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0 pointswhimsicalism1y ago0 comments

I was commenting on the notion that ambition is in some way prima facie bad.

In response, I was told that my understanding of philosophy is like that of a 20 year old and that I am intellectually stuck in the 1800s (in a comment comically premised on the moral philosophy of the ancient greeks).

I do not see my comment as a put-down at all and it certainly is not anything like that response. Nonetheless, I will take your feedback into account - clearly it came across to multiple people as condescending.

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humptylumpy1y ago

> I was commenting on the notion that ambition is in some way prima facie bad.

You were in fact commenting on the strawman you constructed that the op “notion[ed] that ambition is in some way prima facie bad”.

The op mocked, and in a way more reserved way than I would, the type of “ambition” that this unethical sociopath and his supporters endorse.

If this unethical sociopath was ambitiously pursuing universal healthcare then he’d get my support.

Instead he has found his place by stealing from the impoverished, world coin, and now creatives, OpenAI.

That to me is an abhorrent form of ambition.

piva001y ago

> In response, I was told that my understanding of philosophy is like that of a 20 year old and that I am intellectually stuck in the 1800s (in a comment comically premised on the moral philosophy of the ancient greeks).

Please tell me how Sloterdijk is premised on Plato or Socrates. It's a continuation of thought from Nietzsche's approach of "will to power" in a contemporary view, if Sloterdijk is invalid so is your use of Nietzsche as a foundation.

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