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You know the one.

we get it you read the recognitions pat pat

Why did he kill himself

>>9247185
>what do you think of authors who use twitter?
I don't.

>>9247191
Even Stephen "God doesn't real and conservatives don't _get_ us kids" King?

It probably works better if you have the (((right))) opinions.

>>9247152
1 and 3 are best 4 is fine too

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I don't get they put a pumpkin colored skull in the Brazilian cover, but I dig it. It's better than those goofy clouds.

>>9247152
mine is 4

fucking plastic is freely peeling off the plain white cover, so I'll just have some pure white book at some point which I guess will be kinda cool looking.

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>humanities degree
>anywhere

>>9247141
You don't think Oxford or Cambridge is legit, even?

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>>9247137
>How do you live with yourself if you're in the first group?
I find immense relief in regularly in visiting the prospect of suicide.

I put zero effort into my courses because they are dumbed down for the lowest (and leftest) common denominator. I haven't read any of the books assigned this term, just skimmed online summaries and was conscious in class...I constantly receive praise for my writing, which sickens me every-time. It's not even the fact that the experience is such a waste of time, it's the fact that it's so simple to say what they want to hear and yet most of my peers struggle, it honestly feels like some perverse circle of hell.

>>9247115
The Norton Anthology of English Literature

>>9247119
I'm sorry, I think I wasn't clear. I meant something that tackles philosophy or art historically, just like pic related on OP. Not just works anthologically organized, but something like a history lesson that talks about those works.

>>9247115
Oxford History of Art

not sure why you couldnt figure that one out on your own

>>9246956
The 48 laws of power.

>>9246956
tao lin - bed

>>9246956
the bible

Anime is better than books.

Female warriors ruin books

Female warriors define anime.

>>9246953
>le fedora cringe

You don't need a fedora to recognize that believing in a magic sky fairy is batshit insane.

>>9246953
I have never read a book about aliens or bigfoot or cryptozoology that has satisfied me.

>>9246972
t. Fedora

>>9246949
Well sure. We're generally interested in whichever ones refer to how things actually are in our world, however.

->If eating meat is wrong, then eating your mother's steak dinner tonight is immoral.
->Eating meat is wrong.
->Therefore eating the steak dinner is immoral.

The argument is valid, but so what? What really matters is whether 'eating meat is wrong' is actually true. The real issue at hand here is you're starting off by assuming some form of anti-realism/relativism. Why do you think no axioms are truer or more relevant than others?

Also my bad if I'm misunderstanding how you're using 'axiom' here, there are two uses in philosophy.

>>9246993

I'm not assuming that some axioms are not better than others. But i acknowledge that there are infinitely many possible sets of criteria for judging axioms (and for judging criteria (as infinitum)).

>>9247005
>But i acknowledge that there are infinitely many possible sets of criteria for judging axioms

I guess, but philosophers (and many people) are concerned primarily with establishing a 'criteria' that optimally allows for finding true axioms. But yes, it doesn't matter if "X is wrong" is true if my conditions for accepting premises/axioms is based on "how useful is this for me." That doesn't make it less true, though.

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>>9246812
The Third Reich at War by Richard Evans
The Destruction of the European Jews by Raul Hillberg
Eichmann in Jerusalem by Arendt
The Holocaust Industry by Norman Finkelstein
pic related

>>9246812
>For my Holocaust class
They really are making up classes about things that never happened?

Eichmann in Jerusalem is good and pretty short if I recall correctly.

my dynabook desu

>>9246806
Laurus
Brief History of Seven Killings
On the Edge (Chirbes)

>>9246806
Austerlitz
Disgrace
Soumission
The Dying Grass
A Little LIfe

>>9246698

Thankfully you can't understand it

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>>9246698
Turks impaling the innocent.

>>9246698
Meša Selimović - Death and the Dervish
Antun Šoljan - A Brief Excursion

>>9246682

Eckhart Tolle - A New Earth

>>9246682
Pepe?

Herrmann Hesse - Demian and Siddartha

Almost any book written by a man before 1990

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why would you want that

>>9246649
Empathy is wasted on men. They're robots. Treat them like defective but occasionally useful machinery. Heavy lifting and phallic warmth they come in handy but that's about it.

>>9246646
You should really use the spoiler feature for posts like this.

Its a shit book written by a hack author.

>>9247059
How do you use them.