What books should I start reading to get into political philosophy?

>dude just stop caring dude he apathetic and nihilistic
Get off my board Last Man

All philosophy is political.

take the redpill, retard

What is Political Philosophy - Leo Strauss

No, but they're all larping frogmen

>The personal is political

Get fucked, feminist.

Politics isn't everything. In fact, it's very little.

Claiming politics isn't everything is a political statement.

>He appeals to the flaws of language and ignores the obvious intended meaning

What the fuck are you on about? By disregarding politics you effectively hold up the status quo, which is in itself a political position. I'm not arguing semantics.

Atlas Shrugged

Read Manufacturing Consent

False. My effect on the political landscape is negligible. The status quo would be upheld no matter how I choose to participate or not to participate.

Good goy! Don't rebel, it won't make a difference anyways! Keep yourself occupied with escapist hobbies!

Then how is political change brought about? I'm not one to believe in great man theory either, but you've got some hard determinism going on or something.

Alexis de Tocqueville

>The fact that democracy is dead is a Jewish conspiracy
>Democracy itself wasn't a Jewish conspiracy
The 'redpill' is just another bluepill

Plato's The Republic
The Federalist Papers
A Theory of Justice

>believing politics are important
Have fun in hell, heathen

If you hate the current system so much you should work to change it.

>believing politics isn't important
>letting yourself get cucked into submission and passivity

What do you suggest doing, oh wise redditor?
Up vote a derisive comment on the status quo?

We do what revolutionaries of the past would do

>Another plebeian can't conceive of someone transcending the plebeian past-time that is politics

>unironically using the word cuck
>xD look at me I'm the ubermensch!! I'm a redpilled alpha male who takes charge of his destiny

dumb frogposter

>not realizing the greatest writers and philosophers of all time transcended politics
>not aspiring to rid yourself of such base affairs

t. Last Men

You guys unironically have no political beliefs or goals? Do you think all political reformers of the past were idiots?

>Delude yourself into thinking you can have an effect on a nation of millions!
>Call others a cuckhold when they threaten your fragile sense of political self worth by refusing to play the same worthless game as you!
>All in a day's work for a broffessional Redditor!

>Uses the term 'Last Men'
>Doesn't realize that Nietzsche was avowedly apolitical/anti-political

Make a new king to dominate and degrade us?

>implying politics, philosophy, and art isn't inextricably linked
>believing the meme that human concerns are somehow lesser than spiritual ones
>dude you have no voice stop trying to do stuff lmao
>why the fuck aren't politicians doing what I want?

Sshhh.
That's part of the joke ;)

Nietzsche didn't despise politics. Political struggle is one type of noble struggle that Nietzsche glorified.

>using Nietzsche
>Not realizing that he despised human politics and felt contempt towards such affairs
>Not realizing he urged others to transcend these things

back to >>>>>>/reddit/>>>>>>>

>Dude...Lmao
Reddit's the other way, sweet cheeks.

>caring about things is reddit
Just be apathetic like me xD

>Nietzsche wasn't what he was because I said so.

>Political struggle is one type of noble struggle that Nietzsche glorified.

Citation sorely fucking needed.

You didn't give me a citation.

>thinking politics has anything to do with the aesthetic values of a work of art
>thinking pseudo continentals of the 20th and 21st century who spew their poltical beliefs everywhere are """philosophers"""
>trying to politicize art like the SJW's you probably despise

>Oh shit, I've been cornered!
>I got it! I'll misinterpret them intentionally.
>That'll show them!

It's true. Political ideologies color your thought and art.
What's your point?

Dammit... Quick, someone post that image with the hipster in a mask claiming that anti sjws are as bad as sjws.
You know, the one made by that Tumblr cartoonist.

>Political ideologies color your thought and art.
>Intentionally avoiding my points like this

The actual aesthetic/literary merit of a work has NOTHING to do with politics.

If you believe this you are literally an SJW trying to push some female minority author to the level of Shakespeare by claiming that the female author's work is great because of its social implications, rather than what is actually written on the page.

I have this, I hope it's close enough

Embarrassing thread

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history of the peloponnesian war

That's not necessarily true but it is true in the case of most people.

As if that's something bad.

I had a francis fukuyama hero phase in my under grad
he copped a lot of shit but I like his ideas

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Fukuyama was such a hack.

The whole idea of an "End of History" needs sunk, once and for all.

Sadly I can't see it happening because Marxists/Socialists/etc, persistent that they are and bastard children of Hegel that they are, remain very much on the political scene. Their "End of History" is one of the most persistent/enchanting/tempting - a classless society, replete with equality/etc.

Have you read his more recent work? His two volume Political Order is excellent, and The American Interest is one of the consistently best online commentaries.

smith - wealth of nations, moral sentiments
hayek - road to serfdom
friedman - capitalism and freedom
noszick - anarchy, state and utopia
goldwater - conscience of a conservative

also, i guess:
rawls - a theory of justice

Guy Debord

I'm on your side but this is cop out. Why is the language wrong? What if your use of it?

>intended meaning

Are we just going to gloss over this in a discussion about the merits of philosophy?

dumb dumbfrogposter poster

>sam hyde poster
>is a retard
well colour me surprised.