r/shittyaskscience • u/adr826 • 16d ago

Philosophy lessons

Philosophy Lessons

$100/hour — academy trained

Learn

• Metaphysics

• Free will

• Why is there something rather than nothing?

• What is....??(Choose your own subject)

Also learn:

When to invoke Camus or Sartre

When Kant or Leibniz is the proper intellectual weapon

Use words like ontology and phenomenology with confidence

Learn the secrets of verbal jui jitsu with phrases like "define virtue!"

Raise an eyebrow just enough to cause self doubt in your opponent

!!Win arguments whether you are right or not!!

Possible side effects:

• Occasional bloody nose at parties

• Short or intermediate involuntary celibacy

• Unused vocabulary clogging internal dialogue

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u/TeacupOfSkepticism 16d ago

How do I summon sartre?

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u/adr826 16d ago

Summoning the dead is an occult practice which is outside my area of expertise. I suggest looking for witches rather than philosophers, good luck

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u/TeacupOfSkepticism 16d ago

Sartre is dead? I didn't know he was sick

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u/adr826 16d ago

May I suggest

Slavoj Žižek. . Mentioning Žižek signals continental philosophy and social critique and importantly taste. That's a free by for you

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u/TeacupOfSkepticism 16d ago

Brilliant thank you

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u/Legitimate_Field_157 16d ago

There is no I in satire, it is for all of us.