#This is generally why to my great shame I barely passed Modern Philosophy in college | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

thatscarletflycatcher · 7 months

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Reading modern German Philosophy is always like "truly, Aristotle's et-et mindset is such a rarity, and it makes so much sense for Catholic thought to have latched onto him so hard besides Plato"

#reading on Herder rn #and like it's not just him #but the whole #we re radically different from people from other times and places #we are just like the people from other times and places #Have you all considered that we are #maybe like them in some ways and unlike them in other ways?#has the notion ever crossed your minds dear modern philosophers?#This is generally why to my great shame I barely passed Modern Philosophy in college #Because the systems are so suffocating #and most of them are so so so rigid without being like #truly clever and fascinating in terms of woldbuilding #they are boring difficult constricting and depressing #Except my boy Leibniz he's unhinged and brilliant and he's my blorbo I will defend at all costs #mind you I think he was wrong in several things #but he was oh so earnest and well intentioned and so much more of a nerd than a self important sophist #In this house we love and protect Wilhelm Gottfried Leibniz and his 40 wigs

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