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With the greeks. Sophocles and the sort.

the trashcan

Absurdism is nothing more than self-help "philosophy" for teenagers, just ignore it.

constant and all pervasive self-delusion is all that keeps me from suicide

>>9124787
Constant and all pervasive self delusion is what makes you want to commit suicide

>>9124789
EXCUSE me?! I'll have you know that I was raped and BEATEN as a child. If I WASN'T delusional and lying to myself I would be in jail for 9 COUNTS OF 1ST DEGREE MURDER??

>>9124760
one, fuckhead

>>9124760
2, fucktard

>>9124760
3, fucksushi

Wyatt is an incorruptibly pure soul, so much so that all of the ungenuine hacks around him pick up on it. Otto strives to be like Wyatt but can't, Stanley follows his example by trying to devote himself to art, everybody else who's not an irredeemable sack of shit either gets killed, kills themselves, or loses their minds. Valentine is an exception but I don't think I totally understand how his ending played out. Some kind of secret agent for the Vatican? Wtf?
I don't remember large amounts of it just based on the sheer amount of stuff thrown in there, but it's amazing and when I have time I need to read it again

Shit.

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>>9124611

>>9124519
My diary desu be honest

>>9124531
Where can I find a copy, senpai?

all of them.

>>9124476
Neolib Reptoids must Die

>>>/biz/

>>9124476
Ideology *sniff*
I'd rather read economic magazines rather than this progressivism cult drivel.

>>9124177
the pre-socratics

>>9124181
>le start with le greeks

>>9124177
avoid secondary literature
read Nietzsche's works
if you really want to get into it, read it in chronological order
if you want a gentle intro, try Beyond Good and Evil

>>9123436

Green

>>9123436
Fallopian

Ryan Fanfic-Is-For-Faggots

Thank me later

>>9123244
where did u get that moustache le pepe

>>9123244
Is it?

>>9123244
To my knowledge no one has ever made this assertion save you, who have begged a question.

I've reread Hyperion several times in different languages, and I always skip Kassad's story. It's just shit.
Priest is above all, obviously.

I guess the one about globalization (galaxization?) eroding traditional culture or the age-reversal one.

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I'm fond of this one

Not sure that question has ever bothered me all that much, but Lin Yutang's The Importance of Living confirmed me in my not-being-bothered.

>>9123154
David Bowie's overrated.

>>9123751
Pleb

Start with the greek language

If you want to read it as poetry, Lattimore. Fagles is also okay but takes less note of how the Greek poem is written.

If you want to just read it as a story, Butler.

>>9122987
First time I read it was in a prose adapted version, and I think it just made the thing go mutch smoother when I picked up the real thing.

>>9122151
Schopenhauer's 'On Women' and The Bell Curve made me realize that I'm inherently superior to 99% of the world's population

>>9122151
War and Peace did this for me. I don't know what the opposite of a blackpill is(a whitepill?), but that's what Tolstoy's work is.

The catcher in the rye

low effort and mob mentallity

>>9121925
Most people, especially among the youth, don't even have any idea on what "freedom" is. All they can think of is "free speech". I find it depressing and have the impression that "free speech" ends up weakening, if not destroying, the idea of a higher, stronger "freedom" (like, ACTING free). Fuck free speech.

>>9121958

What's the difference between free speech and acting free?

I really wonder how they translate Sein und Wesen. "Being" = something that "is" ?

Anyway, regarding Existenz, if it's the latin word existentia, then it's the 'old' way of understanding existence. Like an abstract, poor category, that applies to all things that happen to be there. If I remember, he tries to show how the notion of "existentia" is unable to correctly unveil the Dasein.

Nice thing you're doing. I think it's worth it and rewarding.

>>9121892

Some scaffolding might help:
plato.stanford.edu/entries/heidegger/#BeiTim

The preface is notoriously way more difficult than the book, if that's giving you trouble. It actually gets easier after the first 60 pages.

https://archive.org/details/Philosophy_185_Fall_2007_UC_Berkeley

http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~hdreyfus/185_f07/html/Schedule.html

http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~hdreyfus/185_f07/html/SuggestedSupplementaryReading.html