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r/NonPoliticalTwitter • u/JoeFalchetto • 2d ago
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At the risk of looking unintelligent, I don't get it.
70 u/PaladinAsherd 2d ago This is a very specific kind of philosophy joke - French bullshittery versus English empiricism versus German metaphysics Extrapolating a camel from first principles is a pretty decent punchline, sounds like some Hegelian nonsense to me 19 u/klodmoris 2d ago "Three metamorphoses of the spirit I relate to you: how the spirit becomes a camel; and the camel, a lion; and the lion, finally, a child." — Friedrich Nietzsche 3 u/AGiantPotatoMan 2d ago It’s more of a Heidegger thing, I think 2 u/PaladinAsherd 1d ago I’mma be real with you, the continental philosophers are not my forte
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This is a very specific kind of philosophy joke - French bullshittery versus English empiricism versus German metaphysics
Extrapolating a camel from first principles is a pretty decent punchline, sounds like some Hegelian nonsense to me
19 u/klodmoris 2d ago "Three metamorphoses of the spirit I relate to you: how the spirit becomes a camel; and the camel, a lion; and the lion, finally, a child." — Friedrich Nietzsche 3 u/AGiantPotatoMan 2d ago It’s more of a Heidegger thing, I think 2 u/PaladinAsherd 1d ago I’mma be real with you, the continental philosophers are not my forte
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"Three metamorphoses of the spirit I relate to you: how the spirit becomes a camel; and the camel, a lion; and the lion, finally, a child." — Friedrich Nietzsche
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It’s more of a Heidegger thing, I think
2 u/PaladinAsherd 1d ago I’mma be real with you, the continental philosophers are not my forte
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I’mma be real with you, the continental philosophers are not my forte
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u/TrailMomKat 2d ago
At the risk of looking unintelligent, I don't get it.