8 philosophical ideas in kid quotes
Miscellaneous / / April 30, 2021
How phrases from VKontakte publics are related to the names of Plato, Kant, Sartre and other famous thinkers.
Quotes for boys, in which images of "street-grown", tough, but at the same time romantic and appreciating the "brotherly" friendship of young guys are drawn, have recently been very popular in social networks. They are often ridiculed in memes for excessive pathos, frequent lack of meaning and erroneous attribution of authorship to famous personalities.
So, one of the Twitter users with the help of a neural network generated several such ridiculous phrases "with meaning."
There will be a thread of kid quotes that I generated with Markov chains based on the kid's public
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But one way or another, some experience, a view of the world, life, and even a kind of wisdom are hidden in the kid's quotes. For example, they can be used to explain socio-political changes if desired. But they are closest to philosophy. Lifehacker has collected eight such expressions.
1. “Many would be horrified if they saw in the mirror not their faces, but their souls” - Platonism
In this quote, we are talking about the fact that the appearance and the inner world of a person can be very different. The idea of dualism - that the soul and body are not one - is more than two thousand years old. One of the first to talk about it antique philosopher Plato in the 4th century BC.
Disciple of Socrates and teacher of Aristotle, Plato in his treatise Plato. Collected works in four volumes. T.2. SPb. 2007 "On the soul" ("Phaedo") presented the latter as an indivisible substance that determines the intellectual and spiritual characteristics of a person. The body, according to him, cannot live without a soul. It was in the writings of Plato that ideas about the immortality of the soul and inadmissibility were formed. suicide.
2. “If you live, it’s beautiful. If the look is clear. If you hope, then only for yourself. If you love, then with all your heart "- epicureanism
The idea that you need to live your years in full, read in this quote, is also not new: it is practically the same age as Plato's ideas about the soul. The ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus was one of the first and most famous exponents of it.
The epicurean philosophers considered the main thing in lifeShakhnovich M. M. Epicureanism. Ancient Philosophy: An Encyclopedic Dictionary. M. 2008 pleasure and no pain. However, this does not mean at all that they were just messing around and indulging in passions. The Epicureans were worried about the structure of the world, they developed their own hierarchy of human needs. There were also many poets and politicians among these people. Ancient Rome - the heir to Greek culture.
Epicureanism denied the immortality of the soul, as well as the moralizing justified by religion. According to the Epicureans, the gods do not care about human virtues and vices. However, the concept does not at all imply that one can indulge in meaningless excesses.
3. "We are not like that, life is like that" - determinism
In this quote, you can see one of the opposing points of view in the centuries-old philosophical dispute about whether a person himself decides his fate. The belief that all our actions are predetermined is called determinism.Free will. Britannica.
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Its appearance in its modern form is usually associated with scientists (especially with Pierre-Simon de Laplace), who Newtonian classical mechanics inspired the idea that everything, even human behavior, can predict. To do this, according to determinists, it was only necessary to find out how particles The universe began to spread at the time of its creation, and calculate their movement.
The opposite point of view to determinism is libertarianism. According to him, free will exists. And only man is responsible for his own destiny.
4. "Strength in Truth" - Kantianism
On the question of the admissibility or inadmissibility of lies, philosophers have broken many copies. However, this phrase, taken from the film "Brother", echoes one of the teachings of the German thinker Immanuel Kant. In his workKant I. About the imaginary right to lie out of philanthropy. Treatises and letters. M. 1980 "On the imaginary right to lie out of love for mankind," the classic of philosophy writes that a lie cannot be justified even by good goals.
The concept of duty occupies a special place in the teachings of Kant. According to him, normal relations between members of society are impossible without truth, and society begins to fall apart at all levels. According to Kant, lies, even admitted without malice, remains a lie and must be punished.
It should be understood that in the philosophical sense "truth" and "truth" are not the same thing. To put it simply, truth is a kind of understanding of the truth.True. New Philosophical Encyclopedia. M. 2000 - reality.
5. “When there is money, it’s somehow easier to agree that happiness is not in it” - pragmatism
The idea that it is impossible to live by the spirit alone, sounding in the phrase above, took shape in USA in the second half of the 19th century in the concept of pragmatismApresyan R. G. Pragmatism. New Philosophical Encyclopedia. M. 2000. According to her, what is beneficial is true.
Pragmatic philosophers Charles Pierce, John Dewey, William James stated that if a statement is considered to be true, it does not mean that it is in fact so. The given quote vividly illustrates this principle.
In pragmatism, a large role is given to practical experience gained by trial and error, as well as the recognition that each person has their own truth.
6. "The wolf is weaker than the lion and the tiger, but does not perform in the circus" - structuralism
Structuralism appeared in the 50-70s of the XX century. This interdisciplinary direction studied culture based on linguistic structures and therefore was closely associated with linguistics. Later, poststructuralism was formed on its basis.
One of the main ideas that structuralist philosophers came up with Ferdinand de Saussure, Roman Jacobson, Claude Levi-Strauss, Jacques Lacan, Michel Foucault , is that any cultural phenomenon is based on West D. Continental philosophy. Introduction. M. 2015 opposition of fundamental concepts.
His simplest example was Levi-Strauss K. Mythology. In 4 volumes. T. 1. Raw and cooked. M., St. Petersburg. 1999 French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss: raw food is a sign of closeness to nature, and cooked food is a sign of civilization. Also, in the above quote about animals, the concepts of external (physical) and internal (spiritual) strength are contrasted.
By the way, the wolves in circus still do.
7. "Remember, brother: there is no way out only from the grave" - existentialism
The philosophy of existentialism was formed by the efforts of the French thinkers Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre in the 50-60s of the last century. The main place in it was given to existence - human existence, initially devoid of meaning.
The existentialists wrote West D. Continental philosophy. Introduction. M. 2015 that people are doomed to freedom of choice and search meaning of life. In particular, they cited the concept of a "borderline situation" - the moment when a person is faced with a choice without good options. Perhaps, some similar situation is being discussed in the above quote, if the conversation has already turned to death.
Also in existentialism it is said that a person suffers, since he is aware of the responsibility for his choice in front of other people.
8. “Someone sits at home and cries for a new iPhone, and someone on the street cries about the house” - neo-Marxism
Neo-Marxism emerged in the 1960s as a response to the emergence of a consumer society. Neo-Marxists believed Anderson P. Reflections on Western Marxism. M. 1991 that illusory signs of success, a passion for conspicuous consumption and popular culture have become the new means of enslaving man.
In their opinion, in this way global and social inequality is aggravated, and people become "one-dimensional": more tolerant refer to gender and racial oppression, lack of freedom, poverty. The kid's quote tells us about this.
Of course, publics with kid quotes are not the best place to start studying philosophy, but even they can cause a certain interest in it.
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