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Pretty much all “philosophers” between Plato and nietzche sucked

Exceptions for Kant and Hume because those guys were just so...
gold stage mad cow disease
  09/06/24
I acknowledge him
Galvanic ultramarine shrine lettuce
  09/06/24
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gold stage mad cow disease
  09/09/24
lol. ran here to say hume was ok and kant must be acknowledg...
umber location gaping
  09/06/24
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gold stage mad cow disease
  09/06/24
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lilac vivacious site
  09/09/24
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gold stage mad cow disease
  06/10/25
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embarrassed to the bone excitant gas station
  06/10/25
not like they were writing during times of war and tribulati...
lavender passionate church building pervert
  09/06/24
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gold stage mad cow disease
  09/06/24
(not a Michael Psellus scholar)
Fragrant hominid rigpig
  09/09/24
Rousseau Hobbes Kant Aristotle Aquinas Burke Die retard
Godawful wine incel psychic
  09/09/24
Rousseau is bad, but the others are CR
lilac vivacious site
  09/09/24
Even so he is fun to read
Godawful wine incel psychic
  09/09/24
Rosseau would be picketing for kids to be forcibly castrated...
gold stage mad cow disease
  09/09/24
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embarrassed to the bone excitant gas station
  06/10/25
Kant makes you dumber for having read him. The only reason h...
clear center gay wizard
  09/09/24
Kant's 180
embarrassed to the bone excitant gas station
  06/10/25
great post MPA
Glassy French Chef Base
  06/10/25
Sorta cr except that Nietzsche cribbed heavily off earlier G...
clear center gay wizard
  09/09/24
lol @ nietzsche
Bipolar Chrome Stead
  09/09/24
Aristotle is the most underrated philosopher, and he's ranke...
Violet vibrant wrinkle
  09/09/24
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Godawful wine incel psychic
  09/09/24
he was ok had some cr stuff, some silly stuff
gold stage mad cow disease
  09/10/24
Confucius is the most underrated, no contest
clear center gay wizard
  06/10/25
This is probably true but nobody likes to read Aristotle; pe...
embarrassed to the bone excitant gas station
  06/10/25
Then only reason people read Kant at all is because he wrote...
clear center gay wizard
  06/10/25
(Ghost of Hugo Grotius)
embarrassed to the bone excitant gas station
  06/10/25
You're pretty fucking close to finding my Youtube channel.
clear center gay wizard
  06/10/25
they all sucked, without exception
titillating hideous abode half-breed
  09/09/24
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bronze office
  09/10/24
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Rough-skinned puppy toaster
  06/10/25
add heidegger to the list of Actually Good Philosophers, but...
gold stage mad cow disease
  06/10/25
John Locke and Adam Smith created the modern world
Greedy Dopamine
  06/10/25
Locke makes no sense if you actually read him.
clear center gay wizard
  06/10/25
Have to do it in the original German
Rough-skinned puppy toaster
  06/10/25
Everyone with a brain wrote in Latin back then. Locke was a ...
clear center gay wizard
  06/10/25
(Nietzsche)
laughsome stag film scourge upon the earth
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Glassy French Chef Base
  06/10/25
Schopenhauer was the Last Word. Nietzche was just autistic c...
Green boyish box office crotch
  06/10/25
this is the most juvenile misrepresentation of nietzsche i'v...
gold stage mad cow disease
  06/10/25
How is it a misrepresentation?
Green boyish box office crotch
  06/10/25
nietzsche was not a pessimist and neither was schopenhaur. t...
gold stage mad cow disease
  06/10/25
Schopenhauer was absolutely a pessimist in the philosophical...
Green boyish box office crotch
  06/10/25
there is no such thing as a "pessimist in the philosoph...
gold stage mad cow disease
  06/10/25
Kinda like this retard shtick you’re running right now...
Green boyish box office crotch
  06/10/25


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Date: September 6th, 2024 2:42 PM
Author: gold stage mad cow disease

Exceptions for Kant and Hume because those guys were just so fucking smart they have to be Acknowledged

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5589931&forum_id=2:#48057227)



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Date: September 6th, 2024 2:43 PM
Author: Galvanic ultramarine shrine lettuce

I acknowledge him

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5589931&forum_id=2:#48057229)



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Date: September 9th, 2024 5:41 PM
Author: gold stage mad cow disease



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5589931&forum_id=2:#48067373)



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Date: September 6th, 2024 3:18 PM
Author: umber location gaping

lol. ran here to say hume was ok and kant must be acknowledged, at the very least

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5589931&forum_id=2:#48057364)



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Date: September 6th, 2024 3:54 PM
Author: gold stage mad cow disease



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5589931&forum_id=2:#48057517)



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Date: September 9th, 2024 5:52 PM
Author: lilac vivacious site



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5589931&forum_id=2:#48067414)



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Date: June 10th, 2025 12:15 PM
Author: gold stage mad cow disease



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5589931&forum_id=2:#49002231)



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Date: June 10th, 2025 2:14 PM
Author: embarrassed to the bone excitant gas station



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5589931&forum_id=2:#49002613)



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Date: September 6th, 2024 4:06 PM
Author: lavender passionate church building pervert

not like they were writing during times of war and tribulation or anything

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5589931&forum_id=2:#48057562)



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Date: September 6th, 2024 7:04 PM
Author: gold stage mad cow disease



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5589931&forum_id=2:#48058298)



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Date: September 9th, 2024 5:42 PM
Author: Fragrant hominid rigpig

(not a Michael Psellus scholar)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5589931&forum_id=2:#48067379)



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Date: September 9th, 2024 5:45 PM
Author: Godawful wine incel psychic

Rousseau Hobbes Kant Aristotle Aquinas Burke

Die retard

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5589931&forum_id=2:#48067395)



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Date: September 9th, 2024 5:52 PM
Author: lilac vivacious site

Rousseau is bad, but the others are CR

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5589931&forum_id=2:#48067418)



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Date: September 9th, 2024 5:53 PM
Author: Godawful wine incel psychic

Even so he is fun to read

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5589931&forum_id=2:#48067423)



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Date: September 9th, 2024 5:58 PM
Author: gold stage mad cow disease

Rosseau would be picketing for kids to be forcibly castrated and turned into trannies over open borders if he was alive today

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5589931&forum_id=2:#48067446)



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Date: June 10th, 2025 2:14 PM
Author: embarrassed to the bone excitant gas station



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5589931&forum_id=2:#49002610)



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Date: September 9th, 2024 6:03 PM
Author: clear center gay wizard

Kant makes you dumber for having read him. The only reason he ever got any attention in the first place was because of the era when he was writing. Earlier authors did it better, just not during the "age of enlightenment." People got hooked on Kant because he seemed "modern" at the time. "Finally something new after 200 years of reading other Germans!"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5589931&forum_id=2:#48067460)



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Date: June 10th, 2025 2:14 PM
Author: embarrassed to the bone excitant gas station

Kant's 180

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5589931&forum_id=2:#49002612)



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Date: June 10th, 2025 2:15 PM
Author: Glassy French Chef Base

great post MPA

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5589931&forum_id=2:#49002617)



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Date: September 9th, 2024 5:48 PM
Author: clear center gay wizard

Sorta cr except that Nietzsche cribbed heavily off earlier German thinkers who were never widely read or even translated to English. I think it's more fair to say that Plato is counterbalanced by a long tradition of tradition of German thought that was expressed most recently by Nietzsche.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5589931&forum_id=2:#48067401)



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Date: September 9th, 2024 5:48 PM
Author: Bipolar Chrome Stead

lol @ nietzsche

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5589931&forum_id=2:#48067403)



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Date: September 9th, 2024 5:55 PM
Author: Violet vibrant wrinkle

Aristotle is the most underrated philosopher, and he's ranked #2. This is a really dumb poast.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5589931&forum_id=2:#48067429)



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Date: September 9th, 2024 5:55 PM
Author: Godawful wine incel psychic



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5589931&forum_id=2:#48067431)



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Date: September 10th, 2024 2:32 PM
Author: gold stage mad cow disease

he was ok

had some cr stuff, some silly stuff

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5589931&forum_id=2:#48070655)



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Date: June 10th, 2025 12:17 PM
Author: clear center gay wizard

Confucius is the most underrated, no contest

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5589931&forum_id=2:#49002239)



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Date: June 10th, 2025 2:14 PM
Author: embarrassed to the bone excitant gas station

This is probably true but nobody likes to read Aristotle; people would rather read Kant than read Aristotle

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5589931&forum_id=2:#49002611)



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Date: June 10th, 2025 2:18 PM
Author: clear center gay wizard

Then only reason people read Kant at all is because he wrote so recently, the equivalent of having "NY Times Bestseller" on your book cover. It's assumed that any "modern" thinker has already absorbed all previous knowledge and is improving upon it. It never occurs to anyone that Hugo Grotius might have been more insightful than Kant, simply because his books were already old by the time Kant start writing.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5589931&forum_id=2:#49002621)



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Date: June 10th, 2025 2:18 PM
Author: embarrassed to the bone excitant gas station

(Ghost of Hugo Grotius)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5589931&forum_id=2:#49002622)



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Date: June 10th, 2025 2:19 PM
Author: clear center gay wizard

You're pretty fucking close to finding my Youtube channel.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5589931&forum_id=2:#49002624)



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Date: September 9th, 2024 5:56 PM
Author: titillating hideous abode half-breed

they all sucked, without exception

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5589931&forum_id=2:#48067434)



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Date: September 10th, 2024 2:33 PM
Author: bronze office



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5589931&forum_id=2:#48070667)



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Date: June 10th, 2025 12:19 PM
Author: Rough-skinned puppy toaster



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5589931&forum_id=2:#49002249)



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Date: June 10th, 2025 12:14 PM
Author: gold stage mad cow disease

add heidegger to the list of Actually Good Philosophers, but he came after nietzsche, so the OP still stands

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5589931&forum_id=2:#49002230)



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Date: June 10th, 2025 12:24 PM
Author: Greedy Dopamine

John Locke and Adam Smith created the modern world

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5589931&forum_id=2:#49002261)



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Date: June 10th, 2025 12:30 PM
Author: clear center gay wizard

Locke makes no sense if you actually read him.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5589931&forum_id=2:#49002277)



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Date: June 10th, 2025 12:30 PM
Author: Rough-skinned puppy toaster

Have to do it in the original German

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5589931&forum_id=2:#49002280)



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Date: June 10th, 2025 12:32 PM
Author: clear center gay wizard

Everyone with a brain wrote in Latin back then. Locke was a physician who could only write in English and he didn't even get his medical degree until he was in his 40s

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5589931&forum_id=2:#49002287)



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Date: June 10th, 2025 2:15 PM
Author: laughsome stag film scourge upon the earth

(Nietzsche)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5589931&forum_id=2:#49002615)



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Date: June 10th, 2025 2:36 PM
Author: Glassy French Chef Base



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5589931&forum_id=2:#49002654)



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Date: June 10th, 2025 2:29 PM
Author: Green boyish box office crotch

Schopenhauer was the Last Word. Nietzche was just autistic cope.

Ligotti put it best:

"For Schopenhauer, the fallout from his negations has been that he takes up far less floor space in the museum of modern thought than does his fellow German and antagonist Friedrich Nietzsche. Schopenhauer promises nothing but extinction for the individual following the postmortem recall of his “true nature” as a tiny parcel of the personless and ever-roiling Will.

Nietzsche borrows from religion and sermonizes that, although we will not be delivered into the afterlives of his ecclesiastic models, we must be willing in spirit to reprise this life again and again to its tiniest detail for all eternity. As unappealing as repeating our lives even once may seem to some of us, we are not the ones who make a writer’s reputation.

...

Among other things, Nietzsche is famed as a promoter of human survival, just as long as enough of the survivors follow his lead as a perverted pessimist—one who has consecrated himself to loving life exactly because it is the worst thing imaginable, a sadomasochistic joyride through the twists and turns of being unto death...This irregular pessimism is the antinomy of the “normal” pessimism of Schopenhauer, who is philosophy’s red-headed stepchild because he is unequivocally on record as having said that being alive is not—and can never be—all right...For these offenses, his stature is rather low compared to that of other major thinkers, as is that of all philosophers who bear an unconcealed grudge against life.

Although both Schopenhauer and Nietzsche spoke only to an audience of atheists, Schopenhauer erred—from a public relations stance—by not according human beings any special status among the world of things organic and inorganic or trucking in any meaning to our existence. Contra Schopenhauer, Nietzsche not only took religious readings of life seriously enough to deprecate them at great length, but was hell-bent on replacing them with goal-oriented values and a sense of meaning that even nonbelievers beg for like dogs—some project in which individuals may lose (or find) themselves.

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In confederacy with those whom he believed himself to have surpassed in the race toward an undefined destiny, Nietzsche did what he could to keep the human pageant strolling toward … wherever. Even though he had the clarity of mind to recognize that values did not grow on trees nor were writ on stone tablets, he duped himself into thinking that it was possible to create them. But how these values would be created and what they would be he could not say. After demolishing the life-rejecting faith of the Crucified, Nietzsche handed down his own commandments through the Antichrist-like messiah Zarathustra, who was groomed to take over Christianity’s administration of the Western world and keep it afloat with counterfeit funds. Carrying around a sackload of unrealities from here to the eternal return, perhaps no one has ever been as “normal” as Nietzsche."

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5589931&forum_id=2:#49002637)



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Date: June 10th, 2025 2:32 PM
Author: gold stage mad cow disease

this is the most juvenile misrepresentation of nietzsche i've ever seen. worse than shitlibs, even

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5589931&forum_id=2:#49002645)



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Date: June 10th, 2025 2:36 PM
Author: Green boyish box office crotch

How is it a misrepresentation?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5589931&forum_id=2:#49002655)



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Date: June 10th, 2025 2:39 PM
Author: gold stage mad cow disease

nietzsche was not a pessimist and neither was schopenhaur. these are projections made by readers who don't understand them and who want to repurpose them for their own ends

shitlibs do the same thing with both these authors. there are actually shitlib "nietzsche scholars" and "schopenhaur scholars" who fervently maintain that both of these guys were dyed in the wool shitlibs. not flame

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5589931&forum_id=2:#49002666)



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Date: June 10th, 2025 2:41 PM
Author: Green boyish box office crotch

Schopenhauer was absolutely a pessimist in the philosophical sense, WTF are you talking about.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5589931&forum_id=2:#49002667)



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Date: June 10th, 2025 2:49 PM
Author: gold stage mad cow disease

there is no such thing as a "pessimist in the philosophical sense." if such a human existed, they'd immediately commit suicide

all "philosophical pessimists" - schopenhaur included - are not actually pessimists about the human condition. they're just running shtick. schopenhaur lived a long and full and successful and healthy life and had many friends and romantic companions

everyone who is smart and philosophically inclined develops their own philosophical shtick. "pessimism" is just one of many possible shticks. schopenhaur had a lot of useful ideas which is why he was held in such high regard by nietzsche and others

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5589931&forum_id=2:#49002680)



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Date: June 10th, 2025 2:52 PM
Author: Green boyish box office crotch

Kinda like this retard shtick you’re running right now? Hmm if you say so champ.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5589931&forum_id=2:#49002682)