[b]Jan Mieszkowski
Kant: Don’t lie.
Hegel: Don’t steal.
Schopenhauer: Don’t underestimate the power of despair.
Nietzsche: Don’t make me laugh.[/b]
Too close to call?
At the pinnacle of wisdom you become
325 BCE: a philosopher king
1781: a tutor to the rich
1910: a Cambridge don
2018: an insufferable promoter of your Twitter feed
Though nowhere near as insufferable as some of us here are.
[b]Why should I study philosophy?
- To avoid law school
- To avoid med school
- To avoid business school
- Pirated PDFs of Spinoza and Hume abound on the interwebs[/b]
Or, sure, for the sheer joy of it.
Science: This
History: This then that
Literature: This means that
Philosophy: This therefore that
Economics: I’ll give you this for that
Politics: I’ll keep this and take that
Though not necessarily in that order.
Schopenhauer: We’re doomed
Beckett: We’re hopelessly doomed
Kafka: We’re doomed beyond hope and doom
Camus: Your collective optimism is nauseating
Of course Camus was a fucking genius.
Living “off the grid” means
2010: the wifi is weak in your closet
2014: you once went outside without your cellphone
2016: you took off your Apple Watch during surgery
2018: your hair dryer isn’t Alexa-enabled
Anyone here [besides me] even more off the grid than that?