Thread 24475213

Philosophers aren’t infallible and neither are their texts, it’s not word of god so you can take what you want out of them and throw out aspects you think are dumb or replace them. What are some schools of thought you mostly agree with but some parts of it you think are nonsense and you replace with something else?

>>24475213 (OP)
Stoicism + Christian God is the best combo.

>>24475213 (OP)
Socrates drank hemlock because he refused to be exiled and seen as guilty. i'm pretty sure they've always been fallible.

>>24475213 (OP)
i do this for literally every philosopher
>Plato
Love his work, except his political views
>Aristotle
His ethics is interlaced with real wisdom like the golden mean, happiness as the aim of life, ect. But his writing style itself is a bit rigid, and he was a bit racist and sexist.
>Descartes
Excellent skeptic, horrid theologian
>Stoics
Excellent ethics, hate the lowkey determinism
>Spinoza
one of the greatest writing styles i have ever seen, but hes a determinist
>Kant
Love his views on both ethics and epistemology, not easy to read though
>Hume
Correct about everything, great writing style, no flaws, he won

>>24475227
Where is Epictetus?

>>24475213 (OP)
I loathe Behaviorism but I find it useful, same with French Nietzscheanism (Foucault, etc). Hume is horrible otherwise but he's on point about moral psychology. I have a tendency towards Thomistic muscular Christianity, if one must ask. just finished writing another article a bit ago.

>>24475213 (OP)
I don't buy Stoic metaphysics, the whole "everything's a body + pneuma but also stuff subsists that doesn't exist" stuff, I'm more Neoplatonist on that.

>>24475352
hes a stoic bro........

>>24475213 (OP)
a lot of the ideas that philosphers had are so basic that if they didnt say it someone eventually would have.

>>24475227
this is very agreeable

>>24476197
like there is a chance tou could accidentally teach yoursekf stoicism without studying it because that's how basic some of this shit is

>>24475424
>I loath behaviorism
Why so, anon?