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History of mostly Western philosophy apparently
The only brown guy up there is Jesus, so it’s a strong argument
Has Avicenna too. But yeah, it's not a very universal overview... 😅
They made the Greeks awfully white considering how swarthy they tend to be.
Unironically better than a theory reading list. This fucking rules.
If Marx and Bakunin had just given in to their clear mutual attraction and fucked out an ideological successor we could have achieved leftist unity and avoided a whole lot of suffering by now.
Might be some Lysenkoist biology in that plan.
How dare you, the Proletarian Superbaby is conceived of pure Mendelian Genetics.
Sniff
and sho on and sho on
4/5 where is Camus?
No Adorno, we riot!
My exact same thought Also kinda surprised Dennett didn’t make the cut
Can I have this on a t-shirt? I'll give you $9.99.
No.
End of History confirmed.
Why is Aristotle spinning an invisible deck? 😂
It's a reference to Rafael's School of Athens. Plato and Aristotle are in the centre of the painting: Plato is pointing upwards to the realm of ideal forms, and Aristotle is pointing forwards, into the empirical world.
Thanks, I figured there would be some explanation!
Why is Jesus in there between all these historical figures?
Ok I will keep my dumb mouth shut now… thanks for enlightening me.
(Still an atheist tho…)
That's just historical human Jesus, not fictional son of god Jesus.
Yeah I got that. I’m not that deluded :D
Was Adam Smith missing a hand?
... oh god dammit.