Just me or is philosophy actually a complete shitshow? When I was younger I really wanted to major in philosophy because I thought it was "learning to think real good about abstract stuff", but eventually found out it was "quoting other famous people's stuff at each other"
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I think novels and philosophy are fundamentally different, unfortunately, because a novel is art and philosophy is reasoning / logic And I'm not saying you couldn't come up with a novel, important philosophical argument. And you might face insecure quotes in response...
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What I'm saying is that if you haven't read the past 100 years of philosophy, it's next to impossible to know whether it's new or whether it's important because you don't know if it's already been done - or whether it commits a mistake on a first principles basis.
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