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Never read one before.
I'm planning to read a price of salt and some others since I like romantic films.
Any recommendations?

>>9920958
they are good when you run out of fire wood

>>9920958
Great, if you can get past the anvil-heavy allegories.

>>9920936
>Heimat-Roman
>were
>implying

>>9920936
I read this in one book about the nazis I have here. I always wondered how those books were.
From the little I could have the will to search, they seen to be that cheap literature that people sometimes consume. Stuff full of cliche and so on.

Roth.. easy on the dildos..

youre just gonna get distracted and put the book down 10 pages in
lmao what a pseud fag

>>9920909
Harry Potter?

>>9920911
you bitch, don't insult AtLA like that

>>9920914
harry potter 2

>>9920881
peturdson lol

*shitposts*

*Announces God is resurrected*

It's pretty comfy here op. I recommend

>>9924763
None really. It's a successful work in bringing Aristote back exactly because it explains him to those who otherwise would not get him.

>>9924973
it also explains why po-mo ethics are "wishy-washy" or context dependent without using their frenchy neologisms as well. its a great foundational book on ethics in general.

>>9924981
He does that in more detail with Three Rival Versions of Moral Inquiry.

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I've been reading about the history of religion in china since I only have the vague remnants of generations of our tradition being passed down to work with.
My grandmother's upset though since only the son of her son will be able to worship my grandfathers generations and ancestors therefore we may have to pay priests who are somehow qualified to worship them to have our ancestral shrine installed at the temple and worshipped daily since his father refused to carry on the tradition.
Any non whites, e.g people with traditional religion know this feel?
>mfw hearing the priest chant the names of my family and ancestors and thinking about how my ancestors and my blood have been doing it for 2000+ years

>>9920756
stupid pagan
enjoy burning in hell

>>9920739
>fight degeneracy
>implying freedom is degeneracy

Tradions are just the pop culture of the old. The newer stuff usualy is way better.

Can someone give me a quick rundown on idealism?

>>9920680
I'm not asking for a quick rundown. I would however like a decent overview before I begin reading into it myself.

Which writers to read and in which order, etc.

>>9920680
Matter ain't real, mind is the deal

″Our political system is placed in a just correspondence and symmetry with the order of the world, and with the mode of existence decreed to a permanent body composed of transitory parts; wherein, by the disposition of a stupendous wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious incorporation of the human race, the whole, at one time, is never old, or middle-aged, or young, but in a condition of unchangeable constancy, moves on through the varied tenour of perpetual decay, fall, renovation, and progression. Thus, by preserving the method of nature in the conduct of the state, in what we improve we are never wholly new; in what we retain we are never wholly obsolete.″

“Society is indeed a contract. Subordinate contracts for objects of mere occasional interest may be dissolved at pleasure – but the state ought not to be considered as nothing better than a partnership agreement in a trade of pepper and coffee, calico or tobacco, or some other such low concern, to be taken up for a little temporary interest, and to be dissolved by the fancy of the parties. It is to be looked on with other reverence; because it is not a partnership in things subservient only to the gross animal existence of a temporary and perishable nature. It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.”

>>9920652
No. This is De Maiste territory.

>>9920650
B-but who was Judas to Marx's Jesus?

>>9921312
Lenin

>>9921313

B-but who was Pontius Pilate to Lenin's Juda

>>9920605
Start by reading this thread. Then read a book that teaches you how to read the sort of books you want to read. Then read them.

Read notes from the underground.

Star with the greeks

>>9920603
Agreed. Even years ago when I was not the /lit/izen I was today I read this book and was instantly floored by the very structure of the sentences, nevermind the word choice and subtexts. From this alone I can still practically hear Ishmael's voice

>>9920603
Rightly called the greatest American novel.

I would go so far as to say it is the greatest piece of literature after The Holy Bible, Dante's Commedia and Dostoevsky's Brother's Karamazov. I've read it twice a year for the past 6 years and it gets better every time.

sehr gut

>>9920644
Which translation though?

>>9920651
Burton for romanticism, Haddawy for objectivity. Why many people wouldn't prefer the more accurate translation of Haddawy is that you're essentially taking away what made them worth reading in the first place. Personally I chose the compiled Everyman's Library edition that have specific translations selected by an editor for each story though I know that can be a bit jarring for some people