Kickassism is a philosophy created by someone who was really awesome. With Kickassism, you learn to love yourself, learn to love to punch sharks, and learn to become a better, more badass person in general. Kickassism is a way of thinking, not a religion. As such, there is nothing to worship; however, there are the Patron Badasses, role models from both fiction and non fiction, that teach us to be the best that we can be.
An example of the Kickassism-Philosophy would be when you punch that one shark in the face and you feel really badass.
by Patar McBadass April 11, 2014
Get the Kickassism-Philosophy mug.1. The major for people who value education and intelligent thought over silly matters such as getting a job.
2. The reason that one day I will live in a box, unless I buckle down and take those damn LSATs.
2. The reason that one day I will live in a box, unless I buckle down and take those damn LSATs.
Homeless man: Give me money!
Pedestrian: Hey, I recognize you! Werent you an honors philosophy student at my college?
Homeless man: But what does 'recognition' REALLY mean? *ponders*
Pedestrian: Hey, I recognize you! Werent you an honors philosophy student at my college?
Homeless man: But what does 'recognition' REALLY mean? *ponders*
by susievader October 15, 2007
Get the philosophy mug.The love of knowledge and the love of seeking it, then producing exhaustive writings of exhausting and inept metaphors, being refuted by another philosopher's exhausting and inept metaphors, then replying in rebuttal to challengers, ad nauseum. While one of the most noble intellectual pursuits, it is also one of the most masturbatory.
Summa Philosophia: Key Figures in Philosophy, Summarized in 500 Words or Less
Nietzsche = Woot, but mighta had bad thoughts about family members.
Socrates = Straight up gangsta, dat nigga drank any drank put in frunna him.
Plato = Overrated heir apparent of Socrates that screwed up Science for more than a thousand years with First Principles and other useless crap.
Aristotle = Reincarnated some time later into Gene Wilder.
Aquinas = Justified Catholic bullshit from a very comfy chair.
Confucius = Had the same PR agent as Jesus and gets all sorts of cool stuff attributed to him.
Augustine = Converted to Christianity early enough that he was one of the religion's editors - he gave you the God you "know" now by stealing heavily from Plato.
Descartes = Brought intellectualism to new highs and degrees of convolution by rationalizing things instead of pulling new crazy shit out of his ass.
Kant = Changed Minds. No, really - he changed them from being viewed as a cup that sorta just fills up with experiences into a filter and interpreter of sensory data. A computer rather than a trashcan.
Kierkegaard = Brought angst to the forefront of philosophy and did ultimately dehumanizing things that lead to quantifying peoples' lives in terms like "The Average Person spends 1/3rd of his Life Asleep" and other damning, mope-infested whinings about escapism and wasting time. Waste of Time? Kierkegaard.
Lao Tzu = The Asian Sensation. Tao De Ching is a quick read with little novel and even useful tidbits. Like a compilation of fortune cookie fortunes, but better.
John Locke = Shared a few basic principles with Kant. The mind is a house furnished with experiences and sensory input.
Karl Marx = History is the record of class conflict, material interests, and the exchange and exploitation involving them. Philosophy should not just interpret the world, but shape it.
Pascal = Somehow made the first mechanical calculator at age 15 in 1642. Beat that, fuckers. Sadly, he abandoned supermathgenius for philosophy, probably shooting all of humanity in the foot in the process, but he at least contributed to scientific investigation.
Spinoza = Ultimately just another dude that desperately needs God to exist in some fashion, but wrote avidly of ethics and against traditional religious views. Interest in his writing persists in modern environmentalists and ecologists.
Hume = Related the mind in terms of perception (impressions), processing and memory (idea). Like a bunch of other dudes. It was inevitable, really, but thanks for getting your papers in on time. ;D
Leibniz = Desperately tried to resolve The Problem of Evil so that God could be both Omnipotent and Benevolent at the same time and totally looked retarded for it. Voltaire totally burned him in Candide for it.
The ultimate lesson of Philosophy that you will never find in these old dead guys' writing is this: You utilize what is useful and discard what is not. No one has the answer and if someone somehow did, no one else would believe it or realize it. Walk your own way and try not to step on other peoples' toes. Wear comfortable shoes. Bring water.
Nietzsche = Woot, but mighta had bad thoughts about family members.
Socrates = Straight up gangsta, dat nigga drank any drank put in frunna him.
Plato = Overrated heir apparent of Socrates that screwed up Science for more than a thousand years with First Principles and other useless crap.
Aristotle = Reincarnated some time later into Gene Wilder.
Aquinas = Justified Catholic bullshit from a very comfy chair.
Confucius = Had the same PR agent as Jesus and gets all sorts of cool stuff attributed to him.
Augustine = Converted to Christianity early enough that he was one of the religion's editors - he gave you the God you "know" now by stealing heavily from Plato.
Descartes = Brought intellectualism to new highs and degrees of convolution by rationalizing things instead of pulling new crazy shit out of his ass.
Kant = Changed Minds. No, really - he changed them from being viewed as a cup that sorta just fills up with experiences into a filter and interpreter of sensory data. A computer rather than a trashcan.
Kierkegaard = Brought angst to the forefront of philosophy and did ultimately dehumanizing things that lead to quantifying peoples' lives in terms like "The Average Person spends 1/3rd of his Life Asleep" and other damning, mope-infested whinings about escapism and wasting time. Waste of Time? Kierkegaard.
Lao Tzu = The Asian Sensation. Tao De Ching is a quick read with little novel and even useful tidbits. Like a compilation of fortune cookie fortunes, but better.
John Locke = Shared a few basic principles with Kant. The mind is a house furnished with experiences and sensory input.
Karl Marx = History is the record of class conflict, material interests, and the exchange and exploitation involving them. Philosophy should not just interpret the world, but shape it.
Pascal = Somehow made the first mechanical calculator at age 15 in 1642. Beat that, fuckers. Sadly, he abandoned supermathgenius for philosophy, probably shooting all of humanity in the foot in the process, but he at least contributed to scientific investigation.
Spinoza = Ultimately just another dude that desperately needs God to exist in some fashion, but wrote avidly of ethics and against traditional religious views. Interest in his writing persists in modern environmentalists and ecologists.
Hume = Related the mind in terms of perception (impressions), processing and memory (idea). Like a bunch of other dudes. It was inevitable, really, but thanks for getting your papers in on time. ;D
Leibniz = Desperately tried to resolve The Problem of Evil so that God could be both Omnipotent and Benevolent at the same time and totally looked retarded for it. Voltaire totally burned him in Candide for it.
The ultimate lesson of Philosophy that you will never find in these old dead guys' writing is this: You utilize what is useful and discard what is not. No one has the answer and if someone somehow did, no one else would believe it or realize it. Walk your own way and try not to step on other peoples' toes. Wear comfortable shoes. Bring water.
by gadiv January 9, 2009
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Get the philosophy mug.The Philosophy of Ferris Bueller: "Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it." Enjoy life, do what you want.
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Believing that doing philosophy is worth doing for its own sake, despite the fact that the one philosophizing and those who follow, will all die. Paradoxically, in order to assert this is to make a philosophical claim.
To have philosophodoxia is to love philosophy and philosophizing even though it is ultimately fruitless. It is a chasing after the wind. It is to engage in mental masturbation. It’s to be in love with one’s own intellectual life and derive pleasure from it even though it’s ultimately
Believing that doing philosophy is worth doing for its own sake, despite the fact that the one philosophizing and those who follow, will all die. Paradoxically, in order to assert this is to make a philosophical claim.
To have philosophodoxia is to love philosophy and philosophizing even though it is ultimately fruitless. It is a chasing after the wind. It is to engage in mental masturbation. It’s to be in love with one’s own intellectual life and derive pleasure from it even though it’s ultimately
Philosophers, especially atheist philosophers, have a position of philosophodoxia for granted without considering that they are wasting their time. This mentality is often seen when they mock nihilists/nihilism as being pseudo-philosophical and resorting to calling those who hold that position as “adolescent”, “juvenile”, “pseudo-intellectual”, etc...
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Andrew and Steph have very similar outlooks on life are pretty similar. I bet one of them popped a Life Philosophy Boner.
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