Because a certain ex-painter was German and they believe reading old German philosophers signals intelligence. The only thing it truly signifies on this site is that you’re willing to get into flamewars with monkeys who regurgitate excerpts from Wikipedia and still somehow lose to them.
>>24712302 (OP)
It's the current final form of history as knowledge. Until we finally write a new philosophy nothing matters; and it doesn't seem this will happen any time soon.
>>24712325 >unequivocally
Intelligence is in understanding, not merely tracing the lines with glazed eyes. And even if you do understand, wasting hours debating Kant online with master-baiters does not signal intelligence. Signals desperation to be seen as smart, maybe.
>>24712352
You call it shitposting, but it’s obvious you need an outlet to satisfy what you can’t in real life. Otherwise, why waste energy that could be put towards your “life’s work?”
You can’t hide your disordered thinking. Hopefully you get through that patch and learn what is truly important.
>>24712383
coz I'm stressed and tired after work and just come here to talk shit for bit for mental recreation. then I'm off to the serious stuff. 4chan is just for the lulz.
>>24712446
Ah, the Phenomenology of Spirit of the Dark Ages. The original is better too. Eriugena and Saint Maximus out-Hegel Hegel, and Dante already has the better philosophy of history.
>>24712599
Man, you guys really make Schopenhauer seem like a midwit with some of these quotes, please stop, its embarassing, Schop actually has meaningful stuff to say...I hope
>>24712446 >Eriugena develops a Neoplatonic cosmology according to which the infinite, transcendent and 'unknown' God, who is beyond being and non-being, through a process of self-articulation, procession, or 'self-creation', proceeds from his divine 'darkness' or 'non-being' into the light of being, speaking the Word who is understood as Christ, and at the same timeless moment bringing forth the Primary Causes of all creation... He treats of the essentially dialectical relation between Creator and created, where God expresses Himself in creation and creation culminates in return to the divine.
Very beautiful and creative philosophies. A thousand years of thought crammed into a 25 year period, and they all knew each other and we have their letters. The idealists were the first philosophers to come to terms with modernity as such so they’re highly relevant, they talk about many of the conflicts that divide us now. Mostly they are brilliant thinkers, hard to describe the feel because the mere conclusions can be banal but they THOUGHT through things and reading them is a lovely experience, the most fun you can have with your clothes on.
