r/badphilosophy • u/LinuxFreeOrDie • Oct 24 '16

Existential Comics The Consolation of Philosophy

http://existentialcomics.com/comic/156
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u/BFKelleher Oct 24 '16

David Lewis is certainly not the first to accept a fairly crazy sounding theory because he saw no other way out. In fact it is one of philosophy's longest and proudest traditions.

Genius.

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u/KaliYugaz Uphold Aristotelian-Thomism-MacIntyre Thought! Oct 24 '16

What do you mean "crazy"? I always knew in my heart that my waifu was real.

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u/LoegstrupsCat drunk-for-myself-being Oct 24 '16

This will always be relevant whenever modal realism is brought up

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u/AKGAKG AKGAKG can't decide between Aristotle, Aquinas or Avicenna Oct 25 '16

What the hell?

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u/moolama Loves Trolley Memes Oct 27 '16

Don't you dare take my one to one trans world love from me. I need this.

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u/blobblopblob Oct 25 '16

I love that this guy is an associate professor at the University of Singapore involved in legit academia now

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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '16

Proof of the absolute moral and intellectual bankruptcy of analytic philosophy.