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not only is it morally sound to wish death on people who have caused unfathomable amounts of death and suffering themselves, it is extremely cool and sexy to do so as well

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“Why Is My Curriculum White?” (2015)

https://www.luu.org.uk/campaigns/wimcw/

‘Why is my Curriculum White?’ is a national movement aiming to challenge the persistence of Euro-centric hegemonic narratives across curricula. This movement aims to encourage a broader diversity of course content and perspectives, to help provide a richer and more global education. 

photos via https://twitter.com/anaisdpedica/status/867367008962215938

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i love how throughout the Prolegomena Kant is passive-aggressively bitching about how much work he has put into this project and what a toil it was and how people don’t seem to appreciate or understand this

like: “Should my reader complain of the difficulty and the trouble which I occasion him in the solution of this problem, he is at liberty to solve it himself in an easier way. Perhaps he will then feel under obligation to the person who has undertaken for him a labor of so profound research and will rather be surprised at the facility with which, considering the nature of the subject, the solution has been attained. Yet it has cost years of work to solve the problem in its whole universality (using the term in the mathematical sense, viz., for that which is sufficient for all cases), and finally to exhibit it in the analytical form, as the reader will find it here.”

he’s just like ‘oh, you have a problem with how dense and difficult my answer is? well you are absolutely welcome to find an easier way to answer this question which the entire validity of metaphysics happens to depend on. it’s not like it took me years to figure this out and present to you here in a way that is understandable in spite of the deeply complex nature of this issue.’

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ancient philosophers as onion headlines

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Nietzsche’s legacy reads like the product of a deal with the devil “You will be remembered forever! Just, mostly by assholes who interpret your philosophy as a justification of their natural inclinations to be awful to other people.”

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how do yall just… drink soda every day??? how do you do that?? like… that doesnt hurt?

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Lately I’ve been asking myself what it means to grow up. And I think it’s this: you forget the mistakes you’ve made, you let go of the grudges you still hold onto, you don’t care what strangers think about you, you laugh when you want and accept life for what it is - the good and the bad - because what goes up must come down and because every moment needs to be savored. I want to taste life. I want to be and I want to become and I want to live.

21. (via c0ntemplations)

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No nihilism, we philosophise like ubermen!

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Disappointing Popsicle Jokes

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Professor: Aristotle and Plato are the founding fathers of philosophy

Chase: Philosophy has two dads?

Bar: Yes, philosophy has gay dads.

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just learned that jean-jacques rousseau was so deeply deeply obsessed with being spanked - such a spank maniac if you will, that he used to drop trou and sprint backwards ass first at unsuspecting women on the off chance their first instinct would be to spank his bare ass

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Philosophy on Urban Dictionary