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  • Nuja 🫶🏾
    Aug 4, 2021
    Super Mario

    The worst is probably De Sade.

    pedo s***offender

    I know exactly who you’re talking about and my brain still read this as Da Baby lol

  • Aug 4, 2021

    All kings

  • Aug 4, 2021

    Read OP's post like it was Lupe's verse in Words I Never Said

    Limbaugh is a racist, Glenn Beck is a racist
    Gaza Strip was getting bombed, Obama didn't say s***

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    Cajun Fries

    nah that is cap. We just live in white societies that’s why you’ll hear about C***philosophers before you hear about African or middle eastern ones.

    They have existed everywhere

    Black philosophers have been white washed too. Socrates, Marcus Aurelius and even Roman Emperors such as Septimius Severus. Somewhat agree with both sides but things have been whitewashed or refashioned to the current leaderships liking.

    @Skrilla

  • Aug 4, 2021
    Bestowed

    Black philosophers have been white washed too. Socrates, Marcus Aurelius and even Roman Emperors such as Septimius Severus. Somewhat agree with both sides but things have been whitewashed or refashioned to the current leaderships liking.

    @Skrilla

    I’m not deep into single philosophers but that seems within regular colonizer territory to do that type of s***

  • Super Mario

    Shakespeare criticized slavery and colonialism in The Tempest a hundred years before Kant was playing with his little pink toes.

  • applying today's values on people from decades ago makes no sense

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    Super Mario

    Even though he aint a philosoph Martin Luther also someone whos still admired in germany, but was full scum againt jews

    Kinda ironic how MLK changed his name after him, even though he was a f***ing lunatic.

    "Michael king" just doesn't have the same ring to it though

  • Aug 4, 2021

    No ones perfect

  • Aug 4, 2021
    Super Mario

    Stop

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    In 1000 years our norms will be out of date too

    Besides it's about their ideas not their personal lives, ur on twitter too much

    And even their ideas have to be placed in the context of their times

  • Aug 4, 2021

    Emmanuel c***

  • Aug 4, 2021
    Zach LaBeam

    "Michael king" just doesn't have the same ring to it though

    Ion know if the world could handle 4 Mikes

    King
    Jordan
    Jackson
    Tyson
    Irving!

  • Aug 4, 2021
    Level 5 Goblin

    I am going to hold Aristotle accountable

    I’m gonna need a full Twitter apology.

  • Aug 4, 2021

    So many Philosophers were actually scum and finally on streaming services

  • Aug 4, 2021
    Yuzzy

    It's a negative to be sure but don't think it should impact how we view them and their work. A lesser issue, but in the future (or even now) 20th century views on animals will be considered speciesist, but for me its unfair to judge them for that

    One could claim that they are meant to be the greatest thinkers, and ought to be able to predict societies changing values but thats a bit unfair I think, their job is to reason about the world and come to conclusions, its unsurprising some of these conclusions are offensive to modern values

    Imagine how people of the future will look back on us if manufacturing of goods becomes fully autonomous.

    “You mean, people bought s*** that they KNEW was produced by enslaved children?!”

  • Aug 4, 2021

    People are complex. They could be racists and bad morally while still being good philosophers

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    Yeah I think the point is to debate their contributions to philosophy and not to worship their persons as infallible.

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    those two things are prerequisites to being great

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    Jesus. Solomon. Sirach.

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    Jesus

  • ARCADE GOON

    In 1000 years our norms will be out of date too

    Besides it's about their ideas not their personal lives, ur on twitter too much

    And even their ideas have to be placed in the context of their times

    agreed although many of the ideas are applicable today but only when you look at the basis of them. granted depends who we're talking about