cathieiscool wrote:
idk if this is the right thread to post this in...
but i like to think that philosophy is as general debate where 1 person tries to make a valid and serious argument and there are others (philosophy trolls) who just shit on their arguments.
1 fine example/my personal fav:
"man is mortal, Socrates is man, therefor Socrates is mortal". -Socrates.
"a potato has skin i have skin therefore i am a potato". -Bill Murray
Pretty much, with the exception that I wouldn't call them "philosophy trolls". That would imply that these people are simply there to piss people off, but in reality these people are here to challenge the philosophies that these people made.
Such as the time when Plato gave Socrates' definition of man as "a featherless biped", Diogenes brought a plucked chicken to Plato's Academy and said "I've brought you a man"
He wasn't trying to piss people off, just challenge a philosophy that was given.