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Still a Youth

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  • SpheralBloom:
    MEMBER HELLO
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  • handoferis:
    https://forum.agoraroad.com/index.php?attachments/pf2lq4q-jpg.112561/ time to continue going through my old files
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  • SophiaHaven:
    Also, it's really hard to write pretty verse with strict definitions (; w ; )
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  • SpheralBloom:
    Digital Cheese said:
    Are we going to Athens or Rome?
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    I'm not a war boi U
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  • SophiaHaven:
    handoferis said:
    https://forum.agoraroad.com/index.php?attachments/pf2lq4q-jpg.112561/ time to continue going through my old files
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    ^^ Case in point on the power of varied terminology
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  • SpheralBloom:
    AH TYPO
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  • SpheralBloom:
    my life is OVER T-T
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  • Member:
    Do you really need to read primary texts to be well versed in philosophy or can you just rely on second hand information
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  • Member:
    Reading the primary text is always boring
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  • SpheralBloom:
    Primary text is where u get the REAL scoop
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  • SpheralBloom:
    But yea they're rlly boring
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  • handoferis:
    https://forum.agoraroad.com/index.php?attachments/wfwjqvb-jpg.112562/
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  • BarnSwallow:
    oh man thats spooky
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  • Still a Youth:
    Idk i studied history before i figured i like philosophy so it was already ingraines in my to read primary texts. Secondary texts are usually sufficent for general understandings but some would go as far as to say you dont even truly understand a philosopher unless you read them in their native language
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  • CROCKPOT BROTHSOAKER:
    evening cool beans
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  • SophiaHaven:
    Member said:
    Do you really need to read primary texts to be well versed in philosophy or can you just rely on second hand information
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    I mean... you can, but it's like trying to build a house on top of shoddy foundations. It might be fine, or the cracks in your initial understanding may lead to enormous wastes of time and confusion.
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  • SpheralBloom:
    His skeletal dick is doing the thing where it changes it's directory XD
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  • SophiaHaven:
    Although, in fairness, I will probably only ever rely on whatever other people tell me Kant is saying.
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  • Digital Cheese:
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    Reading the primary text is always boring
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    Primary texts are superior generally for more than just a quick look over the topic to see if you're interested, even more so if its a language you dont natively speak (such as Latin)
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  • Still a Youth:
    Kant is a bad writer
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  • handoferis:
    https://forum.agoraroad.com/index.php?attachments/4943946876_3a3d347699-jpg.112563/
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  • Member:
    Still a Youth said:
    Idk i studied history before i figured i like philosophy so it was already ingraines in my to read primary texts. Secondary texts are usually sufficent for general understandings but some would go as far as to say you dont even truly understand a philosopher unless you read them in their native language
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    At that point you're trying to tap into a niche that's inhabited by like 5 people
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  • Still a Youth:
    Derek parfit said somewhere that we can never dismiss philisophy with bad writing, cause theres always Kant
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  • Member:
    SophiaHaven said:
    I mean... you can, but it's like trying to build a house on top of shoddy foundations. It might be fine, or the cracks in your initial understanding may lead to enormous wastes of time and confusion.
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    I mean the problem is that I don't want to waste my time with a bad philosopher
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  • SophiaHaven:
    Jokes aside, once you get into the nitty gritty of a subject you're deeply interested in, and whose grandest and most fundamental questions you want to attempt to understand or even answer, you learn very quickly to never trust other people's misunderstandings, and to instead go directly to the purest sources of information. Simple application of knowledge is usually resistant to minor confusions or imperfect analysis, but a grand and sweeping overview of a discipline needs you to be absolutely clear-eyed about everything.
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      SophiaHaven: Jokes aside, once you get into the nitty gritty of a subject you're deeply interested in, and...