Re: does capitalism like philosophy?

On Jul 2, 12:18 pm, Leon Hoeneveld <leonh...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:
> Paul Grieg schreef:
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> > On Jul 2, 8:38 am, Leon Hoeneveld <leonh...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >> sirbl...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 schreef:
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> >>> or does it only like economics? cuz under capitalism only thing
> >>> philosophy departments seem to do is disappear.
> >> Kapitalism feeds on frustration. Maybe philosophers have learned to
deal
> >> with frustration, and then they are no longer usefull.
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> > Can't they, like Epicurus and the Buddha, teach us also how to deal
> > with frustration? Sounds useful to me...
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> Frustration is a motivator for going on. To buy more stuff, to want what
> others have, to want something new and exiting.
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> Out of frustration the teachings of Epicurus and Buddha were created.
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> But we just don't want frustration to end, or we would get enourmously
> frustrated by the fact that the frustration had gone.

Would we? How do you know?

As frustration is suffering then why would we feel upset about ending
suffering? It's like eating dinner and then feeling upset about not
feeling hungry any more. I don't have such a feeling.