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Anonymous 7w

ya because they inspired the kind of thought that led to those ideas. most people did not have the time or means to create the building blocks of philosophy.

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Anonymous 7w

It’s also racism; no one discusses African philosophers who also had very fascinating theories

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Anonymous 7w

bro not even just ancient greek philosophers! descartes going "i think therefore i am" like damn sherlock you really connected the dots on that one

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Anonymous 6w

Greeks do it best!

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Anonymous 7w

Yeah true but also you have to realize the amount of personal research and trials they did to try and figure these things out. Of course their concepts and ideas weren’t perfect, but it was a start and we’re here now with the info we have today. Not all because of them, but they did play a big part in getting us to where we are today with what we know. So yeah, praise is merited.

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Anonymous 7w

Not me taking a class in this rn for summer💀

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Anonymous 7w

Common sense is a product of history

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Anonymous 7w

Already know everyone in this thread dumb asl

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 7w

building blocks that each successive generation BUILDS on, so of course in the modern day it seems obvious because so much of our knowledge is built on those early tenets.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 7w

That’s the thing, though, this is a addressed birth number one and the OP, they were also copying ideas of earlier philosophers that we don’t know the names of nor the time of and in some cases we don’t even know the empire of. These ancient philosophers were copying philosophers that they themselves considered an ancient of other places and empires.

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 7w

i’ve come to the belief that a lot of the most important ones we have in our culture are the ones who were able to dumb down concepts enough for the general public. it’s the kind of stuff people remember and share more thus increasing its importance. of course the sources are usually filtered to be more eurocentric 🫩. gen cannot overemphasize how much people were not thinking about this stuff in their daily life. not even their fault either, life was hard enough without didactic discourse.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 7w

it’s kind of amazing how far we’ve come to have lives that allow us to have the free time to learn and discover these topics that used to be restricted to very few people in society. the internet has done a lot for my own understanding being able to cross reference things super easily. unfortunately now that we have that time it’s become full of capitalistic distractions that lobotomize everyone from actually thinking about what they believe etc. hope it gets better, have seen progress at least

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 7w

You wouldn’t have even known what ur name is back then without them u dam well wouldn’t have thought of all these complex topics and things we have now they did that without all the shit we have now

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Anonymous replying to -> #6 7w
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Anonymous replying to -> #3 7w

My favorite part of African Philosphy is that it is based on the sentiment of communal values and the wellbeing of society, and that’s why people don’t like it

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Anonymous replying to -> #10 7w

Which “African?” Btw, same w/Japan

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 6w

Which 1’s?

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