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The Sorrows of Young Werther is probably the most /lit/ portrayal of romanticized suicide. It inspired a craze of suicides when it was published

>muh rape culture
>deep

>>9365923
I didn't like it. It felt very obvious. Even Goethe disliked it later in life.

>>9365876
Probably because you're fucking retarded. Just a hunch though

>>9365876
George Berkeley A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge

16. But let us examine a little the received opinion. It is said extension is a mode or accident of matter, and that matter is the substratum that supports it. Now I desire that you would explain what is meant by matter's supporting extension; you say, i have no idea of matter and, therefore, cannot explain it. I answer, though you have no positive, yet if you have any meaning at all, you must at least have a relative idea of matter; though you do not know what it is, yet you must be supposed to know what relation it bears to accidents, and what is meant by its supporting them. It is evident support cannot here be taken in its usual or literal sense, as when we say that pillars support a building; in what sense therefore must be taken?"

Like... Do you guys find that this prose is good because it is good, or that it is good because academia has a consensus that its good?

It really is no wonder why Philosophy in general is shit on.

t. philosophy major

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>>9365887
>calls me retarded because I can't take seriously the works of 17th and 18th century philosophers

Merriam Webster has a colloquialisms dictionary.

Collocations dictionaries for ESL speakers are good enough. You can also use a grammatically tagged corpus.

Why would you want one of those anyways?

If you're an ESL student who feels is too advanced to use ESL materials, you probably need them more than anyone. If you're an aspiring writer, you shouldn't use words you're not familiar with. If you just want to look up words, Google is good enough.

>>9365810
thx

I actually learned English at 6-7 but my memory is really bad so it always slips my mind the best phrases or idioms to use in conversation. I need to look through a dictionary and commit to memory my favorite ones.

>>9365823
That's a terrible idea. A dictionary defines words and expressions; it does not teach you how to use them.

If you're not a native speaker, you shouldn't use educational resources developed for them.

Better ideas:

>Learn idioms using OUP's In-Use series
>Subscribe to English teachers such as Shane Peterson on Youtube and learn one expression a day.
>Read books and keep a vocabulary notebook with your favorite expressions.

Also, the active vocabulary of any person, even a native speaker, will always be limited. Forcing yourself to use words will make you sound stilted in conversation.

No use.

>>9365767
No.

>>9365767
You...nincompoop!

I bet they don't even define what good or evil are.

>>9365724
"Did We not assign unto him two eyes
And a tongue and two lips,
And guide him to the parting of the mountain ways ?
But he hath not attempted the Ascent -
Ah, what will convey unto thee what the Ascent is! -
(It is) to free a slave,
And to feed in the day of hunger.
An orphan near of kin,
Or some poor wretch in misery,
And to be of those who believe and exhort one another to perseverance and exhort one another to pity."

--Qur'an 90:8-17

But aside from the quote in the picture, what do you think of the Qur'an Code? It's remarkable even if you don't believe.

>>9365710
My favorite is the law prohibiting two guys from talking to each other while shitting. We like to think most of today's problems are minor inconveniences that only someone born in our time could experience, but nope. There's always been that awkward guy who tries to strike up a conversation while you're straining yourself to take a dump.

Too many third-rate comedians, almost no readers. That's this board's problem.

>>9365707
thanks for feeding me bitch

>>9365709
He's stared at the void so long, he's a shit poster.

check my dubs

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>>9365673

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Stop being phallagocentric.

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>US, Turkey, Poland and Japan - The new great powers

>>9365614
If you want to get an idea of how the future is going to be like, read Nick Land

Is there a book similar to this one written in 1910 so I can have a laugh

>>9365560
we are all fashy goys in here. makes sense, as /lit/ appreciates western art and culture, marxist sjws want to destroy western art and culture, and /pol/ are the saviours of patrician western culturecivilisation

>>9365581
>patrician
>says goy

go back to /pol/ faggot

>>9365586
we are all fashsters in here. fash gang represent my goys

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>>9365558
Coffee without milk.

>>9365558
There is no such thing as an all encompassing statement, all statements have innate opposites. For example, lets use the statement "Trees are tall". The natural negation and antithesis in this case would be the statement "Trees aren't tall" which is nessacarily implied as the counter-statement.

I'll explain the negation in terms of dialectical materialism and hopefully you can jump from there into idealism (unlike the Marxist that thinks Hegel only exists to have given dialectics to Marx)

The negation of the negation is that in a failed revolution, negation, you will receive new knowledge that allows us to create a new one that hopefully succeeds. This also disproves people who use the USSR as a point against Marxism; we must learn from the mistakes and successes of the past in order to secure the future.

For proto dialectics, look up Heraclitus and his fragments that finished philosophy in antiquity.

>>9365542
Kama Sutra, motherfucker.

>>9367134
I prefer the Karma Sutra

>>9368286
I'd say read the Corncob Suttree instead

>>9365534
Give up now.
If you don't intuit what's funny, there will be no way to teach you. Most stand-up routines and sitcoms rely on a single ruse: you think one thing is going to happen, but then tangentially related other thing happens –– and the juxtaposition of the two is funny.

>>9365543
I dont want to be taught I want to refine my skills

>>9365534
read screenplays for comedy movies

>>9365505
Wat

>>9365562
> obsession with pop culture
> population is hopelessly addicted to electronic widgets
> dumbing down of general discourse reflected by the awful dialogue
> cringey oversimplification of morality

ernest cline nailed the zeitgeist. pity he can't write.

>>9365640
ready player one would actually be kind of brilliant if it were a satire. i don't think there's any way to read it that way, but for anyone who argues that art is about author intention this book is a pretty good example of the author unintentionally making something interesting.

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she seems like the kind of person to be unexpectedly cool

>>9365368
>writing for an audience
You're doing it wrong.

>>9365389
What i mean is will there be an audience to read a play if.i did write one?

Is it possible to get published?

>>9365303
>post-nick land theory

what did he mean by this?

holy shit i just looked it up

smash the neurocentralist patriarchy

demand equality between brain hemispheres

cis-brained shitlords must die, no fascist frontal lobe

etc

>>9365318
I think that's more Xeno-feminism