The results of the 2025 poll for /lit/'s Top 100 books.It was a lot of work running the polls and making the chart, but it's worth it to keep this board's annual tradition alive. Thanks for voting!
>>25011361>>25011374>>25011482It was no. 8 last year
>>25011537Still my point stands
>>25008097That's a fake profile. It's obvious from a mile away. It looks like a cartoon character created to spout nonsense.Most likely, the Indian company that creates these profiles did so on behalf of Israel and its international disinformation agenda.
>>25010838Chapter two.
I think it's a big mistake to let people have as many votes as they want. You should vote for your top 3 max. People I think just voted for every book they read lel
> Those who reject at once the method of Wolf, and of the Critique of Pure Reason, can have no other aim but to shake off the fetters of science, to change labour into sport, certainty into opinion, and philosophy into philodoxy.
>>25010500Back off the wagon and looking for attention on the Taiwanese basket weaving forum already I see
>>25010500why are you always angry? wtf did you expect from a peruvian llama shearing forum?
the normie mind cannot handle german metaphysik
>>25009862*Rapes you*How about now huh?
>>25008739>anything that cares about history, semantics and prejudice is philodoxycall me a philodoxist rather than a philosopher
How come the rate of readership keeps declining but Barnes and Noble just keeps getting more popular over time
>>24982356the whole 'performative reading' thing is a meme on social media right now, or maybe it's dead now cuz these kids move on fast desu. What I mean to say is, this vid is obviously a joke. She's not trying to convince you that she's recounting a real scenario she encountered, she's just trying to contribute to the meme. Good on you for not using instagram enough to figure that out though I guess
>>24982353>"Performative men could be here" she thought
>>25009643lmfao
>>25006864How to shoplift books without getting caught??
>>25008689I honestly forget. We just had one I think in November/early December, maybe. For some reason I want to say they have it twice a year, but I could be making that up. I don't pay a lot of attention to that shit. I just check the calendar a day or two ahead of time, and that's when we'll get things set up. Even though that's one of our biggest sales that we have and people look forward to, there's always some nonsense going on, so it's kind of a day to day thing for me.>>25011372No shoplifting, please. Don't be a fucking nigger.Day off today, lads. Hungover. Watching football and probably will read a bit later. Hope everyone is having a great Sunday!
Best rebuttal to picrel?
>>25010876I don't think Cromwell or the Netherlands admired Jews, they just felt persecuting them couldn't be reconciled with the Bible. Cromwell had zero problem persecuting other Christians though, whereas Milton and the Netherlands didn't do thatCrusoe is just going by what he was taught. When Friday asks him about why God doesn't simply kill the devil because of all the problems causing Crusoe says he will on the day of judgement and Friday said why not today and Crusoe literally says he pretends he didn't hear him because he has no idea. This in spite of the fact Crusoe has been stranded for decades with no reading material except the Bible Crusoe has no issues in his conscience going to a Catholic Church, after he gets off the island and travels through Spain on route home he explicitly says he goes to Papist services during his stay there. Crusoe is concerned that in Brazil if he tries to form a protestant congregation then he would be imprisoned which is true
>>25010491well I was unaware of that, probably need to read Peter K. Massie's biography on him. anyways, this thread is getting off-topic.
>>25011250lol, no they don't
>>25011182based and rushdoony pilled
>>25011689where does Rushdoony state these claims?
Seems way better at squaring reality than gay materialism
>>25010487Shut the fuck up and go read Hume, child.
>>25010618>Got so butt-blasted he became Fatrick.No child, it is you that needs to stop sucking off Kant and find a real philosopher (like Aristotle), enjoy prison, stalker.
>>25010221>about>isn't contradictedThis is just to say the belief corresponds, in other terms. Which is fine, if I'm having trouble understanding what the word means.Guess what I'm more pointedly asking about is the nature of the correspondence relationship, HOW exactly does thins correspond, what is going in, is there a mechanism?, how do we tell the difference between something that corresponds and something that does not, etc But here I just get the same answer - that it 'corresponds'I get the gist, I get how people usually use these words. But I'm very skeptical of there being an actual thing, 'correspondence'
>>25010633Hume refutes your extremely primitive version of empiricism.
>>25005652HAHAHAAHAHAHAHA, The single experience of seeing such a distorted face and the allusion that he might have something to say about how to live my life is beyond hilarious
What book do you read to prepare you for death
>>25007537Spend time with your family nonny.
>>25007537if i had a century to live i'd do everything and as much i could possibly do to live life to its fullest extentif i had a week to live i'd jerk off all day and gorge myselfso no, i'd read nothing probably. maybe just pornography titles.
>>25007537If I have one week to live, I'm not reading. I'm self publishing all my novels while fucking high school girls.
>>25010949i’m not american. how old is high school?
>>25010951like 13-17.
>makes redditjaks seethe because he tortured animalsKek
>>25011072you just know this nigga had that extra chromosome tantrums my guy built retarded
>>25011153Unc got that ForsenE build
>>25011072I like kicking my cat
>>25011428>makes shit up>it's proven wrongmakes ya think what else he was wrong about
>>25011645maybe read his fucking BOOKS to know, dumbass
they hated him because he spoke the truth
>>25011660He was pale gouty fat man who wrote obsessively of acts he dared not commit and literally rotted to death.
Kantianism is midwit philosophy. Nietzscheanism beats it as the high IQ philosophy
>>25011283nobody differentiated it like kant did... he came up with the whole problem of synthetic judgements a priori
>>25011283>>25011304This. Nobody before Kant asked how synthetic a priori judgements were possible.
>>25009229>categorical imperatives, but he's just echoing Epictetus who introduced the ideaThis is so wrong it's amazing you even blathered it out.
>>25011523i genuinely think it's a chatbotit follows the pattern of confidently stringing semi-related words together in an ordering which makes no sense if you know anything about the subject
>>25007447>>25009204Pretty sure Anon is talking about later Chinese metaphysics (in a roughly Confucian tradition that had mixed with Taoism and insights from Indian thought), not the Analects per se.It's the principles of qi and li that come to look a lot like form and matter, actuality and potency, etc. Add in some insights from luminous mind Buddhism and Hinduism and you start to see a convergence towards the "Neoplatonic" consensus that dominated late-antique Western Pagan and Christian thought as well as medieval Christian, Islamic, and Jewish thought.>Zhu Xi maintained that all things are brought into being by the union of two universal aspects of reality: qi (氣, sometimes translated as vital – or physical, material – force); and li (理, sometimes translated as rational principle or law). The source and sum of li is the taiji, meaning the Supreme Ultimate. The source of qi is not so clearly stated by Zhu Xi, leading some authorities to maintain that he was a metaphysical monist and others to maintain that he was a metaphysical dualist.>According to Zhu Xi's theory, every physical object and every person has its li and therefore has contact in its metaphysical core with the taiji. What is referred to as the human soul, mind, or spirit is understood as the taiji, or the supreme creative principle, as it works its way out in a person.>Qi and li operate together in mutual dependence. They are mutually aspective in all creatures in the universe. These two aspects are manifested in the creation of substantial entities. When their activity is waxing (rapid or expansive), that is the yang energy mode. When their activity is waning (slow or contractive), that is the yin energy mode. The yang and yin phases constantly interact, each gaining and losing dominance over the other. In the process of the waxing and waning, the alternation of these fundamental vibrations, the so-called five elements evolve (fire, water, wood, metal, and earth). Zhu Xi argues that li existed even before Heaven and Earth.[18]We can speak of substantial form here but also of the paradigmatic causes, the eidos that resides in the absolute unity and actuality of the Dao (Logos) but which is many in the material order (logoi versus Logos). Unfortunately, later medieval thought in the West tended to calcify these distinctions and a lot of knowledge was lost during the wars of the Reformation. Nowadays, many trained philosophers even only understand the old via antiqua as a sort of shallow strawman and so are stuck in endless debates (idealism versus physicalism) using shitty early modern categories. Alasdair MacIntyre's thesis about our losing ethical language could easily be extended to metaphysics, and technological progress (which began before nominalism) has simply papered this over. This is why today we have so much new techne but no idea how to use it to actually make us happy; instead it makes us ever more miserable despite all its uses.
Is there any other book that has a chapter that is so jarring and out of place that it lowers the enjoyability and quality of the book as a whole?
>>25011606Grapes of wrath turtle
>>25011606I'm not brown or self hating so it didn't bother me at all.
Books about beauty?
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Temple of the Golden Pavilion
>>25011223That's a book about an unreliable narrator. You were fooled by your weener, anon.
>>25011214History of Beauty - On UglinessUmberto Eco
my diary desu
Any books that will help me cope with the fact that I will never be a true genetic chad?
Hey /lit/ what books did you read last year? We're there any that stand out in your mind?I've been reading a lot of Sci-fi lately. Early last year I read J.G. Ballard's High Rise. I enjoyed it's themes of class and cultural tensions but I agree with the criticism that it could've been a much shorter book. I read Downward to the Earth by Silverberg. I liked it better than Man in the Maze. It reminded me of some of the more interesting concepts from Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card. Man in the Maze and Downward were both a bit of a let down compared to Dying Inside. I read Valis by PKD over the summer and was really impressed. PKD had some misses for me like Galactic Pot Healer. Towards the end of 2025 I also read some Murakami novels. I enjoyed his stories and characters but his style tends to make his books like an expanded universe soup with the same concepts or motifs showing up throughout.
>>25002473I only fully read three books this year: The Concept of the Political, The Dark Enlightenment, and The Accursed Share Vol. 1. All were brilliant in their own way, I still find myself rereading passages from all three. If I had to pick a favorite, it would have to be The Dark Enlightenment, its analysis of things like Leninism and the Civil War were really eye-opening. Other than that, I've mostly been reading essays and blog posts, I wish I still had the time and energy I had when I was younger.
>>25002541Based, better to read what you enjoy than read shit you hate just to impress this board
>>25011412Yeah I learned that after reading Mishima, and Goethe etc. I didn't care of like any of their stuff and realized Kevin J Anderson and Timothy Zahn are better writers
I love Robert Silverberg but he probably should be added to the modern manchild meme bait chart. Sb add it
>>25002473https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic_Biashttps://anthropic-principle.com/anthropic-bias/
>>25004335Princes of the Yen
>>25009000Have you read it?
>>25004351
>>25004335
Alain Soral's. Dugin's more intelligent French buddy
>openly defies the most powerful entity in existenceWould it be fair to say that Milton's Satan/Lucifer is the bravest character ever thought of?
>>25010874Typical quick to anger Christcuck
>>25010015Or the dumbest. The truth is, in Paradise Lost, Satan must defy God in order for God to create Earth. You can argue that his fall was preordained far before he ever thought of usurping heaven.
>>25010931ive always been interested in the idea of god requiring his creations to rebel against him. kazantzakis has a couple works dealing with it: sodom and gomorrah and the last temptation of christ. in sodom and gomorrah, lot gets fed up with god and starts to openly defy him and god tells him that he loves the little humans with their own ways of thinking and finds it entertaining that they would try to go against his will. in the last temptation of christ, judas is the most serious and committed of the disciples and jesus asks him to be the betrayer because he doesnt trust anybody else to actually go through with it.
>>25010719Christianity is schizophrenic because it tried to merge inherently unknowable chaos with a very personal sky father.This is how you get retarded contradictions ideas like “god contains everything” and “god is only good” or “god is unknowable” and “god wants you to do X, he said so”.
>>25010267No way
