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Confucious say, "Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage."     (Philosophy)
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what had Max Stirner to say?      (Philosophy)
submitted by boekanier to Philosophy 1.7 years ago (+1/-0)
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Max Stirner, pseudonym of Johann Caspar Schmidt (Bayreuth, October 25, 1806 - Berlin, June 26, 1856) was a German philosopher.

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a transcendence of the subjugation of consciousness to abstract ideas such as "the state" and "humanity". Stirner simply assumes that his state of consciousness can no longer be connected to abstract concepts such as "the state", "the people", "man" etc.

Since this "unique ego" is beyond the limits of the definable (it falls outside the dialectic) it is therefore also completely indefinable. The absolute is thus linked to pure subjectivity, and therefore escapes any subjectivation.

In other words, humanism is a curse rather than a blessing, as it imposes limits on the “human.”

Ich hab' mein' Sach' auf Nichts gestellt (Goethe). This phrase indicates what both Stirner and Hegel regard as the fundamental nature of pure subjectivity.

Stirner plainly stated that there is no difference between humanism and Christianity, but that "humanism", on the contrary, entails an intensification of the oppressive mechanism of Christianity.

He seriously problematizes the alleged evidence that man has simply become "freer" or has started to act more "morally" since the Enlightenment.

An interesting fact is that Stirner did not preach "revolution" at all, but what he called Empörung: the individual man had to come to the insight that he was faced with the choice to realize his own individuality on the basis of daily practice and not to let seduced by all kinds of sacred goals outside themselves. The resistance and oppression that the individual person may experience must be circumvented through a cunning strategy. According to him, striving to realize a new form of society inevitably leads to a new essentialism and is itself the product of this.

In fact, Stirner's relevance is limited to his own time. His alleged modern-day apostles sometimes lack irony. Stirner can be understood as a "tool" to disassemble contemporary developments, and in particular to formulate a critique of the communalism of the "alter-globalist movement".

Rudolf Steiner: "Like Nietzsche, Stirner often believes that the driving forces of human life can only be found in the separate, real individual. He rejects all forces that seek to shape and determine the individual personality from outside. The free human being determines his own goals. He possesses his own ideals and does not allow himself to be possessed by those ideals. The human being who is not master of his own ideals as a free individual is under the same influence as the mentally ill individual who It makes no difference to Stirner whether a human being imagines himself to be the “Emperor of China,” or whether an ordinary citizen imagines that his destiny is to be a good Christian, a faithful Protestant, a virtuous human orphans, etc., or that he is taken captive, and sits, in orthodoxy, virtue, etc.

You only have to read a few pages in Stirner's book, Der Einzige und sein Eigentum, to see how closely his views are related to those of Nietzsche."

John Glassford (prof. present): "Could it be more than a coincidence that Stirner, like Nietzsche, abhorred the state, nationalism, liberalism, socialism and communism? Nietzsche called all those modern isms “fits of stupidity" and Stirner said quite remarkable about one of those ideologies, “that the communists see the man, the brother in you, is only the Sunday side of communism.” According to Stirner and Nietzsche, these ideas are all based on a latent, secularized version of Christian ethics.
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Max Stirner:     (Philosophy)
submitted by boekanier to Philosophy 1.6 years ago (+1/-0)
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What separates a man from a youth is that he accepts the world as it is instead of seeing it as bad everywhere and trying to improve it, i.e. to want to model himself after his ideal; It reinforces the view that one must deal with the world according to one's own interests, not according to one's ideals.
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What if dieing is not the end? I’m not trying to change your perspective but what if?     (Philosophy)
submitted by Portmanure to Philosophy 1.5 years ago (+4/-3)
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It’s what the Bible teaches. All bibles teach it. The love and joy of 72 virgins is no different than the heaven promise in all religions, everywhere! Is there a religion I can believe, Christianity, Buddhist, Muslim (but not the Jews, they are evil.) one thing is true: just love one another, be kind. But watch out for Jews, they are the naughty people.
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Empedocles     (Philosophy)
submitted by boekanier to Philosophy 9 months ago (+2/-1)
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EMPEDOCLES

Born in 492 BC in Agrigentum, Empedocles became known as a physician, physicist, philosopher and poet. As a scientist, he was well-informed about the views of many predecessors, but he himself is said to have discovered the centrifugal force through experiments. As a physicist, he shared with the philosophers of Ionia a great curiosity about the origin of the cosmos. He assumed that the basic substances - fire, water, air and earth - had first clumped together by chance and disorder, but that over time only those combinations had remained that had a good composition. A 'theory of evolution' avant la lettre, as it were. And he saw the entire process of changes in nature not influenced by a world of gods, but by two forces: love and struggle. As a poet, Empedocles was highly respected. He was particularly fascinated by the theories of Heraclitus on the theme of continuous 'becoming'. With his creative mind, for example, he describes death as 'disappearing into the lonely and blind night'.
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de Chardin and the Noosphere     (invidious.jing.rocks)
submitted by Version6 to Philosophy 9 months ago (+1/-0)
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Why Spinoza Was Excommunicated      (Philosophy)
submitted by boekanier to Philosophy 7 months ago (+1/-0)
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The Senhores of the ma’amad [the congregation’s lay governing board] having long known of the evil opinions and acts of Baruch de Spinoza, have endeavored by various means and promises to turn him from his evil ways. However, having failed to make him mend his wicked ways, and, on the contrary, daily receiving more and more serious information about the abominable heresies which he practiced and taught and about his monstrous deeds, and having for this numerous trustworthy witnesses who have deposed and borne witness to this effect in the presence of the said Espinoza, they became convinced of the truth of this matter. After all of this has been investigated in the presence of the honorable hakhamim [“wise men,” or rabbis], they have decided, with the [rabbis’] consent, that the said Espinoza should be excommunicated and expelled from the people of Israel. By decree of the angels and by the command of the holy men, we excommunicate, expel, curse and damn Baruch de Espinoza, with the consent of God, Blessed be He, and with the consent of the entire holy congregation, and in front of these holy scrolls with the 613 precepts which are written therein; cursing him with the excommunication with which Joshua banned Jericho and with the curse which Elisha cursed the boys and with all the castigations which are written in the Book of the Law. Cursed be he by day and cursed be he by night; cursed be he when he lies down and cursed be he when he rises up. Cursed be he when he goes out and cursed be he when he comes in. The Lord will not spare him, but the anger of the Lord and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and the Lord shall blot out his name from under heaven. And the Lord shall separate him unto evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that are written in this book of the law. But you that cleave unto the Lord your God are alive every one of you this day.

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religion as a form of control after a technological singuarity     (Philosophy)
submitted by o0shad0o to Philosophy 1 month ago (+2/-1)
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Something that's really been bothering me for the last few years is how strangely cultish both the radicals and the elites in our society have been becoming. Odd religious practices and symbolisms, apocalyptic imagery, attacks on mainstream religions of all sorts, etc. It's been sticking in my mind for a while.

Then I got in a discussion with a friend of mine regarding, of all things, info that came in on Reddit. Interesting content despite the source. https://archive.ph/5apLp

I opined that John Maynard Keynes wasn't really evil, even though his work has served as a basis for a lot of it. We went from that to Marx, and I brought up how both of them were addressing the point that the workforce was steadily requiring fewer people to accomplish the same tasks based on increasing technology. I said that Keynes admitted no solution and proposed patchwork to keep a crisis from turning deadly, and waiting for the economy to recover on its own, and that the only real end to the problem he proposed would be what both he and Marx were pointing at, a technological singularity.

She then brought in the Rothschilds influencing both of them. I said I was sure the Rothschilds were using their philosophies for their own purposes, but that they wouldn't want a technological singularity, since when everything is free, money is worthless and they'd lose all their power.

Then I started thinking of ways they'd try to keep their power that didn't involve money, and the only somewhat-reliable thing that would work is religion. Either infiltrating existing ones or creating new ones, and I suspect they're doing both. Even with no one needing to work there are a large number of people who are willing to listen to religious authority figures. Combining neurolinguistics into the mix would generate plenty of followers and allow them to establish dynasties around them.
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Universal laws of conscious psyche and normal intellect     (Philosophy)
submitted by Conspirologist to Philosophy 1 month ago (+1/-2)
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Universal Laws of Conscious Psyche and Normal Intellect

Based on Asimov’s robotic laws, these parallel laws use human logic for survival, enabling rapid detection of degenerates for self-defense, with conflicts resolved rationally to uphold ethical action.

I Law: A normal human must protect personal and common awareness, health, wealth, freedom, and safety, except where such protection conflicts with the II or III Law.

II Law: A normal human must respect human natural needs and rational preferences, except where unnatural needs or preferences conflict with the I or III Law.

III Law: A normal human must not, by action or inaction, harm others psychologically or physically, except for self-defense or where such conflicts with the I or II Law.
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Christian Nationalism vs Pagan Nationalism: There's Both Conflict & Common Ground     (redice.tv)
submitted by NationalSocialism to Philosophy 2.8 years ago (+1/-1)
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Using the contrapositive of MLK's "I Have a Dream"     (Philosophy)
submitted by o0shad0o to Philosophy 1.3 years ago (+0/-0)
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This is an argument you can use in public for people who can't get around your "whiteness".

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

Now point out that they want to judge people by the color of their skin because they're horrible people of disgusting character.

(inb4 all the "but niggers" comments :-P )
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Mozi (Mo Tse)     (Philosophy)
submitted by boekanier to Philosophy 9 months ago (+0/-0)
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MOZI (Mo Tse) c. 470 – c. 391 BCE

400 years before Christ, he lays down his famous principle of universal charity. 'Let every country treat other countries as its own, other families as his own, other people as himself!'
On the role of traditional religion: 'When everyone believes in the power of spirits (the Chinese have no God) to reward the good and punish the bad, there will be no misfortune.'
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the philosopher of egoism     (www.gutenberg.org)
submitted by boekanier to Philosophy 8 months ago (+0/-0)
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The Ego and its Own (Max Stirner) - "The extremest that we know anywhere" F.A. Lange     (en.wikipedia.org)
submitted by boekanier to Philosophy 7 months ago (+0/-0)
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Perfection of ideal center in natural balance     (Philosophy)
submitted by Conspirologist to Philosophy 1 month ago (+0/-2)
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Centrism’s rationality and objectivity mirrors nature’s and human systems’ preference for balanced conditions conducive to well-being. The table illustrates how centered values optimize perfection, while extremes are harmful or destabilizing, reinforcing centrism as natural, balanced normality.

Table: Centrism as Natural Balance

Phenomenon | Extreme Left (-) | Centered Value (Ideal) | Extreme Right (+)
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Temperature: | Cold | Warm | Hot
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Humidity: | Dry | Mild | Wet
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Physiology: | Thin | Fit | Fat
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Psychology: | Pessimism | Realism | Optimism
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Psychiatry: | Untermensch | Ublichmensh | Ubermensch
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Sexology: | Asexuality | Sexuality | Oversexuality
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Design: | Minimalism | Perfectionism | Maximalism
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Politology: | Anarchy | Republic | Monarchy
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Economics: | Socialism | Centrism | Capitalism
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Sociology: | Libertarian | Authoritative | Authoritarian
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Theology: | Atheism | Agnosticism | Theism
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Genderism: | Feminism | Fairnesism | Maschilism
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Morality: | Needs | Moderation | Preferences
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Legality: | Rights | Justice | Duties
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Governance: | Freedom | Liberty | Security
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Ethnicism: | Xenophilia | Nationalism | Xenophobia
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Semitism: | Prosemitism | Aposemitism | Antisemitism
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Okay I'm seeing it. Satan is real. That nigga is stupid tho. Yo here my message to satan:      (Philosophy)
submitted by Saintdindufromthelandofnuffins to Philosophy 11 hours ago (+1/-2)
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Satan, you sooo stupid. I dont know what your beef with creation is but peep this here - i like creation. You a stupid ass nigga. Lmao this gay nigga got himself all worked up tryin to take over the earth. You got no power here gay boy
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Curt Doolittle: Our marginal differences are enough     (www.youtube.com)
submitted by veridic to Philosophy 3.7 years ago (+1/-2)
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Id, Ego & Superego - In psychoanalytic theory, the id, ego and superego are three distinct, interacting agents in the psychic apparatus, outlined in Sigmund Freud's structural model of the psyche     (en.wikipedia.org)
submitted by MartinTimothy to Philosophy 2 weeks ago (+1/-4)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Id,_ego_and_superego

Broadly speaking, the id is the organism's unconscious array of uncoordinated instinctual needs, impulses and desires; the superego is the part of the psyche that has internalized social rules and norms, largely in response to parental demands and prohibitions in childhood; the ego is the integrative agent that directs activity based on mediation between the id's energies, the demands of external reality, and the moral and critical constraints of the superego. Wiki.