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>>9774185
Which Eastern philosophies have you studied and who's writing have you read? Also have you done any secondary readings?
I can't help but think this has simple answers if you spent a minute or two actually studying it

For every irrational eastern philosopher there is an irrational western philosopher. For every rational western philosopher there is a rational eastern philosopher. Try to know what you're talking about before running your mouth, kid.

>>9774206
Confucius. Lots of statements and claims, not very much proof.

Here's an example:

>forks require you to stab your food
>that's barbaric and (metaphorically) violent
>therefore one should use chopsticks
I'm not dissing the custom, but it's not rigorous philosophy.

>>9774165
I confess, as well as having achieved what I set out to do

Ur move

>>9774165
>He reads because he feels like he's a retard and looked down on by his peers(Probably true.)

you ARE a retard (Probably true.)

>>9774165
I've actually fucked girls who were impressed by my literacy. Granted it was only after I stopped caring about that sort of validation.
And I do read for "leisure", whatever that implies. Reading a book is a step above taking a nap in terms of leisurely-ness. It's comfy as fuck.
What species of bug crawled up your asshole?

Yor feelings don't matter.

>>9774102

Shame on you for thinking that it would.

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>>9774114
Homer's feelings don't matter tho

k sorry

>>9773996
What do you class as intellectual masturbation?

>>9773996
If you're a brainlet who expresses desire to escape brainlethood, then why do you want to read inconsequential entertainment fluff books?

Der gotts. Though there's really no reason to get mad about it, most everyone who has ever read the Iliad through thousands of years knows that Paris was a bitch nigger and that's how his name will go down in history.

The Gods basically controlled the story however they wanted. It was inevitable.

The female gods all loved Paris for his beauty. Thats why they picked him to be the judge of the apple shit

You've made it, bro.

pretty much there. Start posting about how people should write and get their work published too.

oh yeah das me

>>9773911
Illiad because it's basically an episode of Dragon Ball Z.

>>9773911
That's like saying Old Testament vs New Testament. Pick one...

Odyssey because the Iliad is for plebes that need plot and action.

lacan rhymes with dumb so no thanks

I don't think you nor most of /lit/ want to hear this but I think psychoanalysis is pseudoscience so that puts him on shaky ground.
Of course, even if you use a solid scientific backing (which might be temporary) for your ideas you will still speculate and one could call that pseudoscientific, but I would prefer it.

In fact I find it limiting that we do not have many philosophers who speculate based on science. Someone like Peterson has a psychological background but for his philosophising he refers to the bible and Jung.

>>9773903
>In fact I find it limiting that we do not have many philosophers who speculate based on science.
Agreed. Why do you think that psychoanalisis is a pseudoscience?

>>9773743
>Is Homo Deus (his new book) worth reading?
I read this and Sapiens not yet. Homo Deus is speculative but I think we need these kinds of books to think about the future (which we cannot predict but at least think of scenarios)

What do you think of Sapiens? Can you tell me about the anthropology behind it? I have some interest in anthropology but it seems some of their ideas are a bit sketchy. Like the idea of societies without hierarchy (though I could agree it was much more flexible back then)

And I do not mean the idea that agriculture was a mistake I can follow that, though between hunter-gatherer and now I couldn't be luckier, yet the time between hunter-gatherer and now (as a first worlder) must be the worse

If this interests you I suggest checking out books on cultural evolution

>>9773813
Aye, I enjoyed that it didn't just assume we have it better now. It rightly points out the improvements in health and so on, but I find the argument that our happiness hasn't necessarily increased (and the question of whether it even can be) interesting.

I'd respond to more of your post but I'm not sure English is your first language. Could you rephrase a little?

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How does it stack up

It's just one retard making these threads about how we shouldn't call him a retard, right?
>>9773603
Read a book, retard.

>>9773617
Incorrect. I appreciated the sentiment and think it's important that instead of calling someone a retarded, you explain why they're retarded, and ask for their counter argument(s).

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>>9773603
Bump

>>9773587
Have a copy of Poetry's Old Air. She's a fine essayist.

>>9773630
I just got Eventually One Dreams the Real Thing, and Progress is my favorite of hers right now. I plan on getting more by her soon.

Pic-related is Gregory Fraser (my prof is a colleague) and his work is great for a lesser poet. I'm comfortable recommending his book Strange Pieta to anyone.

here's one of the few poems by him you can find online

http://www.missourireview.com/archives/gregory-fraser-the-great-northeast/

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>>9773696

>>9773444
What would you be reading for the presocs?

>>9773496
Probably the Oxford collection. I'll do the necessary research for that but like i said Heraclitus is a point of interest for me.

it doesn't sound like you have an actual focus on what you'd like to write your thesis on (which will need to be on one or two philosophers [or works even] at most). i'm a phd in philosophy and for both my MA and Phd i ended up doing something wildly different than what i had originally intended to do for various reasons. you need to find middleground between what you want to do and what your advisor's strengths are. plus you will be introduced to new thinkers and philosophical problems that will actually merit scholarly work and not just 'meditative shit.' keep in mind that you actually have to do scholarly work at the graduate level so whatever topic you work on needs to be philosophically important or relevant as well as have enough secondary resources so that you can take a nuanced position.

oh and let your coursework actually do some of the heavy lifting for you. make a chapter of your thesis one of your term papers.

tldr sounds like you're focused enough to have your toes in and what interests you but not focused enough to have a clear study path so just go to fucking class before deciding what you're going to study

>>9773375

it's for the same reason the history channel doesn't have real history shows anymore

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muthucking boring

For most humans one TEDx video is already too much
Their brains would explode if they could watch lectures on the telly

>>9773240
Wow, never thought a good book would actually be discussed in this shit place.

Still, your comment is pretty sub-par.

I couldn't even parse your comment.

>>9773280
Ask me to clarify, if you care and are confused. I re-read it and can still see what I was talking about.

>>9773280
>a good book
Ralph Ellison had an IQ of 93. This book was written by and for stupid people

>>9773185
Why was it life changing? What specifically made you change your life?

>>9773185
I think some people are easy to impress, because i keep reading on lit how much these books changed their life. I wonder if it is a thing that can only happen during the teenage.

>>9773237
This.

Elaborate, OP.