Reading this and my brain is wrking overtime
2 hard to understand
gutenberg.org/files/5827/5827-h/5827-h.htm

there’s a class favorite 😒

Bertrand Russell

he was one of the last modern idealist thinkers worth their salt…

been reading so much anti-hegelian philosophy that my copy of PoS ran away from me and i can’t find it

late nietzsche > early nietzsche

that aphorism gimmick is washed

pretending to understand Hegel are we?

excerpts of his writing i’ve seen looked insufferable

philosophy of the right is pretty easy he’s much more direct in it, PoS isn’t as hard as people (other than the part about forces) say it is but it’s a marathon and on my first read through i ran out of steam

also u couldn’t even finish Kant 🤣

tbh this interpretation thingy i’ve been reading hasn’t been too bad kinda sorta

still insufferable though f*** that nigga

reading Kant after attempting Hegel felt like reading a picture book lol

I just read Euthyphro. I think I mostly digested it well except I’m kinda confused on the wider examples Socrates used when talking about piety.

I understand “god loves you because you are x” being different than “you are x, because you are loved by god”

but I was having a harder time wrapping my head around stuff like “if anything is being affected or changed in any way, it is not being changed because it is something changed, but rather it is something changed because it is being changed”

Am I right in understanding that difference is activity? Something changed cannot be “changed” because it was (past tense) changed, it is changed being it is ACTIVELY being changed?

I feel dumb af

@edumist

i’ve been reading Beyond Good And Evil, is this a good place to start for Nietszche or should i look @ something else? @Choking

i usually rec it since it’s split into chapters with the aphorism in each chapter at least vaguely staying on topic on what the chapter is about compared to the gay science where he would talk about a topic then just leave that topic alone until he brings it up again 50 pages later. i re read Genealoy of Morals (my fav) yesterday id also rec for similar reasons to BG&E and i feel like you’d enjoy the third essay on the ascetic ideal especially toward the end when he starts talking about science and atheism.

i heard that twilight of the idols is the best for beginners since it’s him summing up his ideas around 90 pages but i haven’t read it

can u link the part ur referring to it’s been a while since i read Euthyprhro

let's say u got a tree that changes colors through the seasons. the leaves are always changing, even if that process is too slow for us to see in real time. the tree's natural state of existence is constant change.

P = tree who's leaves are always changing

in the definition of P, we can see that constant change is involved. However, even as the tree changes colors, it can still be defined as P. the tree might be changing, but P is not.

P is not being changed, but P refers to an object that is being changed. Hence, P is not being changed because it is something changed, but rather P is something changed because it is being changed.

Reading about free will has ruined my mental health and i think destroyed my life

computational theory of mind?

I just get freaked out now cause i now realize, everyone has free will. Everyone around you at all times. And it f***s with me

Everything in that realm

fascinating af isnt it

we're just a meat robot that spits out whatever comes in