What does /lit/ think about pic related? Other than his gigantism and eyebrows.
Hopscotch is fucking brilliant
Ulysses of the 60s
>>9234215
argie here. is it? what makes it good? I haven't read it yet, I've heard mixed opinions
Surprised Vincent Cassel hasn't played him in a biopic
The universe and everything in itself is my will.
The universe is my will and everything in itself.
The universe and everything in itself is my will.
The universe is my will and everything in itself.
>>9234189
take the
redpill, cuck
My interpretation of universe shapes my experiences
Be mindful and let no thought go unchecked.
>>9234189
Op is
A faggot
>tfw ywn read his "On Negroes" essay since he burned it because it was too redpilling
Is there a worst feel? Maybe is better this way...
"I here express my opinion that a white colour in the skin is not natural to man, but that by nature he has a black or brown skin, just as had our forefathers the Hindus; consequently, a white human being has never sprung originally from the womb of nature, and therefore there is no white race, however much this is talked about, but every white human being is bleached. Driven into the north, which is strange and foreign to him, and in which he exists only like exotic plants, and like these requires a hothouse in winter, man became white in the course of thousands of years. The gypsies, an Indian race that immigrated about four centuries ago, show the transition from the complexion of the Hindus to our own. Therefore in sexual love, nature strives to return to dark hair and brown eyes as the archetype; but the white colour of the skin has become a second nature, though not so that the brown of the Hindus would repel us."
- Arthur Schopenhauer, The Metaphysics of Sexual Love
>>9234124
>tfw being white means you are above nature
feels good, subtle redpill you got there, Schop
>his dad was a Jew
>Grandparents were Jewish
I thought we liked him.
What happened, /lit/?
>jewish dad
By Jewish law, the child is only Jewish if it's passed on from the mother, therefore Marx is not a Jew
Marx was a spendthrift who simply didn't want to work.
>tfw you think /pol/ is ridiculous, but on the other hand a lot of deliberately untraditional, un-Christian thinkers were Jews
What are some good books on the life of Julius Caesar?
Try Suetonius and Plutarch if you are ok with primary sources.
>>9233948
>JuliusCaesar.jpg
>>9233948
The conquest of Gaul
... But as God created Man and Woman so too He fashioned the hero and the poet, or orator. The poet cannot do what that other does, he can only admire, love, and rejoice in the hero. Yet he too is happy, and not less so, for the hero is as it were his better nature, with which he is in love, rejoicing in the fact that this after all is not himself, that his love can be admiration. He is the genius of recollection, can do nothing except call to mind what has been done, do nothing but admire what has been done; he contributes nothing of his own, but is jealous of the entrusted treasure. He follows the option of his heart, but when he has found what he sought, he wanders before each man's door with his song and his oration, that all may admire the hero as he does, be proud of the hero as he is. This is his achievement, his humble work, this is his faithful service in the house of the hero. If he thus remains true to his love, he strives day and night against the cunning of oblivion which would trick him out of his hero, then he has completed his work, then he is gathered to the hero, who has loved him just as faithfully, for the poet is as it were the hero's better nature, powerless it may be as a memory is, but also transfigured as a memory is. Hence no one shall be forgotten who was great, and though time tarries long, though a cloud of misunderstanding takes the hero away, his lover comes nevertheless, and the longer the time has passed, the more faithfully will he cling to him.
No, not one shall be forgotten who was great in the world.
--- Kierkegaard
Well /lit/, are you the hero or the orator?
Neither, I'm just the common man
Somewhere, somebody churns out all of these Wojack and Pepe pictures. Was it you, your excellency? As for Kierkegaard it just looks like a word salad to me, my dear sir, but then I am afraid that I do have pleb tendencies. Can I be something other than a hero and orator? It take's all types to make the world so's I reckon!.
Holy fuck, Kierkegaard is a good philosopher.
Putting the author aside, is this worth reading?
>>9233867
bumping. this book is pretty far down on my to read list but id still like to know what people think
>>9233867
Depends on what kind of novels you like to read.
>>9233867
how would you put the author aside
>>9233786
He wasn't short.
>>9233796
>But he was still a manlet
Emperor King of the manlets
MAY 5TH - 1/2
He has passed. As stark and still,
When the mortal gasp was given,
Lay the unremindful spoil
Whence so great a soul was riven;
So the Earth, smitten and dazed
At the announcement, stands amazed
Silent, pondering on that last
Fateful hour; nor, gazing back
In fearful wonder o’er the past,
Kens she when with such a track
By mortal foot shall yet be pressed
The dust upon her bloody breast.
My Genius saw him on a throne
In flashing splendor, nothing said;
The blandishments of fortune flown,
He fell, he rose, again was laid;
While thousand voices then awoke,
Mingled with these, no word he spoke;
Virgin of end-serving praise
And the coward’s safe outrage,
Shocked by the blot of such a blaze,
He rises now his chance to gage,
Shaking the urn, e’en to untie
A canticle which will not die.
From Pyramids to heights alpine
Flashed that god’s swift lightning-stroke;
From Manzares to the Rhine
Rapid, crashing thunders broke,
Rolling on from Scylla’s sea
Shaking farthest Muscovy.
Was this, glory just and true?
Sentence waits posterity.
Bow we to the Highest’s view,
Willing us in him to see
Stamped a trace more vast and grand
Of His own resistless hand.
With hurricanes of anxious joy,
Earthquake exploits of wild renown,
A heart in unsubdued annoy
In slavery gloats upon the crown;
And gains the goal and grasps a prize
‘T was madness there to set his eyes.
All he tasted; glory growing
Greater after great embroil;
Flight; and victory bestowing
Palace; and the sad exile;
Twice in the dust a victim razed,
Twice on the altar victim blazed.
He made a name, two centuries, set
Armed against each other and
To him turned as for their fate,
Waited a signal of his hand.
He sat between them, hushed them still,
Made arbiter his iron will;
>history repeats itself
how did this become such a huge meme?
>>9233753
You've got the article open, OP, you tell us.
>>9233753
Because humans like to see patterns
>>9233753
Time as an Arrow, Time as a Circle, Time as a diffuse mist without direction.
I don't know if anyone sincerely holds the fourth option, that nothing changes. Heraclitus could get away with that in ancient greece when there was no sense of history or technological change, but it seems like a pretty laughable position now.
Should I actually hang myself if my thoughts align almost perfectly with this narrator?
>>9233748
No, but you might consider therapy and reading more Dostoevsky.
>>9233748
read more Dosty. If your thoughts align almost perfectly with his other characters too, then yes, get the noose
What are some books that are like anime?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_novel
Ulysses, if you read it right.
the lovely bones
>Questions that cannot be answered are not worth asking
What do think, anon?
>>9233716
Retarded in most cases, as the means of answering those kinds of questions usually come about by the very fact that they're consistently asked.
>>9233716
How can you distinguish between answerable and unanswerable questions?
>>9233725
That's another of those stupid unanswerable ones!
Anybody read John Gray? I'm enjoying reading this crusty old bastard. If you like Chinese philosophy, you may like him also. If you like...uh...just about anything else, you might not.
Related links:
http://www.spiked-online.com/review_of_books/article/the-shallow-nihilism-of-john-gray/15999#.WMbx60ud7wI
https://www.ft.com/content/b7f10bdc-7a92-11e2-9c88-00144feabdc0
On Progress
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuWi-TU_sFE
On Hobbes and McCarthy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oUypxGUD7M
tl;dr nihilistic English philosopher uses a Chuang Tzu stance, kicks humanism in the balls, contemplates butterflies, accrues flak.
So while the Taoist disarmament of gnostic fantasies is probably warranted, if you listen closely you can hear Jordan Peterson's teeth grinding together at this idea. This, however, is one of those situations where I don't think Peterson's thought aligns with what he is fighting against. JP might be inclined to dismiss Gray as just another washed-out nihilist, but if that were the case this might be uncharitable; Gray is actually criticizing people who have taken gnosticism too far, where they begin translating Sort Yourself Out into political theatre, which is where things get messy and bloody. Which is a thing Peterson also understands.
So JP would probably not like Chuang-Tzu, because little there is going to involve the mythic journey Peterson urges; but this is exactly the reason for caution, since how do we know we aren't deceiving ourselves, or others, when we begin these mythic journeys?
Maybe it seems crazy to even involve Peterson here, but basically I just have a hard time dismissing the man outright. Or maybe it's as simple as: West, suffering for your individualism; East, not suffering for your individualism. And never the 'twain shall meet. Could be. The point here is not that one is better than the other, but that *both* are going to criticize the *bogus* individualism that comes from collectivism and ideology; Peterson by focusing on the gnostic, and Gray by disavowing the gnostic. That's how I think I see it, anyways.
>nice blogpost, scrotum-head
>thx
>esp that reductive east-west bit at the end
>*salutes*
>>9233670
I picked up a copy of Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia at a booksale recently, might just check out his other work
>>9233670
Read this recently
Great if you want to better appreciate Conrad.
I like the bit about the daisy planet and it's moral implications re: Gaia - read: forget the planet, it'll be fine in the end, it's us that are fugged. Great if you want to feel indifferent about pandas and worry more about Bangladesh.
He's only very subtly humanist in that way and I love him despite my very humanist sjw sensibilities. He's very European - like I can't imagine these insights coming from amerigoround any time soon and I don't know enough about Chinese philosophy to really penetrate your post.
>>9233670
I enjoyed him as well. He's like a less pessimistic Ligotti.
There is a likely chance that political philosophy ends with this post, because I think I just solved it.
1. A political ideology is a set of beliefs.
2. People who subscribe to an ideology, to a large extent, also hold those beliefs, and become part of a school of thought.
3. There is no objective truth as to which school of thought is the correct one.
4. When member of opposing schools of thought collide, they debate, but neither can present an irrefutable argument for their ideology.
5. A belief in a particular ideology implies one would want to see their ideology implemented.
6. When a particular ideology is implemented, there is resistance from those who disagree with it, which leads to compromise or rebellion.
7. The only way to avoid these problems is for members of the same school to unite and to implement their preferred system, and for everyone else to choose the particular nation which operates under the system they prefer.
8. There can be no unhappiness living under the ideas with which you agree.
∎
>>9233619
>People who subscribe to an ideology, to a large extent, also hold those beliefs, and become part of a school of thought.
No
>3. There is no objective truth as to which school of thought is the correct one.
No
>4. When member of opposing schools of thought collide, they debate, but neither can present an irrefutable argument for their ideology.
No
>5. A belief in a particular ideology implies one would want to see their ideology implemented.
Holy shit no
>just, like, move out
Fuck, hadn't thought about that before.
Welp, OP solved politics.
Point number 7 is where you miserably fell like an idiot
Successful academics, please give me some of your best methods of retaining information for written examinations. I'm studying A-level English Literature, History and Philosophy and, though I know my understanding of these subjects is fine, my memory is not great and I am terrified by the very large amount of precise information I must remember before this June. What are some revision techniques that have served you well? Forgive me if this is not the most suitable board, I don't venture out of /lit much so I trust this one the most to give me a good answer.
>>9233608
>I'm studying A-level English Literature
4chan is 18+, fuck off
>>9233612
I turned 18 in December.
>>9233608
read the Art of Memory by Frances Yates