How to Write Philosophical Novels

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[@creamybeige8031]

Ian goes outside, finally uses his inside voice.

[@Snarflelocker]

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[@hdcbpxsytahdcbpx]

😂😂

[@Snarflelocker]

Real content from a real person who doesn't edit out real slips of the tongue. almost all content creators would do a redo each time they stutter or misspeak, but it's a testament to Ian's authenticity to keep the verbal typos in his videos. It makes them (and him!) so much more relatable. Anyway, thanks.

[@mikelpelaez]

I personally find Borges the Master of joining philosophy with literature

[@labradax]

His essays on writing are great.

[@leonardomenegola8409]

I prefer Plato but Borges one of the best

[@TheMightyPika]

THANK YOU for mentioning the amount of real life experience you should be prepared to do (and actually do) when you dedicate yourself to writing. That's something that too many people leave out.

[@Postmailer]

I would love to blend Swedenborg an Spengler in a historical piece about colonising Melbourne

[@rjr230]

I’m not familiar with those guys but that sounds really cool. Definitely should write it 👍

[@AngloSaks666]

I generally feel that a philosophical outlook means that you engage with philosophers critically, and also that you probably come to them because something you are already thinking has led you to them, so their ideas get fused somehow, and changed somehow, by your own perspective. And in the end then, basically speaking, it's not a particular philosophy, or even less so the ideas of one philosopher, but a general 'philosophical angle' or 'framework' of your own that you're applying. Surely if you've really absorbed and made real use of any philosophy you''ve engaged with, then you have accepted parts of it, but rejected others, and integrated it organically with anything of your own, or anything you got from anywhere or anyone else, and it's an organic thing that is at least pretty seriously built on your own foundation and also appended by your own responses and experienced, so it's more a question of whether you feel a reasonably coherent perspective functionally grounded in yoursel ot not. That's what you're trying to include in any 'philosophical' fiction.

[@TH3F4LC0Nx]

This is something I wrestle with. I feel like with my own stuff it's kind of just an extended dialectic; like a series of Socratic dialogues about whatever topic, although I do strive to not subordinate the plot overly much. That is after all largely why I'm so awed by McCarthy. He was able to infuse lowbrow characters with insanely highbrow concepts and dialogue and it never felt incongruous. Oh, to be able to do that.

[@alohm]

"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." - Nietzsche (Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future (1886), Chapter IV. Apophthegms and Interludes, §146). ** Found it apropos ;) thanks for the share I enjoyed your ideas and tips...

[@TheMightyPika]

(wrote the first comment before finishing the video haha) My book has to do with the first people to live on a colony outside of earth, and I'll be drawing a good deal of Alan Moore's philosophy on functioning anarchy as a social structure. I'm not even a big fan of Moore overall but he knocked my socks off when he talks about anarchic society. I feel that if more people today learned about it maybe a lot of today's problems would be solved.

[@faerietech]

If you've not already come across it, might i recommend Ursula K. Le Guin's novel 'The Dispossessed' ? I would love for more work approaching these ideas to exist in the world :)

[@TheMightyPika]

@@faerietech I've heard of it but haven't read it. Thank you for the recommendation! My book is a graphic novel/comic about t 40 pages in so far. it's called "Hench"

[@Bolgini]

Dostoevsky was a master of the philosophical novel. Check him out if you haven’t already.

[@alohm]

15:20 the via negativa.. Express what is the thing: by extolling what is not the thing...

[@YvesThePoet]

Love it. Good tips for being on same page with editor.

[@FrancisGo.]

I don't want to give away trade secrets, but the theory of evolution was mathematized into game theory, and it has a proven theorem that says ideas like altruism--or any philosophy or idea--only exists in our consciousness if some variation of it had survival utility for our ancestors. That means there's a high stakes dramatic scenario behind every idea we entertain, no matter how seemingly trivial. Even if you say something absurd as a response--that trait to say that absurd thing was passed down from some chad or sneaky gamma male generations ago.😂

[@Postmailer]

Did Aristotle basically say this when he said that only the rich could be truly virtuous? Maybe the “theorem” is “proven”- its probably not materially important either way, the proportions of that would be impossible to determine on a case by case basis Aristotle takes it to the place where it is useful, or, at least his idea is capable of being tested in the real world

[@FrancisGo.]

@@Postmailer Aristotle. Aristocracy. That sounds about right, but he ended up someone else's servant. Maybe he said something more nuanced than that? I'm out of my depth. I'm not quite living the life of the mind. 😅

[@1sihingable]

Thank you!

[@sharoncurran6622]

Shuchen Xiang is a really interesting philosopher, I hope to reveal influences me. 'Chinese Cosmopolitanism' excellent book.

[@esanch29]

I don't know if this is necessarily philosophy but I'm going to explore the Sapir-whorf hypothesis but apply it to physics

[@labradax]

Keep up the good work!

[@jurafa]

Philip K Dick blends Christian and gnostic theology with drug culture and questions on the nature of reality very interestingly

[@Misserbi]

I almost want to come to DFW's aid knowing he used his brand of philosophy when a political advantage was being served up. I feel for that because I know it is about money. He was catered to early on (like most writer's are early in their lives to succeed) but his achievement paled in comparison to successes of the soul. His soul was reduced in a way he could only resurface in a corrupt fashion not like his old nature. I think that is exactly what is going on in the world today. Corrupt politicians think they can rule moments and veer away conflict like it was a God-given right. Who feels like the arm rest where you sit to change your head?

[@ohBwGuy]

Norm Macdonald slip?

[@zacnewford]

cool john mayer shirt

[@gonzothegreat1317]

Sometimes the old man is just an old man.

[@jamesstevenson7725]

What B.S. 😂😅😂😅