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26 ain't old, nor is it distinguishing, dumb ass.

>>9874591
Thank you for your contribution to my thread.

>28
>build log cabins
>Die Leiden des jungen Werthers
>Used to read primarily to experience a narrative. Now I'm able to take in a narrative while simultaneously analyzing the work as a constructed text. I think it just comes from reading so much that I began to evaluate writing as a technik instead of just a vehicle for content/feels. Also this allows me to read bad books in which I'd read good books and similarly learn from both. I have as many bad books on my shelf as good books and I keep the bad ones intentionally, they may be even more important.

>>9873652

"kys"

>>9873652
Different metaphysical axioms. Aristotle, Aquinas, Augustine, Anscombe, Feser, Oderberg, MacIntyre.

>>9873652
Peterson
Not memeing

>>9873526
Tryhatd

>>9873526
When I was a teenager, The Art of Love by Fromm blew my fucking mind.
Applied it to my life quite successfully. And sounded like a pseud cunt throughout.
Took a couple years to understand that analysts are thinly veiled sophists tho.

Ego and it's own

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>>9867699
>written from the perspective of a carrier pigeon in World War 1

fard on my dick

you can sue, but if you think you any chance in hell of winning you'd have to crazy.

Fuck off and read Kant

>>9866631
Fuck off and read habermas

were all humans and we all participate in the same rational thought. It's intuitive that the same things should be good and bad for us

>>9855070
Good taste, anon.

>>9855070

>r8

you already know that is a good stack u cheeky melon.

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How's this?

>>9855070
I'm readying The Trial now. Pretty good.

my diary desu

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>>9881215

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>>9880792
I guess I'll start opening it unless someone has any objections

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>>9880814
NO

>>9880814
JUST DO IT

That's a pretty standard observation. It's very hard to reconcile the subjective viewpoint with the objective one, and philosophy has to deal with this.

I was just reading Nagel's The View from Nowhere which addresses this issue.

In any case, we might try to find some higher view which can in fact reconcile the two. How the heck we would do that, I don't know.

>>9880375
If i was on facebook i'd give this quote a thumbs up. But that's all.

>>9880375
I'm not a big fan of these kinds of metaphors, 'philosophy is an artform'. Okay, so what is art?

These kinds of metaphors often escape scrutiny because the speaker and their audience is only an expert on one half of the metaphor. I've heard countless metaphors, a musician will say "Music is like Poetry with Sound" and the poet will say "Poetry is like Music with Words". An athlete will say "Sport is a Dance" and a dancer will say "Dance is an athletic sport".

And sure, Objectivity and Subjectivity are a fundamental problem that philosophy has struggled with for a few thousand years. But I'm not seeing anything brilliant in this description of that problem. If anything, it feels like it opens up one can of worms after another. What is Philosophy, What is Truth, What is Objective, What is the Subject, What is Perception, What is Language, What is Art, What is Science, What is a World.

I don't understand why you end on the question "What is the truth". I don't know this has to be the fundamental question "above all" other questions. "What is the Subject", "What is Thought", "What is Perception" "What is the World" are all possible "Ultimate Questions"

You're not gay. You're trans. You want to become a woman first and then take dick all day. Don't read. Buy makeup, dresses, and a dildo.

>>9880315
thanks my man (not hitting on you lol)

>>9880324
ugh

>>9880305
Oscar Wilde.

>>9880115
shieeet

since when? dude was chill and they had a great selection in general

F

>>9880115
What street was that on?

I remember this Puerto rican with half an arm gave me a handjob there.

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>>9880099
What's evil?

>>9880099
Art is independent of the artist

>>9880111
Let us assume that the causing of suffering is evil.

>>9880032
Just don't apply and read some Nietzsche

t. a former friar

the joy of gay sex

>>9880036
I've read Nietzsche. stop meming him, he's only okay.

>>9879068
For me, the key take away is him distancing himself from the ethno-nationalist, populist alt-right.

It all makes sense from outside, but for WASP culture itself – which is to say for liberalism – identity politics is madness. That leaves it with nowhere to go. The leather-face schizo-Maoism of the contemporary Anglophone left is not any kind of plausible option, but neither is anything opening up on the popular right. As the Alt-Right consolidates its passionate affair with identity, it sounds ever more like Hubert Védrine. Individualism is derided. Its suspicion of free-trade owes more to Friedrich List than to the Scottish Enlightenment. Its criticism of labor arbitrage is often almost indistinguishable from that familiar from socialist traditions, marked by the same current of moral outrage at the fact that Capital – despite itself being competitively disciplined by footloose consumers – is permitted to shop around for its human resources. Wage competition, and even price competition more generally, is an increasingly common object of attack. At its dynamic, racial edge the Alt-Right promotes solidarity among Whites, or Europeans, as if either could ever be a WASP thing. Europe is what liberalism has always sought to escape. Populism demands grievance politics, which means default antipathy to market dominant minorities, and thus – in the Western context – an irrepressible inclination to anti-Semitism. None of this describes a place that even maddened liberals can go.

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To me, the answer is some form of Powellism (limited migration, with limited government domestically) It would operate on the assumption that few non-Anglos are really interested in limited government and will vote against it if given the chance, so you embrace an element of rather illibreal identity politics - Anglo nationalism - in order to preserve a free society.

>>9879289
That's very roughly what Nick "If I was in charge of America I'd tell the Germans they need to go back" Land already advocates.

>Why is the reading standard set so low?

american kids are high functioning retards.

honestly, i was expecting comic books

>>9878917

Just imagine a committee of teachers brainstorming about how to make class "more fun"

>>9878933

It isn't their fault. When you leave them to be educated by ideological retards and absent parents exhausted from working and the surrounding culture is shit then this is the inevitable result.

>>9878948
What books would you suggest for them? I think something like "Peace, Love, and Petrol Bombs" would be good for eighth graders or high school freshmen.