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Stop being politically correct.
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>Saad was born in 1964 in Beirut, Lebanon, to a Jewish family. His family fled to Montreal, Quebec, Canada in October 1975 to escape the Lebanese Civil War and Antisemitism.[6]
Of course...
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Will do, faggot.
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>dude capitalism is totally congenial lmao
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Can someone please tell me if it is true or not that Stirner is actually Engels alter ego?
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It is not true. There was a biographer who tracked down people who knew him. He was just one of those many people who never had a photo taken of him. Or if he did it was lost.
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>>9185738
thanks
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>>9185738
how would they know, if theyd never seen a photo of him?
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>Be me
>Raised like the typical millenial
>Shitty public education
>Never even required to read a book
>developed shitty short attention span
But... I started reading and i loved doing it, yet i find it incredibly hard to focus, and i'm also kind of lost, specially when it comes to filosofy.
So my question is, how can i change my situation and where do you think i should start?
Pls help.
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You should start WITH THE GREEKS
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>>9185628
>he thinks his awful upbringing is 'typical'
Step 1. Don't be born into a prole family.
Step 2. Enjoy life.
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>>9185628
You should start with short engaging books, and try to read a dozen of page without letting your mind be distracted.
I would recommand The Stranger for a short simple fiction and "Apology of Socrates" if you're looking for philosophy, it's also a short book and nails pretty much what Socrates was about (I find it pretty inspiring too)
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Apparently he spoke at my university yesterday. There was zero advertisement that he was speaking and he spoke to the Design Media Arts school, not philosophy or political science. What the fuck is his fucking problem?
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He's a Marxist
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>>9185608
Dude speaks in like a hundred universities a year. Not his fault your departments have shitty marketing
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who cares it's all computer simulation anyway
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What was /lit/'s least favourite part(s) about middle and high school level English classes? I'll start
>Having to annotate the book
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Having to listen to the teachers take on what they thought was symbolism.
>Her room had blue curtains. This means she is sad.
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>>9185460
>What was /lit/'s least favourite part(s) about middle and high school level English classes?
books written by non-males
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>>9185478
idk man, Ayn Rand??
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Catholic Theologians and their Works 2017-03-04 12:33:24 Post No.9185457
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Catholic Theologians and their Works
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I'm looking read the best works of the best Catholic apologists in history, in order to increase my efficiency at refuting the faith.
Please help
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>>9185457
Summa Theologica - Aquinas.
Good luck :^)
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>>9185470
Thank you :)
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>>9185457
>reading with preconceived conclusion
Enjoy your confirmatory bias, pleb :^)
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I have a choice between 4 novels.
>Fools of Fortune
>The Adventures of Augie March
>The Victim
>Voss
Which novel do I choose?
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My bad, it's 5.
>The Golden Bowl
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>>9185343
I don't know any of these 5 books so I'll pick the one with the most appealing name:
Fools of Fortune.
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ITT: post your favourite book of all time
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>>9185300
I see One Hundred Years get very high praise, but what does /lit/ think before I spend my hard earned money on it?
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>>9185369
OP here. It's a difficult read at first but once you get into the flow of it it's hypnotic. By far the best examples of imagery and lyrical prose i've ever read. If you're into magical realism this is like the bible of that genre
LACAAAAAAAAAAAAAN
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don't bother
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>>9185146
whoa calm down dude
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>>9185146
i feel as though this may in fact be a positive cry of joy rather than a negative one
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is it ever ok to be prideful?
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>>9185140
>is it ever ok to be prideful?
To live, is to have pride, so I would hope
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What would you do otherwise? Manipulate yourself into feeling differently?
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>>9185140
Not /lit/ related.
I'm not great with Kant. Some fluency, but nothing serious. Schopenhauer's prologue to the first edition of The World as Will suggests a deep understanding of Kant as a pre-requisite. I'm reading Schopenhauer for some work due in a few weeks, so I don't anticipate being able to read through all of Critique of Pure Reason in time to read all of The World as Will. I'm in the library with a copy of Critique. Where should I go? What are the must-read sections/parts to lay the groundwork for Schopenhauer? (I'd rather not get into a debate on the merits of either if possible.)
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Nvm I'm reading something from the Schopenhauer Cambridge Companion. Hope that'll do for now. Immanuel will have to wait
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Do you think Schoppenhauer followers and Hegelians can ever be friends?
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>>9185111
I believe Schopenhauer lays out his interpretation of Kant somewhere in there, in his critique and attempt to "fix" Kant's system, so you might not even need to go outside of The World as Will. That's what Nietzsche did, anyway.
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Literature should be experienced firstmost, understanding is less than secondary.
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Because you say so.
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>>9185100
Because I know so child.
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Nice false dichotomy. Understanding is a part of the experience.
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>haven't read a book in close to a month since uni started
>last book I read was 150 pages long and took me a whole fucking week to read it
Goddammit how do you fuckers find the time?
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>>9185029
Good question. I want to know, too.
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>>9185029
Well, you could be reading right now instead of browsing /lit/
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I manage to read an hour a day while majoring in engineering and working 14 hours a week. I read far more during the summer, though.
I'm single now and have no social life, though. Whenever I have a girlfriend I end up giving up reading due to preferring to study mathematics, which is another hobby of mine
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>that guy who opens old books and sniffs the smell
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>that guy who opens old books and farts in the pages
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>that guy who pulls out his hairs and closes them in old books to "keep a dna record"
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>>9185021
>>9185036
>that guy who farts in old books and sniffs the smell
What are some books about Buddhism? I really find this religion interesting and want to learn more
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>>9184952
Treasures of Buddhism by Fritjof Schuon.
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Recently i bought a book called 'Nectar of the Bhagavad-gītā' wich is a synthesized version of the content of the gītā made by some Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, along with his meditations on the text. Which brings me to the question... are there any texts atribuited to Siddhrtha Gautama?
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Jack Kerouac - The scripture of the Golden Eternity