So /lit/ I don't really read very often besides stuff on the internet but I've been wondering if reading some classic philosophy, like Epictetus' Discourses/Fragments/Enchiridiom or Marcus Aurelius' Meditations, will improve my quality of life. My question is how practical are these books and will I actually come away with useful ideas that I didn't already have? Do you have any book recs, stoic or otherwise? Should I be looking into something else entirely?
Books that are referencing stoics and /k and /out approved " on combat" and "deep survival" philosophy without application is masturbation.
Read them and find out or fuck off.
anyone who is on /lit/ has failed at life objectively. leave.
Hey /lit/, i have seen you guys seem to like Borges, but talking about argentines writers, what are your thoughts on Julio Cortázar work.
>>8323560
he so smart that his brain is pushin his eyes out of his skull. or maybe it's jus water.
>>8323560
>>8323560
I like his short stories but Rayuela is totally overrated.
t. porteña
Is 1984 a meme book?
>>8323548
Yes.
i enjoyed it a lot, dont know about rest of /lit/ though
>>8323548
I dont know what that means.
I didnt like it that much. Its an idea book, and has the shelf life of such.
>mfw speedread fags will never feel the joy of slowly reading a book, absorbing all the information and meaning
i dont get why people want to speed through as many books as they can. like, Do you want to enjoy reading or just say youve read a lot?
>all the deep meaning the genius author decided to include in their book
Does /lit/ agree with pic related?
I haven't read the book but my friend recommended it to me recently. It's pretty popular from what I gather.
>he believes in the myth of linear social progress
Ahahahahahahahahaha
>>8323518
Evola asserts that both forms of progress, both social and technological, are falsities.
>Capital X Xword
Would you read a novel completely written in greentext?
Would you play N64 rail shooters with me and then finger my ass hole?
Will the ink be in green.
The format would be fine; I've certainly already read more tedious formats.
I only post in threads that require no previous knowledge of literature to participate. This way I can feel like I belong on a literature board without ever reading a book.
lit believe in god/the afterlife?
>>8323375
I don't subscribe to the false dichotomies of self/other and life/death.
>>8323393
You're like a negative Don Quixote
Stop being an idiot
That's not to say there is an afterlife, by definition that is impossible. God could be anything though it's too vague an idea
>>8323408
I'm not being an idiot, I'm just prone to unwarranted discrimination. If anything that makes me less of an idiot.
How much of a meme is 'School of Life'? In terms of presenting information in easy-to-digest flashy Youtube videos, do you think that it provides accurate general introductions to the ideas of various philosophers and political theorists? I've watched a few and found them quite interesting, but I'm always wary of colourful, casually-presented "info-tainment" as they tend to omit quite a lot of information as well as present one-sided, reductionist views of highly complex topics (e.g. John Green's Crash Course History).
>>8323352
Let me save you 300 replies and condense it:
>cuck
>SJW
>cultural Marxism
>Jews
>shill
>redpill
It's super garbage. Makes skimming a Wikipedia article look scholarly.
Every idea is thoroughly neutered, misinterpreted and made agreeable to the format.
For the love of God avoid at all costs
>>8323463
what's a better alternative in your opinion?
>tfw cant fucking tear myself away from the internet
>"happenings" and weird shit occurring all day everyday
>the slightest hint of a pattern sets my conspiracy detector off the charts
How do I take the long view? If history repeats itself then why care about the past? Why do we bother having art when the real world is weird enough?
And why bother putting effort in to life when I am a devout Spook fearing Stirnerite? I could sit back and watch stuff happen
>>8323347
Stop browsing /pol/, retard
sam
Oy fucking vey. Shut this down go-i mean guy
He's not particularly well known anywhere in the English-speaking world, is he?
That being said, his Zamonien novels are the most original comfy stuff you can get
>>8323311
He loses a lot in translations, they try real hard but his use of the German language is part of what makes them great.
>>8323363
*what makes his books
Also the English language covers look like fucking garbage compared to the originals
What is Nietzsche's view on revenge and punishment?
"What a fine way of compensating for your suffering it is to go on and *destroy your own judgment*! Your revenge rebounds upon you yourself when you defame something; it is your *own* eye you dim, not that of another: you accustom yourself to *seeing distortedly*!" (Daybreak, 214)
"Reflect! - He who is punished is never he who performed the deed. He is always the scapegoat." (Daybreak, 252)
"Then an adder came along and bit him in the neck, so that Zarathustra cried out in pain. [...] “Not so fast,” spoke Zarathustra. “You have not yet accepted my thanks! You waked me in time, my way is still long.” “Your way is still short,” said the adder sadly: “My poison kills.” Zarathustra smiled. “Since when did a dragon ever die of snake poison?” he said. “But take back your poison! You are not rich enough to give it to me.” Then the snake fell upon his neck once again and licked his wound. [...] “If you should have an enemy, then do not requite him evil with good, for that would shame him. Instead prove that he has does you some good. [...] A small revenge is more humane than no revenge at all. And if the punishment is not also a right and an honor for the transgressor, then I do not like your punishing either.” (Thus spoke Zarathustra, The Adder's Bite)
He of course seems to be against Ahab-like revenge, but I can't quite pinpoint what his advice is and connect it to the rest of his ideas.
>>8323197
Go back to Heraclitus for the answer, because Nietzsche is basically on board with Heraclitus. That is, there is no justice. He goes on further to explain that punishment is just how we get our Schadenfreude fix. I don't think he's fundamentally opposed to some healthy cruelty once in awhile and he doesn't really drop a moral condemnation on it though he opposed it from a consequentialist perspective. He at least wants us to call a spade a spade in the field of justice though.
He also opposes reformative justice, since he argues that reformation is basically punishment and worse yet, it's punishment that if successful removes a man's best traits as his best (ie strongest) traits are usually the ones that see him getting into conflict with social mores.
He dislikes cruelty inflicted by the mob against the individual in particular, I think he would actually be more supportive of Ahabesque heroic revenge than a death penalty handed down by a jury. But of course he sees both as not resulting in justice and expresses some support for what we call today 'restorative justice' which is a more individualist conception of justice which sees offenses as offending against victims rather than against the state or some abstract principle of 'the law'.
I think he'd be more amenable to the ancient Germanic tradition of a blood money payment than to imprisonment or what have you.
>>8323427
Good post
>>8323197
My favourite line, unrelated to Nietzsche, on revenge is this:
"You are punished by anger; not for it."
It calms me to such an unreal degree.
how do i overcome jealousy
tss whats the matta are you green with envy or somethin
>>8323189
chip pls
>>8323142
Examine your expectations and change them if they can't be met
How do I improve my reading speed. I feel slow, yet if I go any faster I forget most of what I've read
>pic unrelated
>>8323005
Continue to read an excess of books that you don't have any difficulty reading. Your mind will become accustomed to the traditions of writing and fill in the blanks.
I actually read at a much slower pace than I am capable of because I find reading very pleasurable and want to extend it and absorb it as much as I am able.
>>8323005
I can read very quickly and retain a lot of what I've read but it's not an enjoyable experience is more of a "rush to finish this shit" thing. If I'm enjoying the book I read every sentence like is the last one.
Don't. Just read it in a speed in which you can retain the infomation.
Has any philosopher written about the myth of monosexuality?
>>8322979
I AM REDPILLED AND WILL NOT STAND FOR THIS DEGENERACY.
You are mentally ill
>>8322979
Foucault, and look where it got him.
>>8323068
Kek
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How one become next Proust or Knausgaard? When they write about their inner day to day life everyone is jerking off. When i write about same, no one cares.
They published it. You posted it on /lit/ or tumblr
>>8322970
Your post reads like that of an idiot, so I don't think the average person would really care.
>>8322971
I think this is basically it. Knausgaard, in particular, is nothing special.