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>>8391407
Some (severely uninformed) people like to think of metaphysics as a bygone relic of supernatural medieval thought, when it is quite clearly the opposite. Developments in science have made astrology and alchemy redundant, but metaphysical questions have not simply disappeared in the same way. I honestly cannot think of one metaphysical problem, traditional or otherwise, that has been solved by advances in physics or some other branch of science. I think it comes from some odd association people make between what was once known as natural philosophy and metaphysics.

>>8391407
see >>8388786

>>8391425
How was Kant uninformed ?

>>8391451
He wasn't uninformed. He didn't demonstrate that "doing" metaphysics is impossible, but established clear boundaries and methods in its practice. The synthetic a priori IS metaphysics.

>>8391354
The Odyssey

>>8391354
Walden

Notes from Underground

>>8391329
>>8338210
Imagine a life where you have never been great at anything, never felt the urge to be great at anything, never felt that magnetic admiration to someone who was great at something, wanted to imitate and ultimately defeat him. Just nothing. Literally all you do in life is exist to post on 4chan. Occupy space. pass the time.

You're bored, as usual, posting about your fucking dislikes and not even feeling any kind of happiness from it, just soothing your constant need to be bitter and cunty and petty toward other people. Every single thing you've done in the past year was mundane, shallow, boring. You spent the last six hours reading kinda-interesting plebbit stories about people who made interesting buildings for their populace or some stupid bullshit that you think is interesting and you may say is interesting but you're not really sure if it's really interesting. You're just fucking sitting there, gestating, fermenting, with a moist hole between your ears that guarantees you'll at some point have to get up and move around and perform physical labor to support yourself.

And then you see women, over in some corner, having fun. You've never seen this before. What are they even doing? Instead of their consciousnesses merely sitting in their thick skull and revolving around itself, they are imbuing their conscious energy and intentionality into external objects, crafts, goals, projects. All the bitterness and cuntiness you feel nonstop seems to be absent from them, as they congratulate each other for being victorious, and happily learn from someone who defeated them.These creatures are truly content to be alive. They have found purpose in a purposeless universe.

And your gaze turns back on itself, on your self, and you realise you've never had that.You can never have it. So you sit down, you post on 4chan, and you fucking ruin your life, the whole fucking thing. The five seconds of attention you get will be worth destroying it.Because you're failure OP.

>>8391432
ROASTED
TOASTED
GHOSTED

RIPPED
SKIPPED
FLIPPED

BLOWN OUT
NO DOUBT
GET OUT

>>8391432
MRA NECKBEARDS BTFOOOOOOO

You must watch the miniseries with Richard Chamberlain. It's wonderful.

>>8391347

is that the tai-pan miniseries?

Only thing is the dirk struan was such a powerful character in the books i couldn't see them doing him justice on film. How do you think they did?

I read that the film adaption of shogun was pretty poorly received. I would honestly love a remake, but perhaps a miniseries is a better format for these kinds of books.

If you liked Shogun, then you might like Musashi by Eiji Yoshikawa, though it's not from the perspective of a foreigner.

>>8391315
>My Struggle.
Wasn't that Hitler's?

>>8391315

There is another anon holing himself up to write a book in a shed or something. I think he is also Norwegian, so maybe you can both rub cocks with eachother and compare notes.

>>8391315
you sound too proud to be a good writer - whats your shit about

>>8391310
On a related note, are 4chan and darknet mainstream now, as Ellis postulates?

>>8391317
4chan is mainstream. I doubt the average person knows what darknet is. Warren Ellis is always a fun read. Most of the stuff in this book is based off the subcultures Wired magazine asked him to write about.

>>8391330
What article? Send link please senpai

>>8391283
Love it. My backlog has become so bloated that I would need to devote a lifetime to reading all the books I've discovered

>>8391283
>does anyone else like discovering new literature?
No, we all hate it.

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Started with the Sudacas 5 years ago, mostly due to Borges. I'm still at it.

fuck off

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>>8391271

>>8391271
What was his endgame?

>>8391261
inherent vice

>>8391261
the book, 'Drive'

Kem Nunn

givin this thread a B U M P. I read the CPR until I got to the part that is like 2 different editions on top of eachother so you have to read each one twice and was like fuck this.

kant bump

>>8391252
Just finished reading the first critique, plan on moving to the second.

The biggest thing really is to know the context, and the aims for which it is being written. So a quick reading of Hume and Descartes, reasonable knowledge of Leibniz, and so on. Honestly once you know Kant's scope of the project I feel there isn't much need of commentaries. People say the writing is terrible but the Transcendental Aesthetic is pretty straightforward, and once you get going into the Transcendental Analytic then you start to get a feel for the writing.

I used the meiklejohn translation if anyone is wondering. I don't have any personal experience with other translations, but I have heard good things about the Smith version.

Also quick side note: probably the most difficult part of the critique for me was Kant's terminology that he used. It seemed that he either skipped defining some of his vocabulary, or in many cases when he does define certain words the definition he gives is just as obscure as the context he uses them in. So I'd recommend just finding a pdf of the "Kant Dictionary" by Howard Caygill on google. He explains the definitions of Kant's terminology, and some of the significance and explanations of certain sections of his work. That's about the only companion I used

>>8391114
> fucking garbage
Are you the one who didn't like Dorian Gray? Is fucking garbage a new /lit/ meme?

>>8391142
no i've never read dorian grey

>>8391114
Why do you think it's garbage, anon?

>>8391076
Ours is not to reason why.

>>8391076
i like to be in bed by 8am
t. gmt

>>8391076
/r9k/ and /pol/ must be similar as well

just a really ugly guy. probably the reason why he hides his face.

>>8391074
Dental plan, lisa.

>>8391074
Anxiety (on multiple levels) and too much weed as a coping mechanism. Wallace did the same but with television as well. Joyce the same but with booze.

>captcha: select all the images with grass :)

>>8391066
Eh, I've tried, but I've never really got into it. I don't get how anyone has the time to seriously document their everyday lives in any proper systematic way.

It's always something I've aspired to do, because it's undeniably useful for sorting through shit, but it just takes so long if you take it seriously and do more than just write down what happened to you (actual analysis etc.)

I only write an entry after some important event, and that's about all I can imagine doing practically.

>>8391066
I recommend keeping a dream journal. It's annoying to stick to it for a long time, though.

>>8391066

I keep a mirror book. It's helped me a lot I think, to sort through my inner life.

>>8390997

Thanks for posting it assface.

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>>8390997
Do you think he laughed the entire time he shot this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9lCkFygaaQ

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go to bed cliff