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>>8398518
Kekkek!

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Inherit nobility doesn't exist. Juvenal literally BTFO the concept in his Satires. pic-related. Correct upbringing and sophrosyne are more possible and accessible for the wealthy, though.

>>8398207
>Correct upbringing and sophrosyne are more possible and accessible for the wealthy, though

That's why in a good monarchy society, it would be far more shameful for a noble to be a drunken bastard than a peasant.

When this shaming concept goes out of the window, then we'll get shenanigans like in the pre-French Revolution French nobility.

>>8398164
that is a solid painting, who is it

I think it is not so much inherent as it is the product of a religious feeling and social engineering in an elite class over generations that culminates in the great artistic and political endeavors of periods like Western Baroque or Greek Attic or Baghdad in 800

To take an often used metaphor it is like the flowers on the tree of the civilization. You have a Rembrandt, a Haydn, a Newton, a Louis XIV, because the tree was ready to blossom after a long period of growth. Most of it is not a flower, only a tiny section, and it soon turns to leaves which are inevitably cast off and the tree falls into winter.

>>8398104
If you honestly think that 99% of Asian transfer students aren't simply paying a decent Engliah major to write all their papers for them, then I've got some magic beans to sell you.

>Why is it that at my university, the [race] transfer students are FAR more [compelling but debatable quality] than native English speakers? There are exceptions of course, but generally [race] > everyone else at [activity].

GO FORTH AND TROLL, YE DENIZENS OF CHAOS

>>8398104
Let me ask you this: Have you ever once walked across the quad at UIUC without witnessing a female asian student using her phone to take a picture of a squirrel? Because I have not. You could walk across the quad in the middle of a fucking tornado, and there would be at least one Korean or Chinese girl taking a picture of a squirrel.

Depression isn't a real thing you moron. Get a job and go to the gym. Get a gf. Just b urself

>>8398042
Just kill yourself, no one cares faggot

start with something that you actually enjoy reading.

>>8397968
>more modern
???

And in my experience, there was no lack of green-haired sjws in my math classes

>>8397976

ehh...most of the mathematicians and scientists I know tend to be pretty moderate or at least a little to the left

however, pretty much all the engineers I know are to the right..i wonder if thats because they tend to work in industry more

>>8397984
I'm an engineer and i'm a proud anarchist

1. Take classes.
2. Read German.

Are you stupid or something?

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Go to Germany.

>>8397963
I was actually just at a farm backpacking and a German couple were there. a lot of words are similar to English. doesn't seem that hard.

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>>8397952
really makes you think...

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>>8397952
really makes you think...

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>>8398018
REALLY makes you think

>>8397930
My highschool teacher made us read it. I remember it being trash. Superficial exploration of "identity" with a layer of "multiculturalism" to make it acceptable to brainless liberals. She has nothing new to say whatsoever. Smith's prose is very mediocre, and I hardly remember any memorable passages. The characters are either heavy-handed allegorical devices or very superificial.

>>8397949
>Smith's prose is very mediocre

This. I went in with high expectations and got a writer who hops stylistically (but not in a good way) from paragraph to paragraph. The opening bit was kind of funny but that's about it.

>>8397949

Out of curiosity, as far as the topic of identity goes, especially cultural identity, or a sort of immigrant story, what books do you consider good explorations of that?

Ulysses

The Diary of Anne Frank

>>8397893
Little Women

>>8397879
lapham's quarterly is the only good lit magazine left. harper's has become mfa wankery with a readership cult nearing new yorker levels of parroting obnoxiousness.

>>8397924
this

>>8397879
New Philosopher is amazing

>>8397815
Nicomachean Ethics

the KJV, or Lockes second treatise

>>8397815

Read them in chronological order as you should with any stack.

pretty much

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Kierkegaard is a magnitude better.

>Of all ridiculous things the most ridiculous seems to me, to be busy — to be a man who is brisk about his food and his work. Therefore, whenever I see a fly settling, in the decisive moment, on the nose of such a person of affairs; or if he is spattered with mud from a carriage which drives past him in still greater haste; or the drawbridge opens up before him; or a tile falls down and knocks him dead, then I laugh heartily.

>>8397772

Kierkegaard wasn't German...but anyways

would you say Kirkegaard is the greatest writer of philosophers?

>>8397709
https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/16832596-sbl

lmfao nevermind. i didn't realize you can't invite if you're not a mod. and ours is like...not around apparently.

>>8397724

Group is going well already i see.

>were these writers capturing a society on the brink of collapse?
yes

>and if so, does that make them particularly relevant for contemporary readers?
yes

Russia lacks a moral noon, so to imply it has a moral twilight is to ignore Russia's history. The 19th century for Russia was the closest it came to becoming European: liberalization, egalitarianization, industrialization.

Unfortunately for the average Russian, none of this happened fast enough to appease the far Left. So, what happened in the last century in France repeated itself in Russia 120 years later.

The "Russian writers", however, were not your average Russians but the landed gentry of the era. They would see these up and comers, these industrializers, these liberals, these free-thinking peoples as amoral, wouldn't they? After all, they had everything to lose by their society being upended.

>>8397700

I half-heartedly read a few pages of Trotsky's Russian Revolution History the other day and he said something about Russia not having a merchant class, that the land owning elites simply became the factory owning elites.

Does that sound accurate, and may we still use land-owner vs. industrialist to analyze the late 19th century even if they descended from the same stock?