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Who was arguing which position?

Both were overly reductionist autists who failed to recognize that no one would be happy even if their naive goals were achieved.

>>9442170
It's probably a lot more important to distinguish between qualitatively worse pains than it is qualitatively higher pleasures.

Otherwise you end up with the absurdity of the whole "it's better to torture one person than have a significant enough number of people get dust in their eye" thing, which is the big nail in the coffin for straight hedonism.

So, Mill is edging it, but also working in entirely the wrong direction. Bentham a shit.

>>9442105
Roger Ebert read it 7 or 8 times. Plenty happens, you just went in expecting or wanting a book that it wasn't. Your fault, not the book's.

t. internet addict with ADD

>>9442126

Why is Roger Ebert so important to Americans? He was a film critic for fuck sake. Who cares

Main Currents of Marxism by Kołakowski

>How do I get a good grasp on marxism?
Well, by carefully reading Marx, really.

> I wanted to read the works of the Frankfurt School (such as Adorno), but I feel like I'll miss out on too much.
You don't need a indepth understanding of Marx for most critical theory since they don't really focus on hardcore economic analysis. Some basic knowledge of psychoanalysis and you are set for the Dialectic Of Enlightment. For Negative Dialectics some knowledge of Hegel will help.

>>9442102
Watch these lectures from Yale on Marx, they're really comprehensive

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pD163Nr_tOk&list=PL2FD48CE33DFBEA7E&index=9

It's episode 9 to 12 in the playlist

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pastiche

A pastiche is not necessarily humorous, and even when it is, it is primarily imitative.
The second meaning is rarely used.

a parody that is made out of affection for the referenced material

No one? aww

>>9441994
Submission

Author? im trying to find it

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The girl sleep around, dirty superficial, ratchet,
Podcast worldstar, datpiff social media feed,
Face marked upon, stare like hit by the hatchet,
Swamp-ass bottomfeeder, return her back to sea.

Sickly communicative,
Misbehaves, they call her bitch cunt,
Always manipulative,
Cast her, away with the little litter runt.

Sputter sprock fuck this bumbaclot rock,
An example of why evolution should stop,
When a bitch like that gets upon loose cock,
Wobble and rock, a baby 9 month drop.

Welfare hoes.

hey its a me, the cool guy guy

All the people who work from home, comfortably but gently motivated to do what they do, get paid, earn their living and sometimes on the side a hobbyist career which can bloom into something financially worthwhile like their world tours, album sales, bestseller listed indie development comedic monologue sitcom plays that earn a million each day starting from modest places and with immodest questioning -- is it fulfilling or sustainable, a no is likely your answer, but with constant pursuit and professionalism, with getting your ass out of bed early in the morning and without distractions, people manage to do what they do from the comfort of their home. Small beginnings to achieving dreams of grandeur, the keys to success and living a life full of content enough for a self-help book on achieving your dreams. If I can do it so can you. Anyone can achieve what they want if they set their mind to it. Go in search of your dream. Be the best you can be. Be the change you want to see in the world. Etc. Etc. Etc.

Yet I stay here browsing 4chan to see if my ironic thread gets any one-word replies commenting on how funny I am, hoping that tomorrow will be different.

1. Both.
2. It's normative, not descriptive.

>>9441812
elaborate answer 2

follow up related question not from op, when did using 'she/her/etc.' in philosophy become a trend, who started it, why and is it dying?

Start

With

The

I have similar thoughts. Almost everything I read is old, which makes me think that I'm not giving newer authors a chance, thus contributing to the death of literature

I'm also reading through the classics. My plan was to work my way up to contemporary literature, but I don't think that's realistic. I think I'll instead try to read the canon and new works concurrently.

I have actually truly fallen for the start with the Greeks meme and I have been studying Attic Greek heavily for about 2 years. I can now read Attic and Koine Greek relatively easily with a dictionary at hand (which I need to use about once per page, on average). Other dialects are tougher, but not particulary hard once you get a sense of the sound changes.

I read in Greek and English about the same amount per week (~8 hours each), but I read Greek at perhaps 1/4 the speed. So about 20% of the content I read is classical literature in original.

I do this for mental exercise mostly, but I think reading ancient literature is important. Once I started getting very well-acquainted with classical literature, all of the rest I read made far more sense in the context of West. My day-to-day life remains the same, but I genuinely feel that it allows me to get much more out of what I read because of a better ability to understand the changes in thought and its implication throughout newer texts.

On a purely aesthetic level, Greek is massively beautiful, which often makes reading in it doubly rich, for the aesthetic beauty and the content itself. Every day I thank my former self for embarking on this project.

Anyone else here study classical languages to good effect here? I can't comprehend Latin to a useful level, but I've started to add it into the mix lately.

he was autistic

>>9441653
white boyz cant handle a little sun and a little allu snackbar bantz

Autism

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>>9441570

reading books written by Nazis doesn't make you look cool or edgy, it's just sad.

kys

>>9441570
I am having an exam on Heidegger as well. Have been reading him for a while though. I heard William Blattner's commentary is rather good, although I don't have much experience with english commentaries (eurofag). Also, Derrida's lectures on Being and Time have recently been translated and compiled in an english volume and they are fairly interesting.

But with Heidegger there is no substitute for reading him on his own and in depth.

>>9441578
>Nazis get to power
>"Either pledge your allegiance or get the fuck out of Germany before we kill you"
>Einstein, Strauss, Arendt, Hesse, Mann, Neumann, etc. (scandalized): "Goodness gracious I'm leaving!!"
>Martin Heidegger: "Huh? Yea sure heil Hitler I guess"
>Kxeeps going on with his studies while being revered as the most brilliant mind in his country, receiving honors and money by the regime.
>A Nazi
TL;DR: just cause he didn't leave doesn't mean he actively supported the ideology behind Nazism, he was just comfy right where he was
Also, if anything a point could be made for the second Heidegger, surely not Being and Time

is it?

>>9441455
it is

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>>9441394
Think again bucko.
The final pill is rainbow.

>>9441358

Kant's Transcendental Idealism

>>9441358
>String theory
>Intellectually rigorous
It's openly mocked for being untestable and unprovable

>>9441358
magic realism.

they both claim to be a thing, there are people who unironically work in both fields, and pretty much everyone else either doesn't understand them or considers them masturbatory wastes of time.

>>9441275
Glanton's

>>9441279

He was too good for this world.

The Child. I wish the Child had never died, and I wish it had never fathered the Man. I miss innocence, ;_;

d-delete this...

Tolstoy

Tolstoy

>Reading all this literature and still being insecure about things like this.

>>9441188

I don't have a favorite favorite but

Borges - A Universal History of Iniquity
Dick - VALIS
Faulkner - Light in August

I know the Borges pick isn't everyone's favorite but it was a revelation when I first read it.