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Was he truly the last philosophical genius 2016-10-07 21:04:35 Post No.8594423
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Was he truly the last philosophical genius
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2016-10-07 21:04:35
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for better or for worse, if you agree with his ideas or not?
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of the 20th century no one comes close to be honest
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yep
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How was he smart?
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Does /lit/ like H.P Lovecraft? Can anyone recommend me some of his works?
Thanks!
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ever herd 'o' South Park?
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>>8594405
The TV show? Yeah, I watched a few seasons. I like the newer episodes more than the old ones in my opinion.
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use the archive we have this shitty thread every day
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>need to say Balzac aloud in class
>scared I'll accidentally say ballsack
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Don't worry, people will laugh at you regardless.
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>>8594387
Is Mike Stoklasa /lit/?
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>offend somebody with "ballsack"
>hears "balzac"
>thinks i find him intellectually attractive
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is the crying man book good?
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he's not crying and no
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>>8594383
he's trying not to laugh at dank memes
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He's cumming
Hey /lit/, it's October now and I'm feeling spooky.
Does anyone know of some good werewolf literature. Fiction or non-fiction.
I just read The Howling and was really disappointed.
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>>8594375
All genre shit is going to leave you disappointed.
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>>8594452
Is there any non-genre-fiction that happens to contain werewolves that you'd recommend?
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>>8594460
No. Read something that will actually be worth reading, start with the Greeks for one thing, and I say that unironicly.
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What do you write /lit/?
I want to be inspired.
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Can you ask a better question
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god this board is fucking terrible
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>>8594257
autobiographical musings on the nature of time and human connection and the story of the acceptance of my own frailty and being stuck as the observer of people who truly live their life. And no, I'm not joking, I wish I was.
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Ordinary People Change The World
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>>8594238
please tell me that is a kid's book which explains how she started a war between ape groups with bananas. i need this.
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>>8594252
>please tell me that is a kid's book which explains how she started a war between ape groups with bananas
I thought that was only conjecture and her interactions didn't actually start the war
>still funny as shit though
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>>8594430
they disproved it mostly, because the idea chimps don't wage war is pretty much just humans wanting war planning to be our thing and there's been plenty of other chimp wars since with less intervention, but i want there to be a children's book about it still
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why is this being called the Dane Cook of intellectual reading and grandma tier science?? genuinely confused
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>>8594187
because it's pop science for the "i fucking love science" facebook crowd who actually think they're learning something from heavily reified abstractions that pass off formalism for facts about the world
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>bought Penrose's Road To Reality, time to get smart niggah
>gave up after 50 pages, realised that I'm an intellectual midget, cried myself into sleep
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>>8594228
oh that makes sense thanks, I read it years ago when I was like 14 and it's what got me interested in Physics/Astronomy so I guess I must be a little defensive of it lol
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>That friend who keeps saying they're writing their own memoir.
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>>8594178
>friend
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>>8594183
I will never understand why some people choose to adopt a tripcode on 4chan while simultaneously contributing zero to the quality of the board in their posts
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tfw Knausgaard is your friend
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Opinions on this movie?
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It's great. 10/10 comfy. Goes to great lengths to show how inherently manipulative the task of writing is. Don't know why it had so much father-son stuff going on though. Did Capote have daddy problems?
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>>8594175
Good movie
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>>8594175
PSH's best movie... Spot-on... I miss him :(
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Is it retarded to write a novel on pen and paper?
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>>8594087
extremely
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>>8594087
as long as it is not YA
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>>8594087
no, it´s the only right way to improve your writing.
laptop-fags depend to much on autocorrect.
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Is it fair to say that the greeks created the breakthrough in critical thought, yet completely failed in questions regarding morality and ethics? I'm struggling to think of one greek ethical system that isn't glaringly stupid or warped to fit the naturalistic narrative
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>>8594067
the New Testament
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morality isn't about questions, it's about answers
have fun trying to ascertain the color of gods ass hairs
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>>8594067
No not at all.
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Does /lit/ know of any critiques of contemporary studies in Continental Philosophy? I'm taking a class with a Heidegger scholar right now, and it seems to me that at this point modern "philosophers" are merely interpreting the same thinkers over and over. I understand that one cannot "do" philosophy without grasping the Western tradition and its greatest thinkers, but if this is the only approach, how can we expect anything new to arise? I want to avoid using the word "original," but largely, I get the sense that most of modern philosophy is flat-out derivative, unoriginal. But I'd like to hear your thoughts and your experiences with philosophy in academia.
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Will we ever see another philosopher like him?
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nick land desu
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>Heidegger
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>>8594059
to be fair, what he saw in the Nazi Worker's Party was a chance to oppose Western capitalism and attempt a poetical revolution
still though, he had a strange affinity for Hitler, who knew nothing about philosophy. Heidegger wrote some beautiful things but was a troubled mind
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Is she worth reading?
I'm going to see her give a lecture in a few weeks but I don't know anything about her work yet.
I want to read at least one book before I go there but am clueless.
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Not really
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qt
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>>8593975
white teeth is worth reading. i think she's went downhill since
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Hey Lit. In highschool we would have a reading hour during English class when our teacher was sick or whatever the fuck she was doing. Once I read a book of short stories, and, from what I remember, one story covered a character living in a futuristic settlement for whom accidents and tragedy generally followed. This character was essentially the living embodiment of a jinx and, again if I remember correctly, a lot of the dialogue in the book was regarding the morality of how to deal with such a person - to kick them out, to sure death, or to allow them to stay, to the misery of all the inhabitants, etc.
Anyway, I can't remember who fucking wrote the book and I've been trying to remember for years now. I thought it may have been Asimov, but I've come up stuck. Does this story ring a bell for anyone?
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No clue at all but it sounds really neat so I'll bump for ye.
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>>8593935
no clue have a bump
the ones who walk away from omelas is like the opposite of this though
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>>8595596
>>8595458
Thanks guys. You don't know how much I have searched for this short story, because it was a very interesting read.
If it helps, I also vaguely recall the dialogue exploring a succession of jinxed people throughout history (driving into reality) as a mechanism to explain exactly what was going on with this gentleman in this futuristic moon base society.