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>>9016052
i wouldn't know, because i cannot fathom not being human (and a crude guess would say that writers can't either)

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>>9016055
shut up pleb

Post-humanism means after 'humanism', not 'humans' necessarily

>>9016052
>post-humanism

Does anyone else get annoyed by these new words that are absolutely meaningless?

For the moral consciousness itself, however, its moral attitude does not mean that consciousness therein develops its own proper notion and makes this its object. It has no consciousness of this opposition either as regards the form or the content thereof; the elements composing this opposition it does not relate and compare with one another, but goes forward on its own course of development, without being the connecting principle of those moments. For it is only aware of the essence pure and simple, i.e. the object so far as this is duty, so far as this is an abstract object of its pure consciousness — in other words, it is only aware of this object as pure knowledge or as itself. Its procedure is thus merely that of thinking, not conceiving, is by way of thoughts not notions. Consequently it does not yet find the object of its actual consciousness transparently clear to itself; it is not the absolute notion, which alone grasps otherness as such, its absolute opposite, as its very self. Its own reality, as well as all objective reality, no doubt is held to be something unessential; but its freedom is that of pure thought, in opposition to which, therefore, nature has likewise arisen as something equally free. Because both are found in like manner within it-both the freedom which belongs to [external] being and the inclusion of this existence within consciousness — its object comes to be an existing object, which is at the same time merely a thought-product. In the last phase of its attitude or point of view, the content is essentially so affirmed that its being has the character of something presented, and this union of being and thinking is expressed as what in fact it is, viz.-Imagining (Vorstellen).

I unironically find Plato more difficult and opaque.

If you don't know the german langauge in and out, don't even bother

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bump?

>>9016000
Einstein

>>9016000
Sounds like Miller to me

>>9015977
couldn't be sure it was my hand holding the book

That's not Aristotle's Metaphysics.

>>9015977
i don't need other people to tell me how to think and live my life

They didn't, they just laughed because it rhymed

By sucking on his penis

Apparently, a lot of those were slang words used by women at the time.

>asking a literature-related question on /lit/ in 2017

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>tfw finn
Finnish is the root language of all languages

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>>9015790
I've heard that the Oxford edition is at least respectable.

But, to get the most out of it, read it in finnish. Doesn't even matter if you don't understand a word, just listen to how it sounds to the kalevala tune.

Literally just be yourself: the book

In all seriousness it's pretty good, if not pretty light, a beginner could pick it up and understand it clearly. Been meaning to reread it myself

>>9015691
I found it incoherent and repetitive. Like listening to a rambling old man who keeps forgetting what he's said.

>>9015744
Isn't that most philosophy books in a nutshell? I mean, if you're expecting some sort of coherent progression then go read some fiction.

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Do whatever the fuck you want, you little idiot. I don't give a shit.

>>9015566
Man up and just read Kant already fuckboi.

>>9015584
>>9015598
fuck you little bitches, I just want to use my time efficiently

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https://www.stephencovey.com/about/readinglist.php

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>>9016145
>https://www.stephencovey.com/about/readinglist.php
The Book of Mormon? Seriously?

Is anything going to top Bartleby or is it the most godlike short story of all time?

>>9015496
There are many great short stories out there. You'll have to read more to discover others you like!

Will read. Bump

>>9015473
I use editor and wordpad

FocusWriter. Unfortunately its not a markdown editor, so if that's a deal breaker you'll need to look elsewhere.

>>9015473
Focus writer is fa good free software version of this pictured thing you have

>>9015444
a fedora

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>>9015445

l'epic of l'gilgamesh

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>>9015242

Look for our nearest comedy class

>>9015242
aristophanes and plautus are my favorite ancient comedians.

the former includes much more base humor while the latter develops roman archetypes which function similarly to sitcoms. its fun to imagine the staging of the plays too.

in order of relevance id say:

(1) summa contra gentiles: https://mega.nz/#F!6sgETKCa!vGFF5iTfCR6lH3ZLXaQorQ

(2) de magistro (on teaching): http://hosted.desales.edu/w4/philtheo/loughlin/ATP/De_Magistro/De_Magistro_11_1.html

(3) summa theologiae (main catholic tenets/virtues): http://www.newadvent.org/summa/

(4) de rationibus fidei (short defense against islamic objections): http://www.stfrancismagazine.info/ja/images/stories/7_SFM%20August%202010.pdf

actually desu if youre not too into the whole expounding on catholic virtues thing (summa theologiae which is kind of long and drags a bit), esse et essentia is good replacement/primer on the important metaphysics: http://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/aquinas-esse.asp

Give Aquinas by Feser and History of Philosophy by Fredrick Copleston a go.