I'm starting to think that this is a perfect work of philosophy.
>>25258610>Monism is nihilismDo you retards ever read?
>>25259619Spinoza isn’t even that great. He’s just propped up for reintroducing Deism to Europe during the age of Scholasticism. There’s no real hidden insight in his text. It’s purely from a historical basis that people love him.
>>25257711Hamann and Jacobi were right about him
>>25258285he's the best expression of several interrelated but distinct ideas that floated around before/during his time is how I see him. not the first monist, but gives monism its best and fullest justification. not the first to deny the will, but does so elegantly. not the first mind-body dualist, but articulates a fascinating argument for it. not the first to deny morality, but the first to lay out a joyous, expansive, positive ethics in morality's wake. etc, etc. the geometrical style takes some getting used to. after a bit it clicks into place and the ethics turns from a ladder into a densely interlocking web. book V, "on human freedom," was one of the best reading experiences of my life after spending a month and change fighting with the rest of the ethics. reminds me of a stark moonlit winter valley with frosty stars poking through the dark above the ridgeline, and a fire down in the center, people around with white puffs of talk, hot coffee and something to eat and a circle of warmth and light floating in the austere and beautiful night. recommend
>>25257711>>25258145Spinoza was deliberately misleading because he was trying to placate the religious authorities of his time while rationally trying to break away from them. This results in him claiming in Proposition XVII of Ethics that "Strictly speaking, God does not love or hate anyone. For God (by the foregoing Prop.) is not affected by any emotion of pleasure or pain, consequently (Def. of the Emotions, vi. vii.) he does not love or hate anyone." Then, later in the book, comes Proposition XXXVI which says "The intellectual love of the mind towards God is that very love of God whereby God loves himself, not in so far as he is infinite, but in so far as he can be explained through the essence of the human mind regarded under the form of eternity; in other words, the intellectual love of the mind towards God is part of the infinite love wherewith God loves himself." Corollary being: "Hence it follows that God, in so far as he loves himself, loves man, and, consequently, that the love of God towards men, and the intellectual love of the mind towards God are identical."That's a whole hell of a lot of love from a being supposedly incapable of love. (Again, he uses the Latin word "amor" which is every bit as steeped in emotion as the word "love", if not more).As this shows, he deliberately selected misleading language. "Intellectual love"? Why use the single most emotional word in the whole language if what you really mean has exactly zero emotional content? I can't even begin to express how manifestly retarded this is.
Is there any reprint publisher worth buying from?
>>25259112They dont reprint much Not compared to the ones in op's pic
>>25259896Majority of their revenue stream is reprinting out of print books (see “NYRB Classics”) by buying those rights. Majority of their catalogue is reprint compared to their small body commissioned work under NYRB classics . The one’s in OP are POD slop and just uploading the dogshit pdf without any formatting
>>25260306>The one’s in OP are POD slop and just uploading the dogshit pdf without any formattingYeah but where else can you get a print copy of Beddoes for cheap? Unfortunately only through these people.
Dover if you aren't a mathlet.
>>25258137The paper and print quality of my edition of the Decline of thr West by Spengler printed by Forgotten Books is good. Only problem is that they swapped the odd and even pages while printing. It will bother you only slightly if you have OCD like me.
Someone lent this to me months ago and I finally got around to reading it. I guess it was meant to inspire greater sympathy for people with autism, and it kind of did, but mostly my conclusion was that "wow they really are difficult and annoying".
>Haddon states on his website that, although he had read "a handful of newspaper and magazine articles about, or by, people with Asperger's and autism" in preparation for writing the book, he knows "very little" about Asperger's syndrome and that Christopher Boone is inspired by two different people. According to Haddon, neither of these people can be labelled as having a disability. Haddon added that he "slightly regret[s]" that the term Asperger's syndrome appeared on the cover of his novel.[5] In 2010, in an interview with The Independent, he was described as>now thoroughly irritated that the word Asperger's appeared on subsequent editions of the novel, because now everyone imagines that he is an expert and he keeps getting phone calls asking him to appear at lectures.[8]lol
I read this as a kid and it helped me understand kids with disabilities a little better.
>>25258835I read this when I was about 12 ans didnt really know what autism was. I remember who the murderer was though. Dont remember the motive
I did an essay on this book in high school and though it began as an essay on the book's accuracy portraying autism it ended up being about how inaccurate the book is at portraying autism. I sourced some autistic guy's blogspot rant.
>>25259808An autistic kid in my neighborhood growing up attempted to make a pet out of a dead raven, he carried it around with him everywhere he went for a few days until someone told his parents. He said and did things like that all the time. Can't remember what he named it and it is driving me nuts.But it is autistic to view your limited experience as absolute and I absolutely believe that you are autistic. Not judging.
Daily reminder that Epicurus wrote over 300 works on philosophy, natural science and ethics that are all lost.
>>25249480>death is not here>you go into a battlefield>epicurus go fuck off
>>25249480Nobody is gonna believe me, but I came up with this quote on my own years ago without ever hearing of this nigga. I guess if reincarnation is real, I am a reincarnation of him
>>25259799Humans can only have so many ideas. They are floating around fir anyone to grab a hold of.
>>25256029Didn't Porphyry say that the bible isn't Jewish in origin and nobody had any idea where it really came from?
>>25259802Ok Jung, take your pills now.
i remember many years ago people writing here about the "natural aristocracy" that ought to be in charge. the übermensch, destined to rule over the plebs. money is might, might is right and they are might. those who have reached the billionaire height ought to sit and dispense commands from their ivory thrones, as is their right.so here's your übermensch, beyond morals, beyond good and evil, the destroyer of nihilism.
>>25260302> WHY DONT YOU MURDERBOT GOLEMS DO AS WE SAY WE WILL REPLACE YOU WITH AI
>>25258473>epstein>has the most resources of all humans on earthpffft LOL what is this laughably ignorant underage opinion
>>25258473>money is might,There‘s the part which pins the desire for some noble leadership to the corrupt functionaries of today; and which people have a very legitimate grievance with. Even if they‘re unable to bridge the is-ought gap it remains very dishonest to pretend either that the distinction doesn‘t exist or that they don‘t see it.
>>25260303Zio-posthuman world domination unironically.
>>25259015He seemed to have been an utter top class conversationalist/socialit, could've charm the pants off anyone.
>It is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to lie mangled by the bronze spear. In his death all things appear fairdid the goyreeks really romanticise sending their children off to die for agamemstein?
>>25260415>send your children to die for our pedophile mystery cult, but its le based and neoclassical pilledThe real redpill is when you realize that Epstein's role as a 'fixer' for relationships, the weirdly insular sex lives of Americas elites, and Stanely Kibrick's eyes wide shut are all analogous to Plato's ideas about selective breeding in the Republic. Think.about it, have you ever actually seen proof that "The Greeks" existed, or did you just believe what (((they))) told you your entire life? Yeah, right, all of human thought and accomplishment is derivitive of a handful of minor city states that existed 4,000 years ago in bumbfuck nowhere. That definitely sounds real.
>>25260415They didn't, the only writing that survives represents the view of the Greek élite, the equivalent of the modern "you vill eat ze bugs" class
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>>25254381Excellent, so I haven't missed it. Hope I remembered my tripcode. Nice to see this is still running! Wtf are the new captchas
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>>25257494>bumpbump
Are they seriously just printing books on shittier paper with worse bindings and charging more? Why the fuck would you go to one of these stores and pay $20-30 for a new paperback when it's printed on fucking recycled toilet paper.
>>25260473If you are African American, sure.
>>25259710No. I refuse. (Actually okay I totally do.)
>>25259705humanity is done. We are in the plastic age. Tartaria was the last attempt at neo atlantis and that failed. Capitalism will rot us all into the orc age. A planet of swarming arachnid vampires with orc brains cannibalizing each other and the planet for survival. Tolkien was right. We were doomed. It will never get better. We should pray for extinction cause either god doesn't care about us or we abandoned god or god abandoned us.
>>25260381Wrong. This roody poo lives on crypto gains. Now I'm taking time to into equities, so I can give all my money back to tradfi counter-parties far more intelligent than I am.
>>25260538Very doom and rather Lovecraftian, I like it. You should write more.
E-Reader thread? Does anyone like/use them?I’m looking to get my first one, and the general recommendation seems to be the Kindle Paperwhite.How easy is it to hack? Is it even worth hacking? I generally don’t mind paying for books if they’re formatted correctly (I’ve found some pirated copies over the years that have had horrific formatting, almost to the point of looking like some schizo’s journal).
>>25256450i recently got one and i can only say good things about it. incredible value for the thirty dollars i paid for it
>>25257023FUAAAAAAARK! I'm teetering on being convinced...>incredible value for the thirty dollars i paid for italso I thought he says $70 in the video
My new, Pocketbook Basic Lux 4 has been an absolute delight and works great. Knock on wood. Reading a book about giant, killer crabs and really enjoying the page turning buttons and sensation of quality of the device.
>>25257036i had been eyeing it for a while and i was ready to pay the 70 dollars, but i happened to be in china recently and there i found it being sold for something like 35 dollars. i think you can get it for about the same price from aliexpress.as far as i can tell the only difference is the fact that it comes preloaded with the chinese firmware which does support english but comes with chinese particularities such as needing a chinese phone number to sign up in their app.regardless, you can (and really should) flash a custom firmware which improves on the few issues i originally had with it (better text rendering, much nicer ui, better wireless file transfer).
>>25252992KOReader is unironically all that you need and I'm more upset than I thought I would be about the fact that my X4 can only run Crosspoint and not KOReader. It works, I guess, and it's only a 4" screen but I want a 4" screen with KOReader too.
Who remembers the Star Wars: X-Wing books? I thought they were pretty good! Corran Horn is the perfect arrogant ace pilot, navigating biological warfare and courtroom drama.
>>25256267I'm saying the guy who praised the EU's shittier writing decisions (>>25255114)is no better than a Disney shill.
>>25255053I just started the first book today so I'm very happy to see this thread. It's really good so far. The only thing I don't like is the prose: Stackpole literally uses epithets like "dark-haired woman" and "blue-eyed man," which I find annoying.The only other EU books I've read were Darth Plagues (probably my favourite), the Thrawn Trilogy (good), The Labyrinth of Evil (good) and that's it.I want to get back into EU, but it really saddens me that those books and comics are not canon anymore. Surely, there is a lot of subpar garbage, but when it's good, it's good.I've also read some Disney stuff like Tarkin (Luceno, so automatically good) and From A Certain Point of View (eh... meh?).I now have a CHIM approach to Star Wars canon. If you are familiar with Kirkbride, you'll know that he stated that TES canon is whatever each individual fan wants it to be because CHIM. I basically achieved Star Wars CHIM. My canon is not EU or Disney Canon but whatever books, comics and games I like, plus some fanfiction. EU and Disney canon are official fanfics anyway, considering how they can be decanonized in any time (like the Clone Wars comics were replaced by TCW cartoon).
>>25255053The first four are great. The next three by Allston are better. These books were a gigantic part of my childhood growing up and I would do crazy go stupid things to see them animated by a competent studio and ignore the entire ST soup just to make them canon again.
I'm about a quarter of the way into the Shadows of the Empire novel. I played the fuck out of the N64 game as a kid but never read the book, it's been interesting.
>>25255214You really did, X-Wing is peak EU space adventures. Bacta War alone is rollicking good pirate fun.
she good?
I remember liking Memento Mori and The Ballad of Peckham Rye. both very dry cynical comedies in which complacent social groups are sent into a state of upheaval through an encounter with the inexplicable (the latter reminds me of Pasolini's Teorema in a way but rooted in a working class milieu). I would read more of her but it just hasn't been a priority
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>>25258177Based
She's an utter bitch and a genius at structure. Generally if you like any of the other popular bitches of the era (Waugh, Greene, Hamiliton) you'll like her because it's all terrible people having terrible things happen to them in a comfy fashionBasically if you like laughing at spite it should be good, I think anons might just not like Miss Brodie because it's a very Mean Girls type book
>>25258585>the latter reminds me of Pasolini's Teorema in a way but rooted in a working class milieunow I need to give it a read
What’s the best supplementary material/commentary on the phenomenology of the spirit?Pls no Marxists/historical materialism
>>25259387I don't think Kojeve is distorting Hegel at all, but he's the only Marxist Hegelian I'm aware of, so I probably should have modified my earlier statement.
>>25259374>>25259394Not for nothing, but Kojeve's student Stanley Rosen, who published two excellent books on Hegel, is forward about Kojeve's interpretation being unsound to the texts, and Kojeve in a letter to Strauss reveals that his lecturing approach was as interested in being shocking, provoking, and paradoxical. He's one of the most interesting Hegelians of the last century, but that didn't translate to being accurate to Hegel's word.
God I wish I had the time to study, work, and also study Hegel as well. Maybe I could but then I'd have no time for anything else;.
>>25260355thank god you don't or you'd end up like us—or worse.
>>25260372I just installed Obsidian, I think I already like it more than OneNote since it looks much cleaner on my small monitor. I have PoH in my work desk I'm gonna read encyclopedia of sciences at home.
If Kant were alive today what would he think about the esoteric kantians?
>>25257860>you are evidently still perplexedjew friend, i've been joking a lot today, but i truly am perplexed. help me out. throw me a bone.
no, i don't think anyone liked that very much
>>25257960well it’s pretty overt to say the least that the figures produced by the understanding, in Hegel, is knowledge of the sort you cannot trust or rely on. all who genuinely seek are entitled to try and learn…what would you like me to speak of?
>>25258643strawberry frosted sprinkle donuts
he would be a gooner
*ends leftism*
>>25261017Right wingers aren’t the ones who are having a meltdown lol
“Yes, the brain isn’t the same person to person-“400 posts later
>>25261071Yeah it’s bizarre how people will go so far arguing against the most obvious shit. It’s so fucking surreal. These people single handedly hold the human race back with their sheer stubbornness.
I'm going to eat 100mg of THC and watch Gattaca.
>Sterilize the feeble minded poor and abort the negrost. Margaret Sanger
Hegel can't adequately resolve his problem of labor alienation, bondage and the master-slave dialectic, only Marx can. Hegel's attempt as resolution of wage slavery is just cope. Thus any completion of Hegel requires Marx. Hegel might even honestly have agreed but he also had his career to consider smd do had to say the post-Napoleonic Prussian state was the summation and end of history
>>25259996>mom I made another Marx thread again!
>>25259976I'm not gonna bother, since you're feeling obtuse and think it's unnecessary to take the thread argument that's actually happening. Feel free to square the circle by defending OP's statements at>>25259818>>25259853>>25259862At their word and using only the Lord and Bondsman section.
>>25260269OP wins by default since you have not quoted an alternative resolution that Hegel supposedly offers
>>25260319There wasn't an "alternative", there was what Hegel actually said toward the end of the Lord-Bondsman section, and you brainfarted and posted unrelated shit from the end of the book. Embarrassing to call that a "win."
>>25260356The work is holistic and characters the process of phenomenological dialectic of the spirit, and conclusion with its overcoming of alienation. How is that section unrelated to the process of alienation articulated earlier especially when he brings up production's relationship to said alienation?
