was comical.

thanks brother

after reading some more this evening on Berkeley and Locke it's starting to come together quite a bit more for me. My mother studied Locke at York and Cambridge but for whatever reason he's a philosopher I haven't delved deep enough into. Which is unfortunate because he laid so much of the groundwork for the Enlightenment. It's hard to know whether to dedicate a month to learning about a philosopher or a year. With so much going on in my life I have to just make it a hobby at this point. And then once I start practicing Eastern Spirituality the Western philosophers start to feel less applicable to my life. Did you have an undergrad in philosophy or is yours just a hobby like mine?

kind of rambling at this point

at the end of the day i'm just an average iq guy trying to make sense of it all

Anyone have some good intro movies/books/podcast to philosophy?

GOATs

Sorry for taking so long to get back to you

First off, I really appreciate this response because it's really easy to feel that I have no ability to ask meaningful questions and learn and think critically so you speaking to the importance of that being foundational to all of this means a lot

What I'm really getting at is that finding that wealth of knowledge/philosophers seems really difficult.

I've been thinking about this in a lot of different areas of interest but finding a start point/having multiple critical viewpoints of material/finding material beyond the most well known classics just seems impossible a lot of the time

But I think a large part of that is the importance of community when it comes to study, learning and most things in life...really appreciate this thread because of that

Thank you so much for this

I was wondering why people kept accusing your posts of being chatGPT but I guess they weren't lying

Appreciate it though and I'll probably take you up on that at some point

nah complete hobby just like yours, albeit i took an morality & ethics class to fulfill a humanity requirement or whatever for my major

@PhilipMorris did they ban you or did you just get rid of the avi?

Just got rid of my avy for some dumbass reason

Finished meditations is Seneca worth a read?

might get into Kierkegaard

i been meaning to

currently working my way up from the republic

what a beautiful thing philosophy is

@op I saw you mention Tamas in another thread

Looked it up because I was unfamiliar, didn't know about all of this:

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu_philosophy

But now that I think about it I think @Very_Based has mentioned it in this thread too

Is there any place you'd recommend starting if I wanted to look into this more?

Journey from Many to One / Essentials of Advaita Vedanta

Swami Bhaskarananda

hindupedia is a good place too

Thank you

Before I dive in, is there anything you can tell me about what Hindu philosophy is trying to address? If not that, just anything in general I should keep in mind

Legit know nothing about this

@simulacrum i had a response but they locked up the thread

i think that reconciliation that you speak of can be found in monistic panentheism, which is largely found exemplified within Hinduism (or Advaita) or monist system like Mahayana Buddhism and/or the Yogacara school kinda sorta

however, if God does emanate the world, at least from the Abrahamic lens it would have to follow that either the material is fundamental, or the mind/spirit or whatever else has to be fundamental, the only way this needle can be threaded (from what i can see, anyways) is non-dualism, which doesn’t fit too homely in Christianity, Islam, Judaism etc. for the most part (or, is at least very contested/dissonant with the mainstream interpretations of these systems)

Advaita rejects this dichotomy and just posits that the world is Brahman, but the Brahman is simultaneously beyond the material world as well, and is fundamentally other to our perception, the world is unreal as so far as it isn’t eternal—things that we consider material, or properties of something that is material are largely foisted upon the world, versus something that actually inheres within these objects themselves

F*** philosophy. Just a bunch of pedophiles writing s*** to make useless idiots feel good about themselves.

@edumist that thread got locked so I'm posting here

I'm unsure whether there is a larger school of thought behind the terms of Idealism and Materialism, but when I critique/defend one or the other, I'm talking about how they are defined under Marxism

Idealism in the Marxist school of thought is referring to the concept that many, including the entirety of western civilization, have adopted, in that they believe human social development, behavior, and intellect are derived from the spontaneously generated ideas of man itself, either divorced from material reality or without any necessary connection to material reality.

Materialism in the Marxist school of thought is referring to the concept that man's intellectual development, social development, and behavior, are chiefly informed by man's relationship with and understanding of the material world. That's it lol, it doesn't attempt to make a definitive statement about religion one way or another and Marx actually references the Bible as part of his inspiration for The German Ideology, which may be his most important body of work in understanding Dialectical and Historical Materialism

I was writing my s*** out when you tagged me in this

Do you have any words written in sharpie marker on the outside of your car and/or are you flying a flag on your car as well?