Best works on international law?
>>250894453L here. Honestly don't bother. I personally found the subject interesting, but if you are even remotely historically literate, you will never be able to escape the impression that the entire discipline is a postwar academic project that just does not fit reality. That said, if you had to go with one "introduction" to the subject, go for>Justice Among the Nations: A History of International Law - Stephen NeffThe standard textbooks used to teach international law in the English-speaking world are>Brownlie's Principles of Public International Law>International Law - Malcolm EvansThese books are decent at explaining the concepts, but unless you have a legal background or plan to do practice in the field, I wouldn't recommend them.
>>25089445de civitate dei
>>25089569America Just used International Law to legally arrest Maduro. Try Again.
>>25089839Based and informed effortpost.Listen to this guy OP, international law doesn't reflect the situation on the ground, Blumpf literally ordered the kidnapping of a head of state at the beginning of this year and yet he hasn't gone to trial for what is clearly a terrorist act. The rules based order is a sham, laws are arbitrarily applied on certain countries while others who break them go unpunished.
>>25089569Law and power are two sides of the same coin. Or perhaps more precisely, law is an opinion that you can't disagree with without consequences due to it being backed by power. As long as a hegemon has the might to enforce its opinions as normative rule outside of its borders...who's to say that there can be no such thing as international law? Power is international insofar that one is able to project it, and therefore so must be law.
American literature is to european culture what 'Meet the Spartans' is to Zack Snyder's '300'.There is a severe lack of nuance and a vastly underwhelming understanding of life, which speaks to the type of rustic, frontier civilization the USA was when compared to the mature, often grim reality of industrializing Europe. It is like americans do not understand the european literature, and can only connect to it on surface level. I went in a reading binge of american literature last year, and I can summarize it:>cowboys and hillbillies >we want the Jane Austen audience >literal parody of european masterpiece >remember slavery?>GenX pseudo-existential drivel>urban noveau rich pump tale that got taken too seriously America could never have had a Dostoevski or a Proust. The idea that an american could write books that are, in essence, the author wrestling with various demons of his life having an arduous debate over his troubled soul is too much. Japanese literature, in its relatively shorter span that it has been diffused in the West, is much more akin to european tradition. American literature, much like its civilization, is still in its infancy, while uncontrollably claiming that they should sit with the grown-ups.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>25088004Thats because we Americans have a sense of humor while Europeans do not.
>>25088682Sense of humor is the greatest sign of an untested mind.
>>25088745shut the fuck up retard
>>25088004It is actually the opposite, modern Euro lit is infested with the knowledge they have been surpassed, overlooked, forgotten by American innovation, industry and growth. We run world culture (Koreans are but a blip and thank us for not being North Korean). Our Lit is about taming the harsh land through hard work. And the world loves us for it.
sensation is empirical intuitionrepresentations are affectationspure intuitions are time and space and empirical intuitions are appearancethe categories are ontological and transcendentalthe synthesis sequence is epistomoligical the apperception is the realization"1, 2, 3" is one number
>>25089373>reads Kant>thought it'd be more interesting to make it even less clear
>>25089373>"1, 2, 3" is one numberHow? I see 3 numbers. Unless he means the number 123?
>tfw I'm going to submit poems to a competition for the first time everFeeling very nervous about this bros. Anybody else ever attempted to publish their poetry?
>>25089572I don't want to potentially dox myself, sorry.It's a very scary feeling to submit poetry like this with my real name attached and all. I feel vulnerable, like I'm setting myself up to be humiliated or something. I've only had one other thing published in the past, and it still makes me cringe because what I published is so different to the kind of thing I want to be associated with. It was like I was trying too hard to please the reader so it came across as infantile and inauthentic or something.
>>25088714Fail upwards. Nobody succeeds the first time. If you place, great. If not, don't give up. Learn from what fails.
>>25088714> I'm going to submit poems to a competition for the first time everfuck yeah, good luck
>>25088714good luck
>>25089641Hey anon. Good luck. I'm not trying to be mean at all, but it will probably get rejected. Most things do. Keep your head up, log into submittable, and give your work the legs it deserves by submitting it to a lot of people
>The literal meaning of life is whatever you're doing that prevents you from killing yourselfSo he basically solved philosophy right? His answer is so simple yet powerful that I find myself uninterested by other philosophers now.
>>25087873your brain has clearly been mindraped by self-help utilitarianism ans is incapable of interacting with texts or ideas outside of any foundation other than muh use
>>25087862yeah but you can't solve metaphysics without God.we didn't make this place or ourselves; that's philosophy's anthropocentric error that it's been trying to circumvent for ages and gets in the way of an explanation for our (lack of) apotheosis vis-a-vis Theosis and Theocentrism.
>>25087860baby first philosopher
>>25088758>we didn't make this place or ourselves;We only need to consider what we have been given to know what to do. Even when we got the understanding of the process of evolution all it brought was more truth on the virtue ethics of the ancients: promote life, your life, happiness through that, and obtain power to promote it is the only real truth that matters, but don't shun and detest society too much to the point where you go back to being detrimental to your self.
First you need to establish why killing yourself is bad
I'm reading the Codex Askewianus and I dont get it.The book is saying seems to say that earth originally existed as a barren rock until comet like spirits or aeons crashed the planet and produced life by generating small extensions of their own soul.So, the entire world is basically sentient, with the aeons embedded deep inside it, making Earth itself conscious. But the soul that animates life was stolen it doesn't belong to the aeons and the purpose of life is then a mechanism to transform solar energy from the material domain into spiritual energy. All living beings serve as intermediaries but humans are special because they generate the most conversion of solar energy into soul energy, also all souls borrowed by the aeons but the aeons are borrowing something they stoleThe soul, can ascend independently, and Jesus mission is to guide or rescue the soul. So each ascension into heaven diminishes the aeons sense of identity because they lost a part of what they consider their own soul so they will always try to resist Jesus indirectly, because they cannot oppose himComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
Stories which contain coquettish seduction.Good evening. I have a very specific fetish which i hope has had some literary prevalence. Namely, i really love the idea of a "hero" being tempted to stray from the righteous path or his grand quest by an incredibly sly and attractive femme fatale that can easily "lead him by the dick."I am looking primarily to blush and jerk off but optimally i'd like something with a worthwile story as well.Not contained to fantasy, i liked that one part in the sequel to Ender's Game where he has to battle his raging instincts to remain celibate.Do you know any such novels fitting the description? Thank you in advance.
>>25085854For some reason I'm sceptical that the guy suffers from mucoviscidosis because of animated pornography.
>>25087161Thank you anon
>>25087396well i mean yeah, thats par the course of being a redditor, which most of them are.
>>25088250happy reading
>>25085854>Moralfaggot dilating Ok fag. Go like men elsewhere.
Why is this novel so often overlooked?
>>25088341Kind of crazy how extreme of a moralist he was given his personal life
>>25088425Kind of crazy how morality is being applied to Orwell for writing 1984 while the immoral rulers of the current 1984-like world rape and eat children.Like, are you getting paid to smear him?
>>25088595lol
>>25088187Haven't read it, but the wanting seed is also overlooked
>>250888951985 and The Wanting Seed seem like more accurate depictions of modern Britain than Brave New World, 1984 or A Clockwork Orange
OP has a bit of a trouble. I'm having a chapter where the characters speak a foreign language, which is of course translated to the reader. How should I go on with this, trying to get the best of both worlds? Is it a question of formating, or should I just give up and say "they are speaking foreign, but this is what they're saying:" and proceed to dialogue. The other language is russian.If you have any good examples I should take note from, I would greatly appreciate it.
im such a fucking newfriend, I didn't know tee-bee-aitch turns into desu lololol
>>25089717Everyone has smart phone live camera translaters these days. Dispense with the footnotes.
>>25089741Nw senpai
>>25089742I seriously don’t want to pull out my fucking phone when I’m reading
>>25089746Yeah, I would never have a reader pause the reading. That would be very clumsy and take away from the experience.
What is Austen trying to say here? Darcy knows he and his friend, who is comparatively of far lower standing than Darcy, are making disadvantageous marriages, with the Bennets being parvenus and all. Darcy, despite being stated to be a fine master of Pemberley, does not seem to take into consideration how the marriage will impact his descendants and the livelihood of his household. He just does it out of fondness for Elizabeth. Wickham is lambasted as a fortune hunter when the Bennets are really only one level above that. From a male perspective Austen seems to be saying you should marry who you love and should ignore your pride, but that is not a very good lesson especially if you are a person of Darcy or Bingley’s standing. Elizabeth is not the type of person someone like Darcy should consider marrying, even if he has a deep fondness for her, because of her personality and her family, and her being prejudicial. As a member of the gentry he has responsibilities to consider above his own desires.
>>25087857God already joined them together, pre figuratively.
>>25087857Go to question 28 in the summa theologicae. Aquinas states that the story of men and women having been originally joined but then separated and that marriage is the closest and most acceptable union to recompense this has a Christian metaphorical nature.
>>25087861>>25087876Aquinas can such a fatty with his Aristotle fanboying, that contradicts the word of Christ himself that in heaven the saved will neither marry nor be given in marriage (a statement he gives in response to a Sadducee who tries to catch him out for his belief in a world to come via an argument presenting the exact above idea of union of souls as absurd given the possibility in the law of remarriage).
>>25088197Aristotle got snyched into Christianity way early, just read Boethius'
>>25088197Here is the direct Aquinas quote if you were wondering.>> Again there is a union, which is the effect of love. This is real union, which the lover seeks with the object of his love. Moreover this union is in keeping with the demands of love: for as the Philosopher relates (Polit. ii, 1), "Aristophanes stated that lovers would wish to be united both into one," but since "this would result in either one or both being destroyed," they seek a suitable and becoming union—to live together, speak together, and be united together in other like things.https://www.newadvent.org/summa/2028.htm#article3
Boomer and gen X women on suicide watch.
I want forbidden books that reveal the secrets of the universe. I don't want books anyone has access to, such as some ghostwritten memoir on some politician's life written at a 1st grade level.
>>25089453Is she just standing on the floor, not even on the first ladder rung? Pathetic picture.
>>25089533it's a man. 6'1 man. >>25089453you can't understand the secrets of the universe
>>25089453there is no secret knowledge, there is specially no secret knowledge waiting specifically for you to find it out.
>>25089453Read "Analysis and Assessment of Gateway Process"Not necessarily a book but it's probably as close as you can get to "revealing the secrets of the universe"
>>25089453There’s no such thing, everything important is commonly available and known to the extent it can be
>Our final words yesterday had to do with the Godhead; I: “I must believe in it--my unworthiness and my happiness lead me to believe.” He: “The first part, your unworthiness, you can cross out; Godhead is Nature, the will which seeks salvation and, to quote Darwin, selects the strongest to bring this salvation about.”
>>25089676>The first part, your unworthiness, you can cross outarrogant>; Godhead is Nature, the will which seeks salvation and, to quote Darwin, selects the strongest to bring this salvation about.”nonsense
>>25089684you worship a dead kike rabbi on a stick because some other kikes told you to
And where do you become tumescent during your automanipulative sequences? Virgin Johnson and Willy Masturs have the answers.
>>25089132To lonely alienated you, of course.
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>>25089690First /pol/, then /lit/ is in the book.
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>>25089702>May I touch your cock and honor it?kek
What's the point of reincarnation? If I was a chinese fisherman in my previous life then that person is dead because I can't remember anything about his life
>>25086715What's the point of life? There isn't one, and there isn't one for reincarnation. Reincarnation is just an inevitability. You cannot escape samsara. Enjoy the rest of your eternity
>>25089440Why end suffering?
Can't you fuckers go bother /his with your faggotry?Here, a book suggestion: The years of rice and salt by Kim Stanley. It'll even answer a chunk of your questions.
>>25089618Nta. First, the actual word in the Buddhas language is dukkha. It encompasses nearly all forms of "suffering" like grief, but also just not feeling fulfilled. Or a paper cut. To answer you: suffering in and of itself has no value, i think most can agree on this. We endure it for our wants and it will nearly always be required here in samsara(cycle of birth and death), baring extraordinary circumstances. You will have lives where things are amazing and loving and you get your dick sucked by a harem of 22 blonde virgins, and you will have lives where your a Vietnamese rice farmer with no legs. It goes on and on and on and on until you decide that it is not worth it anymore. But when you get out of the cycle you still exist as an individual(contested by some buddhists) and you will feel a type of spiritual contentment/bliss that I'm frankly not qualified to describe. Basically, if you still want ephemeral worldly pleasure then suffering comes in a combo pack. If your starting to tire of the flashing lights and baubles of the material world. You seek a way out of samsara, for something ultimately greater in the beyond. Most folks focus on maximizing pleasure and minimizing pain. Which is fine for them and no one should make them try to seek enlightenment or anything. Whether in this life or in the millionth, they'll get tired of the never ending wheel. That means seeking the end of dukkha.
>>25089618Buddhists believe whatever peace and happiness comes with nirvana is a greater happiness than whatever joy could be found in the worldly life. So even if you enjoy life with all it's ups and downs, they would argue you're living in delusion and missing out on a greater bliss.
