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Pretty much all “philosophers” between Plato and nietzche sucked

Exceptions for Kant and Hume because those guys were just so...
awkward topaz station
  09/06/24
I acknowledge him
cerebral background story
  09/06/24
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awkward topaz station
  09/09/24
lol. ran here to say hume was ok and kant must be acknowledg...
high-end glittery travel guidebook pocket flask
  09/06/24
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awkward topaz station
  09/06/24
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Idiotic incel
  09/09/24
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awkward topaz station
  06/10/25
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Talented home
  06/10/25
not like they were writing during times of war and tribulati...
Bearded Turdskin Party Of The First Part
  09/06/24
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awkward topaz station
  09/06/24
(not a Michael Psellus scholar)
Odious scarlet sex offender
  09/09/24
Rousseau Hobbes Kant Aristotle Aquinas Burke Die retard
chestnut titillating gaping tattoo
  09/09/24
Rousseau is bad, but the others are CR
Idiotic incel
  09/09/24
Even so he is fun to read
chestnut titillating gaping tattoo
  09/09/24
Rosseau would be picketing for kids to be forcibly castrated...
awkward topaz station
  09/09/24
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Talented home
  06/10/25
Kant makes you dumber for having read him. The only reason h...
lascivious impressive menage community account
  09/09/24
Kant's 180
Talented home
  06/10/25
great post MPA
Wonderful Smoky Mental Disorder
  06/10/25
Sorta cr except that Nietzsche cribbed heavily off earlier G...
lascivious impressive menage community account
  09/09/24
lol @ nietzsche
Carnelian dashing trump supporter toaster
  09/09/24
Aristotle is the most underrated philosopher, and he's ranke...
Curious stead
  09/09/24
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chestnut titillating gaping tattoo
  09/09/24
he was ok had some cr stuff, some silly stuff
awkward topaz station
  09/10/24
Confucius is the most underrated, no contest
lascivious impressive menage community account
  06/10/25
This is probably true but nobody likes to read Aristotle; pe...
Talented home
  06/10/25
Then only reason people read Kant at all is because he wrote...
lascivious impressive menage community account
  06/10/25
(Ghost of Hugo Grotius)
Talented home
  06/10/25
You're pretty fucking close to finding my Youtube channel.
lascivious impressive menage community account
  06/10/25
they all sucked, without exception
Geriatric spectacular patrolman hall
  09/09/24
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Beady-eyed range ape
  09/10/24
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Maniacal Dun Circlehead Associate
  06/10/25
add heidegger to the list of Actually Good Philosophers, but...
awkward topaz station
  06/10/25
John Locke and Adam Smith created the modern world
light business firm
  06/10/25
Locke makes no sense if you actually read him.
lascivious impressive menage community account
  06/10/25
Have to do it in the original German
Maniacal Dun Circlehead Associate
  06/10/25
Everyone with a brain wrote in Latin back then. Locke was a ...
lascivious impressive menage community account
  06/10/25
(Nietzsche)
puce weed whacker property
  06/10/25
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Wonderful Smoky Mental Disorder
  06/10/25
Schopenhauer was the Last Word. Nietzche was just autistic c...
Nofapping native dingle berry
  06/10/25
this is the most juvenile misrepresentation of nietzsche i'v...
awkward topaz station
  06/10/25
How is it a misrepresentation?
Nofapping native dingle berry
  06/10/25
nietzsche was not a pessimist and neither was schopenhaur. t...
awkward topaz station
  06/10/25
Schopenhauer was absolutely a pessimist in the philosophical...
Nofapping native dingle berry
  06/10/25
there is no such thing as a "pessimist in the philosoph...
awkward topaz station
  06/10/25
Kinda like this retard shtick you’re running right now...
Nofapping native dingle berry
  06/10/25


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Date: September 6th, 2024 2:42 PM
Author: awkward topaz station

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=2E#48057227)



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Date: September 6th, 2024 2:43 PM
Author: cerebral background story

I acknowledge him

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



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Date: September 9th, 2024 5:41 PM
Author: awkward topaz station



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



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Date: September 6th, 2024 3:18 PM
Author: high-end glittery travel guidebook pocket flask

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=2E#48057364)



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Date: September 6th, 2024 3:54 PM
Author: awkward topaz station



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



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Date: September 9th, 2024 5:52 PM
Author: Idiotic incel



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



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Date: June 10th, 2025 12:15 PM
Author: awkward topaz station



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



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Date: June 10th, 2025 2:14 PM
Author: Talented home



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



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Date: September 6th, 2024 4:06 PM
Author: Bearded Turdskin Party Of The First Part

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

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



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Date: September 6th, 2024 7:04 PM
Author: awkward topaz station



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



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Date: September 9th, 2024 5:42 PM
Author: Odious scarlet sex offender

(not a Michael Psellus scholar)

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



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Date: September 9th, 2024 5:45 PM
Author: chestnut titillating gaping tattoo

Rousseau Hobbes Kant Aristotle Aquinas Burke

Die retard

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



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Date: September 9th, 2024 5:52 PM
Author: Idiotic incel

Rousseau is bad, but the others are CR

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



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Date: September 9th, 2024 5:53 PM
Author: chestnut titillating gaping tattoo

Even so he is fun to read

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



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Date: September 9th, 2024 5:58 PM
Author: awkward topaz station

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=2E#48067446)



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Date: June 10th, 2025 2:14 PM
Author: Talented home



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



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Date: September 9th, 2024 6:03 PM
Author: lascivious impressive menage community account

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=2E#48067460)



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Date: June 10th, 2025 2:14 PM
Author: Talented home

Kant's 180

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



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Date: June 10th, 2025 2:15 PM
Author: Wonderful Smoky Mental Disorder

great post MPA

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



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Date: September 9th, 2024 5:48 PM
Author: lascivious impressive menage community account

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=2E#48067401)



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Date: September 9th, 2024 5:48 PM
Author: Carnelian dashing trump supporter toaster

lol @ nietzsche

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



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Date: September 9th, 2024 5:55 PM
Author: Curious stead

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=2E#48067429)



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Date: September 9th, 2024 5:55 PM
Author: chestnut titillating gaping tattoo



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



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Date: September 10th, 2024 2:32 PM
Author: awkward topaz station

he was ok

had some cr stuff, some silly stuff

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



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Date: June 10th, 2025 12:17 PM
Author: lascivious impressive menage community account

Confucius is the most underrated, no contest

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



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Date: June 10th, 2025 2:14 PM
Author: Talented home

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=2E#49002611)



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Date: June 10th, 2025 2:18 PM
Author: lascivious impressive menage community account

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=2E#49002621)



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Date: June 10th, 2025 2:18 PM
Author: Talented home

(Ghost of Hugo Grotius)

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



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Date: June 10th, 2025 2:19 PM
Author: lascivious impressive menage community account

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

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



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Date: September 9th, 2024 5:56 PM
Author: Geriatric spectacular patrolman hall

they all sucked, without exception

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



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Date: September 10th, 2024 2:33 PM
Author: Beady-eyed range ape



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



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Date: June 10th, 2025 12:19 PM
Author: Maniacal Dun Circlehead Associate



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



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Date: June 10th, 2025 12:14 PM
Author: awkward topaz station

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=2E#49002230)



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Date: June 10th, 2025 12:24 PM
Author: light business firm

John Locke and Adam Smith created the modern world

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



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Date: June 10th, 2025 12:30 PM
Author: lascivious impressive menage community account

Locke makes no sense if you actually read him.

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



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Date: June 10th, 2025 12:30 PM
Author: Maniacal Dun Circlehead Associate

Have to do it in the original German

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



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Date: June 10th, 2025 12:32 PM
Author: lascivious impressive menage community account

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=2E#49002287)



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Date: June 10th, 2025 2:15 PM
Author: puce weed whacker property

(Nietzsche)

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



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Date: June 10th, 2025 2:36 PM
Author: Wonderful Smoky Mental Disorder



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



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Date: June 10th, 2025 2:29 PM
Author: Nofapping native dingle berry

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=2E#49002637)



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Date: June 10th, 2025 2:32 PM
Author: awkward topaz station

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=2E#49002645)



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Date: June 10th, 2025 2:36 PM
Author: Nofapping native dingle berry

How is it a misrepresentation?

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



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Date: June 10th, 2025 2:39 PM
Author: awkward topaz station

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=2E#49002666)



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Date: June 10th, 2025 2:41 PM
Author: Nofapping native dingle berry

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=2E#49002667)



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Date: June 10th, 2025 2:49 PM
Author: awkward topaz station

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=2E#49002680)



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Date: June 10th, 2025 2:52 PM
Author: Nofapping native dingle berry

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=2E#49002682)