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Everyone says that you ought to be your authentic self. But what if your authentic self is an asshole? Would it not be better, then, to pretend to be nice to people instead of being your blunt self, especially when said people are paying you?
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>>9377799
Just be yourself bro
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>>9377799
this thread is my favorite books
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if you'd actually read heidegger you'd know that authenticity is an experience of guilt that significantly attenuates freedom and being with others
so just shut the fuck up is what i'm trying to say
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What does it take to be a man?
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>>9377625
a benis
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To walk 500 miles and walk 500 more.
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A solid moral interpretation of experience in general (world as will).
> Greatest Writer
> Greatest Philosopher
> Greatest Poet
Go.
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>Objectively God
>me
>O'Henry
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>>9374086
>Dosto
>Nietzche/Kierkegaard
>Milton
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>Giordano Bruno
>Giordano Bruno
>Giordano Bruno
This guy is currently kicking my existential ass.
How did your reading of Nietzsche translate into your everyday life? Did you even tried to let it change you?
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>>9372064
I found out that he is right about all the problems and not even wrong about any of the solutions. He just failed to deliver on his magnum opus completely.
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>>9372068
You mean Zarathustra?
I haven't read enough to get the whole thing yet.
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>>9372121
No, I mean The Revaluation of All Values. The magnum opus he announced multiple times that never came to be.
Zarathustra is just something that was championed in retrospect because he could not deliver.
There's a reason why Nietzsche is generally associated with nihilism more than with an answer to it. He didn't have one.
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Post literature maymays
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>>9363061
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>>9363072
kind of right
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>>9363061
>make me feel burning rage
>humour thread
Fuck you
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Why does /lit/ hate this book again?
Is it because it can't understand the multiple layers of genius in it?
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>>9384200
I hate it because it's that one classic that normies use as a claim to fame, because they all read it in school. And it's really not a very good classic to begin with: the prose is nothing special, and the themes are not that deep. It's not a bad book, but it's not at all comparable to most of the stuff that is discussed here.
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>>9384200
It's not really hated, but it's one of Capote's lesser works.
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>>9384213
So you hate it because it's popular?
wew lad
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>nothing really matters.
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Define nothing
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Define really
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Define matters
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>We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
woah
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>>9384105
Beat you to it
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>“Everything I know, I know because of love.”
holy shit....
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>>9384149
damn...
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How do i become a better poet?
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Every time i write is starts out ok but eventually it turns into shitty hip-hop tier lyrics.
for example, i tried writing a poem about how nobody shares my hobby of listening to music, but the last two lines where
>I'm the beta, you're the alpha and omega
>If this was pulp fiction, i'd be Brett and you'd be Jules Winnefield and Vincent Vega
What should i do? Should I read more books? Start sharing my poems on lit? Become a soundcloud rapper? Help me /lit/
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>>9383979
>Start sharing my poems on lit?
please no
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Idk about english. But if you speak french you should start reading works written in alexandrines.
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you must stay in the zone where you are not aware that you are in the zone
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I'm studying philosophy and literature at school, but I'm finding philosophy so interesting that I am absorbed into it to an extent that I have lost my passion for literature. I still have to study both subjects though, so what can I do to regain my interest in literature?
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read The Floating Opera. its funny, philosophical and light.
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read Sebald and Dostoevsky
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The true enlightment is reading Camus and Dostoevsky and realising that true wisdom lies in fiction
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Rousseau's Discourse on Inequality-Summary Chapter by Chapter
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Where can I get a chapter by chapter summary of Rousseau's Discourse on Inequality, Currently cramming in an essay related to it and Spark notes doesn't have it and other sites make you pay. Thanks for the help.
(Also feel free to make this a discussion thread too so this thread serves a greater purpose than just the quick help I need.)
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Jacques Derrida's Of Grammatology is the book you're looking for
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>>9383830
There's a chapter by chapter summary of Rousseau's Discourse on Inequality in there? Found the Grammatology Pdf and I didn't see Rousseau's work anywhere in the table of contents
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>>9383814
Are you free OP
Or am I gonna have to force ya
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>read Neitzche's "beyond good and evil"
>agree with all his points
>go outside
>see flyer in comic sans
>know that that there is true evil in the world
>all of nietzchean philosophy undone by a shit-tier font
I don't get how Neitzcheans last so long with their delusions about there being some lack of absolute moral values in the modern world.
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>>9383773
>Neitzche
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>>9383773
Can someone give me a quick rundown on Phil?
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>>9383789
i wanna fuck him
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How does this picture make you feel, /lit/?
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>>9383425
Like this. :(
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>>9383425
Is that Bismarck or a picture of an elderly von Hindenburg?
If the former, feels for the spirit of Bismarck watching Hitler fuck up the Prussian spirit for all time.
If the latter, nothing since he was useless after Tannenberg, or at least contributed to the shitshow that was Weimar.
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>>9383435
It's a bust of Nietzsche.
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Thoughts on 2Pac's poetry?
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Sucks dicks
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Im glad he's dead
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>>9383191
Can I ask, what the fuck is up with this new movement to label music poetry? Bob Dylan annoyed me, but in the radio and cultural stuff that I have been reading lately, there is an obvious push to create a hiphop canon, and it always includes kanye.
I mean, i like gold-digger i guess, but its been on like 4 NPR shows and in the NYRB and New Yorker recently. How stupid do they think the intelligentsia outside tenured faculty affirmative action hires are?
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>there are no comfy lit jobs anymore or in fact any lit jobs that pay a decent wage apart from a small number of university positions or in fact being a moderately succesful writer
>everything with decent salary moved to IT
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That is a good thing
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>>9383198
why?
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>>9383187
lit jobs are part time jobs which are paying just enough to stay alive in a small apartment while writing, reading, and day-dreaming in your free time