Many of you have heard of Empiricists representing the Brits like Locke, Berkeley and Hume, or the bugmen Analytics, but there was a superior Brit tradition that has been suppressed because God forbid the English find their Platonist roots. The grand master of this school of philosophers was Henry More (pbuh) and we must read his books and bring back to the Anglo realm their rightful inheritance. My bros, read the Cambridge Platonists and fight back the bugman menace.
You first, midwit.
Anglo "philosophy" is the pursuit of money, simple as. That has been the guiding principle in their struggle since their Empire days, and has been carried over to America in modern days.
you pursue mens butts
Let me guess: your "philosophy" is the pursuit of other people's money, without actually getting off your ass at any point.
>pursuit of money is inherently bad
What do you think money is exactly? Is it not just a marker for production?
no. it's a claim to an abstract right.
If you had a brain, or knew anything about economics, you'd have said "the pursuit of wealth."
Wealthy people don't hold "money" because it is constantly being devalued by the state. Wealth is material assets.
thank you seems very based we must crush the bugman menace at once and restore order to Britain!!!!
I‘m not sure that would help… Plato was the origin of bugmen-ism as Nietzsche pointed out, it may include some nice mystical elements but ultimately it leads to rationalism and Descartes. Why not read the anti-bugman, anti-analytic Anglo Iain McGilchrist who has the advantage of being contemporary and not entirely obscure and follow in his footsteps?
>ultimately it leads to rationalism
excellent
>the anti-bugman, anti-analytic Anglo Iain McGilchrist
qrd?
anybody?
Added his The Master and His Emissary to my list, thanks.
they were big into absolute idealism during 19th century and early 20th, dubbed British idealism.
I honestly feel bad for you gaygies who can’t appreciate “bugmen” like Locke and Hobbes.
What is a bugman?
Has anyone read any of the Cambridge Platonists' poetry? Love the idea but it could obviously go quite badly.
Is there any older philosophies of the Anglos? Dark ages or older. Perhaps even those dating to the invading Saxons themselves? I think I could find Celtic philosophy but what were the philosophies of the Saxons?
boats good but land better.
britons have good land. go work for them. then marry into them (but make sure the kids speak anglo). then take them over. then make everyone else speak anglo.
Middle Ages was all Scholasticism. Anglo-Saxon England was based around oral culture, it wasn‘t particularly literate. That‘s not a bad thing at all but philosophy only really comes with literacy because it‘s a detached, abstract (mis)use of language divorced from everyday concerns. If you look at Anglo-Saxon literature (ie. Beowulf) you might argue there are more parallels with preclassical than Athenian poetry. They unlearned literacy so they unlearned consciousness and had no use for philosophy.
>That‘s not a bad thing at all but philosophy only really comes with literacy because it‘s a detached, abstract (mis)use of language divorced from everyday concerns
imagine being this moronic. Imagine not knowing Socrates didn't write anything. Imagine not knowing philosophy begins in wonder.
Oh and you say you know about this Socrates how? And you‘re quite sure this Plato wrote down his thoughts exactly the same and didn‘t alter them in any way?
To the Cambridge Platonists, religion and reason were in harmony, and reality was known not by physical sensation alone, but by intuition of the intelligible forms that exist behind the material world of everyday perception. Universal, ideal forms inform matter, and the physical senses are unreliable guides to their reality. In response to the mechanical philosophy, More proposed a "Hylarchic Principle", and Cudworth a concept of "Plastic Nature".