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According to Robin Blackburn, a preeminent historian of the Atlantic slave trade, “[Locke] must certainly be accounted one of the fathers of English colonial slavery” (The Making of New World Slavery)

I can confirm that Hegel is an incredibly difficult read.

https://www.amazon.com/Phenomenology-Spirit-G-W-Hegel/dp/0198245971/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=hegel+phenomenology+of+spirit&qid=1620585962&sprefix=hegel+&sr=8-1

This version has helpful notes in the back, I also used sparknotes extensively, but yes, it was still incredibly difficult.

Louis Althusser, famous Marxist intellectual, wrote Machiavelli and Us.

Antonio Gramsci's The Modern Prince

Both give Marxist interpretations of Machiavelli

Then there are contemporary philosophers like John McCormick, who is not a Marxist, but his readings of Machiavelli come pretty close and to me seem totally compatible.

This is very good, it's totally crossed referenced, it covers each topic in reasonable detail so you get a good understanding of key points. But doesn't go overboard, covers all key themes in philosophy.

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TFW u are trapped in Samsara and struggle endlessly for vain trophies, never once attaining a sense of contentment while enduring fascist action for action's sake.

behold, a pen

Similar concepts and thought experiments are explored in The Righteous Mind by Johnathan Haidt. Really interesting stuff. We have very little control over what we deem moral and immoral.

Informal fallacies are logical fallacies. They're just about premise and not structure. A bad syllogism on good grounds is what you're referring to, which is a logical fallacy, but a good syllogism with a false premise is also a logical fallacy.

I recommend the following book as a primer, but it has apparently gotten prohibitively expensive in recent years.

https://www.amazon.com/Logic-Art-Defining-Reasoning-2nd/dp/0135399998/ref=pd_lpo_1?pd_rd_i=0135399998&psc=1

Awesome. That's great. I'm glad he helped you. Just because it helped you doesn't mean it would help everyone. It

Being against non-monogamy and using the example of your son telling you they are cheating on their partner just doesn't seem like he's saying "well, this is what has helped people the most, why not give it a shot?" At least to me. It sounds like he's saying "this is the objective correct answer for everyone."

I may be misremembering or misunderstood, but I believe the point you were trying to make was that monogamy WAS the correct for everyone and that history has proven this was so. That society has been monogamous for a long time (two points I don't necessarily agree with). This, again, does not sound like a "well why don't you try it out."

Also, not sure if I agree that one should be against radicalism period. Full stop. All resistance fighters are, by definition, radicals. So French Resistance during the Nazi Occupation and the Founding Fathers would both be examples of radicalism.

Don't get me wrong. I don't think "radicalism" in and of itself is good. Any philosophy should be criticized on its principles, not by blanket terminology. Now that we're on the topic though, does Peterson have any talks/essays/whatever on the other side of the spectrum? The "radical right" as it were. That might be an interesting perspective.

Side note: I also don't believe nihilism is always a bad thing, it can be pretty freeing for some of those with anxiety and depression.

The argument comes from the fact that philosophy and religion as separate concepts come from the west, while in many eastern traditions, there wasn’t a distinction in that way.

So, parts of them are definitely religious, but other parts are definitely philosophy. A lot of times the religious beliefs come after the philosophical.

For example, there are many different kind of Buddhism. It is a vastly diverse religion. Some forms are very clearly religious, taking the Buddha as a supernatural figure, believing in gods, and very serious belief in reincarnation. Other forms are very clearly philosophy, and can fit in with the western traditions of ethics and metaphysics. Both of these can be found in the same places, and they can also be combined. Buddhism doesn’t require belief in reincarnation, but it doesn’t forbid it either.

One person specifically whom I consider a philosopher is Nāgārjuna. He wrote “Root Verses on the Middle Way” (Mūlamadhyamakakārikā). It’s kind of phenomenalism. If you’re interested, there’s a great translation and commentary by Siderits and Katsura. https://www.amazon.com/Nagarjunas-Middle-Way-Mulamadhyamakakarika-Classics/dp/1614290504

Also, philosophy of religion in Europe was a huge part of the philosophical canon, which is basically arguing about Christianity. If that can be accepted, why can’t religion-based philosophy from other places be accepted? Or we can get rid of both.

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Critical theory is neo marxist. Do you deny this? Delgado et al. were marxists.

I think that claim comes primarily from Richard Wagner who told Nietzsche's physician that his problem was chronic masturbation. I think there are other sources, but it comes up in this book: https://www.amazon.com/Richard-Wagner-Life-Work-Century/dp/0151771510

Anyway, that ended their friendship right there.

Yeah what you posted sounds like a more realistic version of that Graeber article.

> but fail to see that widespread automation has the ability to grant the freedom of not having to work to a large part of society. People losing their jobs because their labour not being needed anymore is not a bad thing, but opens a path to a utopia of widespread freedom

I am not sold on the idea that it would lead to a utopia. Like, I think we should utilize technology to automate the jobs we can, and provide basic Universal Income that covers housing, food, and rudimentary entertainment to all the folks that lose their jobs. Allow the Capitalist system to work, too, so that people who either have some skill or a desire to own yachts can muck about in the revenue generating game.

But I think Vonnegut's Player Piano does offer a reasonable insight to a realistic problem. If a person does not have a job, and their basic needs are met through government assistance, then what do they spend their time on? Either we get Vonnegut's projection where wide swaths of society sit around drinking gin, or a good chunk of the human race just Amuses ourselves to death.

Like I'm all for automation and UBI and freedom, but I do not imagine that even in that society things would be swell.

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In a deterministic universe, if you know everything happening in the present, you can predict what will happen in the future. This means that everything has a pre-existing cause, and doesn't happen spontaneously. Using free will as an example, in a deterministic universe, you can predict exactly how a person will act based on factors like their past experiences and their brain structure. The same applies for things like rolling dice.

In contrast, there is no way to predict quantum randomness. It is entirely spontaneous. It is not predetermined, therefore it is non-deterministic. There's an Android app that explains it better than I can: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=brychta.stepan.quantum_en&hl=en&referrer=utm_source%3Dgoogle%26utm_medium%3Dorganic%26utm_term%3Dstepan+brychta+quantum&pcampaignid=APPU_1_i0GhXJCCM4zatAWX_q_QBA