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Pretty much all “philosophers” between Plato and nietzche sucked

Exceptions for Kant and Hume because those guys were just so...
Glassy beta space
  09/06/24
I acknowledge him
blathering dashing marketing idea center
  09/06/24
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Glassy beta space
  09/09/24
lol. ran here to say hume was ok and kant must be acknowledg...
appetizing feces
  09/06/24
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Glassy beta space
  09/06/24
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  09/09/24
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Glassy beta space
  06/10/25
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Grizzly Institution
  06/10/25
not like they were writing during times of war and tribulati...
onyx razzle chapel private investor
  09/06/24
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Glassy beta space
  09/06/24
(not a Michael Psellus scholar)
hairraiser self-centered mood
  09/09/24
Rousseau Hobbes Kant Aristotle Aquinas Burke Die retard
abusive business firm newt
  09/09/24
Rousseau is bad, but the others are CR
Aquamarine orchestra pit tattoo
  09/09/24
Even so he is fun to read
abusive business firm newt
  09/09/24
Rosseau would be picketing for kids to be forcibly castrated...
Glassy beta space
  09/09/24
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Grizzly Institution
  06/10/25
Kant makes you dumber for having read him. The only reason h...
Blue arousing multi-billionaire
  09/09/24
Kant's 180
Grizzly Institution
  06/10/25
great post MPA
Curious fanboi
  06/10/25
Sorta cr except that Nietzsche cribbed heavily off earlier G...
Blue arousing multi-billionaire
  09/09/24
lol @ nietzsche
disgusting idiot
  09/09/24
Aristotle is the most underrated philosopher, and he's ranke...
ebony motley toaster forum
  09/09/24
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abusive business firm newt
  09/09/24
he was ok had some cr stuff, some silly stuff
Glassy beta space
  09/10/24
Confucius is the most underrated, no contest
Blue arousing multi-billionaire
  06/10/25
This is probably true but nobody likes to read Aristotle; pe...
Grizzly Institution
  06/10/25
Then only reason people read Kant at all is because he wrote...
Blue arousing multi-billionaire
  06/10/25
(Ghost of Hugo Grotius)
Grizzly Institution
  06/10/25
You're pretty fucking close to finding my Youtube channel.
Blue arousing multi-billionaire
  06/10/25
they all sucked, without exception
beady-eyed seedy hominid
  09/09/24
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Hairless drab market incel
  09/10/24
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disrespectful spot cuckoldry
  06/10/25
add heidegger to the list of Actually Good Philosophers, but...
Glassy beta space
  06/10/25
John Locke and Adam Smith created the modern world
Orchid dead friendly grandma
  06/10/25
Locke makes no sense if you actually read him.
Blue arousing multi-billionaire
  06/10/25
Have to do it in the original German
disrespectful spot cuckoldry
  06/10/25
Everyone with a brain wrote in Latin back then. Locke was a ...
Blue arousing multi-billionaire
  06/10/25
(Nietzsche)
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  06/10/25
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Curious fanboi
  06/10/25
Schopenhauer was the Last Word. Nietzche was just autistic c...
transparent 180 pervert foreskin
  06/10/25
this is the most juvenile misrepresentation of nietzsche i'v...
Glassy beta space
  06/10/25
How is it a misrepresentation?
transparent 180 pervert foreskin
  06/10/25
nietzsche was not a pessimist and neither was schopenhaur. t...
Glassy beta space
  06/10/25
Schopenhauer was absolutely a pessimist in the philosophical...
transparent 180 pervert foreskin
  06/10/25
there is no such thing as a "pessimist in the philosoph...
Glassy beta space
  06/10/25
Kinda like this retard shtick you’re running right now...
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  06/10/25


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Date: September 6th, 2024 2:42 PM
Author: Glassy beta space

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: blathering dashing marketing idea center

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: Glassy beta space



(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: appetizing feces

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: Glassy beta space



(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: Aquamarine orchestra pit tattoo



(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: Glassy beta space



(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: Grizzly Institution



(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: onyx razzle chapel private investor

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: Glassy beta space



(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: hairraiser self-centered mood

(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: abusive business firm newt

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: Aquamarine orchestra pit tattoo

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: abusive business firm newt

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: Glassy beta space

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: Grizzly Institution



(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: Blue arousing multi-billionaire

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: Grizzly Institution

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: Curious fanboi

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: Blue arousing multi-billionaire

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: disgusting idiot

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: ebony motley toaster forum

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: abusive business firm newt



(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: Glassy beta space

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: Blue arousing multi-billionaire

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: Grizzly Institution

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: Blue arousing multi-billionaire

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: Grizzly Institution

(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: Blue arousing multi-billionaire

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: beady-eyed seedy hominid

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: Hairless drab market incel



(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: disrespectful spot cuckoldry



(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: Glassy beta space

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: Orchid dead friendly grandma

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: Blue arousing multi-billionaire

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: disrespectful spot cuckoldry

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: Blue arousing multi-billionaire

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: red codepig

(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: Curious fanboi



(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: transparent 180 pervert foreskin

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: Glassy beta space

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: transparent 180 pervert foreskin

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: Glassy beta space

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: transparent 180 pervert foreskin

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: Glassy beta space

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: transparent 180 pervert foreskin

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)