Nietszche spent decades being a philologist just to realize what a waste of time it was later in his life. Your reverence for authority and consensus is the very thing that's holding you back, and the very thing you nurture with your
ecclesial studies of "the greeks".
I as a NEET with FEET NEED to READ
Samuel Martin
Carter Evans
>one person thought studying the past was a waste. it is therefore always a waste.
Oh, okay. What groundbreaking projects are you working on due to your truly enlightened mind?
Leo Murphy
I study biology at the University.
Eli Gray
Oh, so nothing? You're little more than a child pontificating as if you're some all-knowing higher being? Huh..
Well, if that's what makes you feel good, go ahead.
Jace Nelson
>What is actually like that is simply consuming the writings of past philosophers because they were highly esteemmed in the past. It's like doing violence on own sense of critical thinking.
Implying you impair your critical thinking by reading, be careful I'm doing violence to your critical thinking right now.
>"Logic" is simply the way the human mind works,
Wrong, what are fallacies, biases, cognitive problems, delusions, etc. If logic is how the human mind works than you must have a very warped sense of what logic is.
>Often times great geniuses have been suppressed and persecuted by their "peers" for challenging the consensual ideas.
Example?
>Reading Plato is tantamount to hitting yourself in the head with a rod.
Implying harm, why are you even on the internet? You should be in a cave away from civilization because every thought, every line of speech is an attack on your 'critical thinking'. Because without thoughts of others you and others won't see the flaws in your critical thinking skills.
>It cannot be seriously questioned as an questioning itself, requires there to be a reality containing a questioner.
Thus is merely an assumption, a useful assumption maybe, but an assumption non the less. Our observations of the quantum realm has major philosophical repercussions, observations have influence in the behavior of particles in the microcosm, how this translates to the macrocosm isn't entirely clear to me but is fascinating non the less.
>It's like wanting to invent the wheel all over.
Isn't that what you want? Disregard the past and start from an empty mind? Now you're confusing me.
Jose Moore
You are 22. Not really in a position to call someone a child for daring to criticize your idols. Studying how the human body works is about a million times more relevant than reading the fantasies of long winded dimwits like Plato or Aquinas.
Jordan Garcia
>implying the decades being a philologist hasn't influenced him into writing the most influential and groundbreaking philosophical works.
Kevin Collins
I bet you disregard every previous biologist in existence, sit in class with earphones and dissect the bodies of the people you murder in dark alleyways. I mean you have to keep your critical thinking skills intact.
Joshua Johnson
>Implying you impair your critical thinking by reading
You do when you continue to read something, despite your instincts telling you it is worthless, simply because it is of a acclaimed author.
>Wrong, what are fallacies, biases, cognitive problems, delusions, etc.
They are results of your thoughts lacking in coherency. It is a misconception that you need to be taught how to think correctly. Thinking correctly is the trait we evolved. Thinking incorrectly is the result of having done violence to your own mind.
>Example?
Galileo.
>Implying harm, why are you even on the internet?
Being on the internet doesn't necessitate that I read anything I don't want to.
>Thus is merely an assumption
No, it's not. It is something the follows by definition.
>Isn't that what you want?
In the past, genuine thinkers struggled to overcome the oppression of the metaphysical idiots. Today, there is no need for you to do the same, when you can simply reap the benefits of those past thinkers' work.
Levi Edwards
I'm not even the person you were originally replying to. I am 31 and don't 'idolize' anyone, just found your post particularly pompous and foolish. I thought an ELITE intellect such as yourself would be able to recognize the difference in posting styles between two people. I guarantee I understand how the human body works better than an undergrad bio student LOL.