Why are most philosophers leftist?And what does that say about /lit/ where people claim to be intellectual and yet more than half of posters are right wingers?
>>24940358thats the scary thing, derrida has system, he's almost autistically consistent in his rhetorics and techniques
>>24940358are you discounting my truth bb :3 kinda getting white male colonizer vibes from you who thinks objectivity is a valid frameworkeverything is a social construct even this enlightened conclusion
Philosophy is generally an intellectual, rational, and critical endeavor. Tradition does not subsist on intellect and reason. Philosophers are therefore typically out of step with the traditional inheritance of their society. Sometimes they even have to obscure their ideas for fear of persecution.
>>24940570even the tradition of being anti-tradition?
>>24936437Ahem... Hasty Generalization, False Dichotomy, Appeal to Authority, Ad Hominem & Composition Fallacy. Checked and mate bruv.
An incel grows up on blackpill/looksmaxxing forumsbut poverty prevents him from improving his psl through conventional meansSo, channeling his rage towards his classmates, he executes a columbine, making sure he can surrender peacefullyThen, under the pretense of needing to be presentable in court, he scams a bunch of money from 2A advocates to get cosmetic procedures and looksmaxx for his jury
>>24940237Tbh I’d rather be disposable than instrumentalized any day of the week. I think women agree which is why they’ve been fighting for disposability for 200 years.
>>24940237a well-executed incel novel would be the buzziest book in ages. main problem is finding a young-ish person who can both write (good luck) and walk a very delicate line, ie keep things balanced, because you don't want to tilt into 1) 4chan screedslop, 2) motherly i-can-fix-himism or 3) boomer cloudshouting. we've seen some stuff shilled on here and it always sinks itself right into the quicksand of lazy e-lingo, forced "schizo rambling" (the lowest form of writing) and tee-hee boneheaded in-jokes; intentional self-exoticization. no cojones
>>24940230Hiring requirements are now to look good as a man. Women will still be favored for positions. Every normie business owner and manager now wants to surround himself with as many women as possible for a chance to get a crumb of pussy. Men are getting desperate.
>>24940549Only a fag would want to work at a sausage party.
>>24940365The incel plants a gun on Chad's corpse and claims self defense.
There's nothing more ugly and pathetic than a writer having a self-insert. It's why Joyce will never truly be great on the level of Shakespeare or Homer. Yeah, I see Stephen there, you fart-sniffing faggot. Only an inferior writer inserts himself into his stories.
>>24939773?… you’re agreeing
filtered lmao
>>24939558Homer wasn't even a person.
>>24940395such a stupid theory.
>>24940395such a based theory
How is one to interpret Socrates vis-à-vis Plato? I have been working through the "early" dialogues and keep wondering about the meaning of Plato placing these thoughts in the mind of Socrates. Thus far Socrates comes off as both playful and precise, nearly always leading his interlocutors into simple contradictions that they are always none-the-wiser to, until the great reveal at the end of the dialogue when they are found to be staunchly refuted. How much of this is Plato attempting to truthfully capture Socrates vs. Plato arguing his own ideas through the mouth of Socrates? I have heard in later dialogues Socrates is sometimes left in a more ambiguous light, or even conveyed as having lost an argument, but I have yet to read those.
>>24937295>>24937295Claudian's extant poetry is about how great Honorius and Stilicho are, just read it to understand how great they are, don't try to evaluate them as a source for history. Academics/scholarship ruined antique poetry.
>>24940201Yeah this is pretty common even with more recent stuff Ossian's poetry was considered like some of the greatest works of literature up there with the oddessy but it's totally abandoned by the culture because of academic disputes about authorship. Academics at the time like Samuel Johnson tried to fight with the "author" macpherson and macpherson just challenged him to a duel and refused to prove anything. Macpherson is a true artist....
>>24937297>fails the basic relativism problemUnfortunately for you anon this is your own idea and not objective reality therefore by making your statement you have proved that objective reality and true ideas can exist.
>>24940271It is objective reality and not just my own idea.
>>24937316+100 shekel have been deposited to your account
“The instant that the blade tore open his flesh, the bright disk of the sun soared up and exploded behind his eyelids”
>>24939612That's the moon bruh.
>>24939612idk what this means.. he closed his eyes and fell on his back?
>>24939612I cry everytime ;-;
>Anon, you are now 8 years old>it's time for you to read this book about a man shitting his pants and dying
>>24937368I wasn't in GATE, but I am Canadian
>>24939392no. you gotta be worse than bottom 2% to be non verbal vegetables. the visable tards are closer to 1 in 1/1000 than 1/50. mike tyson has like a 70 iq or pretty close to 70 and he's semi normal. >>24940069you're gay and retarded
>>24940110>reddit spacing>gay posthow's the transition going?>>24940118gate's from like 1988. they had gifted programs since the 50s, maybe earlier, but gate's specifically due to some federal law in 1988
>>24940135individual states had gifted programs before 1988 but the federal gate stuff comes from 1988 education law
gary paulsen wrote boy's adventure KINOthe transall sagawhite foxmr. tucket
Any books to help you stop being a NEET?
>>24940053He also dunks on wageslavery and academia a lot in those, which should at least be enticing to NEET-brained individuals.
>>24939019Identify the causes write them down then strategize how to deal with those causes and find books for the specific issues
>>24939019there is not book about that, just get a job.
>>24939215wagies and tradies are the safest from ai actually. robots are just too inflexible and expensive for the near and medium future to replace them. it's low-value-add, low-agency white collar shit that is gonna be the first to go. low level coders, analysts, paralegals. no robots needed and ai models are either already superior or can be used by an ai-wrangler for >10x efficiency.
>>24939019No but you have time to ready books so why not.
I've finally got back into reading and I've been reading pic related and it really helped meat the personal level.Is there some other books that are similar?Or some books with focus on stoicism philosophy or philosophy in general and how to debate and deal with idiots?
>tfw when it's the day you get to read fences out loud in classI call the part of Troy
>>24935703>you can just say the n word or n anon
>>24935703>Author of>Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
This but to kill a mockingbird
>>24935703Mfw the teacher actually asked if I wanted to read his lines
>>24938883based
Hey everyone, I’m looking for books that are psychedelic in the sense of being mind-expanding, perception-altering, or challenging the reader’s sense of reality, rather than involving drug use.I’m fascinated by stories that explore:Alternate realities or shifting timelinesSurreal, dreamlike narrativesCosmic or existential themesEspecially stories about characters questioning the nature of reality or identitySome authors/books I already love in this style:Philip K. Dick (Ubik, VALIS, Eye in the Sky)The Book of the New Sun by Gene WolfeThe Master and Margarita by BulgakovI’d love recommendations for other novels, short stories, or series that provide a similar “psychedelic” experience without involving drugs. Thanks in advance!
>>24929478Heidegger's Being and Time Rorty's Philosophy and the Mirror of NatureShantideva's Way of the BoddhisatvaSpinoza's Ethics Stirner's The Unique and Its PropertyLaozi's Tao Te Ching>>24938539Brownian motion Not sure how that is supposed to refute Kant though I also have a PhD in physics
>>24938581>>24938539I'm the anon I'll try to simply explain why I posted this, maybe I'm completely wrong. First the most important part of the book is the discussion about >Synthetic a prioriI just want to expose my understanding of the definitions that kant uses because I might be wrong already:By defining >Synthetic / AnalyticDoes a logic statement create new information (yes/no) Example :>SyntheticAll houses in the area are blueCreates new information by combining the colour and the houses in the area. You can contradict this without creating a paradox>AnalyticEvery house takes spaceDoesn't create new information. You can't contradict this without creating a paradox Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24938973I took 1H to write this post I feel like I'll be dunked on by someone smarter in the minute
>>24931640You have never read Kant.
>>24938569I was proposing actual drugs, not drug narratives.
Just read this tonight in Goethe's Italian Journey. Apparently Goethe didn't like blondes and preferred dark hair instead. Go figure.
>>24939707So between Werther and Faust what should you read
>>24939900ntaI started with Iphigenia in Tauris and moved onto Italian Journey. Read synopses of the novels and plays to see if they'll interest you. Eventually I'll get to Faust, and Eckermann's Conversations with Goethe. Winckelmann and his Century interests me too.
>>24940087What do you like some much about Goethe?
>>24940247His insatiable curiosity didn't leave him throughout his life. I felt the same about myself, but I had to suppress it and get a damn job. He of course had a better life setup, but even he felt a little constrained by duties. Inspired by stories about Winckelmann he took off for Italy for a few years. Some people like the path Napoleon took, but that's all war and destruction. Goethe just created. Two out of nowhere characters. Goethe being the more Nietzschean
>>24939900>>24940087Don't forget Wilhelm Meister's apprenticeship. Probably his best work after Faust.
>promotes open relationships>promotes homosexuality>celebrates defiance of authority>has a strong female protagonistWhy is everything we hear about Heinlein>REEEEEEEEEE, one of the main characters is a misogynist narcissist
>>24939367Characters in a novel may express varying views while the novel still presents a coherent artistic vision. Heinlein does not do that.
The only Heinlein I have ever read was Sixth Column
>>24936154I had a chance to buy the Virginia Edition set for $300 and I didn't. I regret it.
>>24936154Grow up manchild.
>>24940072You aint lying. I forget which novel Heinlein espouses his hippy free sex space cult views in but then in The Puppetmasters Allucquere was from one of those cults on Mars where she underwent pedo abuse but once she marries the protag she becomes an ideal strong but subservient wife.Heinlein was all over the place and if it was anyone else I would accuse them of blatant trolling.
>Finally find a book club in my area>Women-only events
>>24933324>worrying about and being suspicious of the sincerity of you pets love!ALERT! SHEOL LEVEL BPDEMON THREAT DETECTED !ALERT!
>>24933939>whips out the laser pointerNo cat is a god.
>>24932909>>24933333Why is it even a dichotomy? >>24933324>Dogs love unconditionallyWHO estimates that about 30000 people are killed by dogs globally each year. It takes effort to train a dog into a safe and useful pet. >They are a species that has been bred to select for traits which result in the most severe case of Stockholm syndrome in all the animal kingdom.>Cats are at the very least honestDomestic cats are factually more inbred than any domesticated dog breeds according to actual genetic studies, with even more severe consequences for their cognition. In any case both animals are neat, cute and should be treated with care. Both animals used to think in a way that is drastically different from humans in the wild and then had their cognitive functions messed up substantially with selective breeding. People who try to project human concepts of love, loyalty or respect on animals are retards who should not be allowed any pets. They are legitimately too dumb to even conceive the idea of an organism that processes information in a fundamentally different way, and instead of at least trying they just use the poor animals as physical extensions of their daddy issues and the like. Pathetic.
>>24939377based mad men poaster
>>24939394the catfag FEARS the power of the laser pointer
Marxsisters... how will we recover?
>>24939934We'll whine like bitches on the internet.No prisoners, comrades!
Fuck off.
>>24939974filtered
>>24940188
Theory of Mind as Pure Act is a genuinely great neo Hegelian text. Shame his reputation is in the gutter cause of fascism association.
Who's up for a good ol' fashioned stack/recent cops thread?
>>24939151>then he arranged his books, took multiple pictures from a certain angle, picked one out, and posted it on 4channel thinking he was impressing strangers
>>24938256I’ve never seen that spine for the Fagles Aeneid before. Can you post the cover? The one I have is from the matching set with the Iliad and the Odyssey, didn’t know there were others also from Penguin Deluxe.
>>24939299Gotchu. It's the 2008 edition.
>>24938256>Lathrop translation of Don QuixoteHell yeah
>>24938256The Queen of /lit/ with her court of subordinates below her.
