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>>8311785
Hachikuji best girl

>>8311791
bird>bat>snail>crab>bee>snek>monkey>cat>spooky shit

>>8311791
>>8311795
Can you please stop this shit? The work of author Haruki Murakumi has absolutely no relation to the Monogatari series of light novels. This is lazy shitposting at it's worst, and is making it nearly impossible to discuss a very popular contemporary author. If you really feel the need to make this comparison, could you at least justify it in some way?

Realize you're reading books you don't like because you want to impress others, and pick up that fantasy book you've been eyeing these past months.

>>8311734
but I was reading them because they sounded interesting and I wanted to read the very possible literature there is to offer.

I'm going to kill myself because if this

>>8311679
All of it; are you fucking retarded?

>>8311679
Those are the barest of the bare essentials, you bumbling moron. But of course you don't want to educate yourself or read the classics for their own sake, you want to say you did.
So just say you did, talk out of your ass about them, and be done with it, like most people do. You have everyone's permission.

Are science and mathematics provincial?

>>8311640
No, it's very simplistic, just as is its philosophy

Considering how much Karl Marx hated Max Stirner you should read The Ego and His own. Its a better ideology but thats besides the point

> manifesto complicated

It's literally marx dumbing his ideas down so that proles can understand it.

This is an idea only lit would get behind

>>8311627
Don't forget race and socio-economic status.

We should be able to filter what appeals to the tastes of women, blacks, young people and the poor.

>>8311634
No need to be that specific. I was already anti discriminatory when I suggested complicated filters when in my educated opinion just filtering out women votes or teen votes would be enough.

>>8311603
Shoo shoo

>>8311609
I'm just goofing, my friend. I don't agree with him. The whole essay reads like a /pol/ post. Full of generalizations. It's actually kind of depressing to think one of the most respected continental philosophers wrote this garbage as well as the brilliant essays he did.

>>8311616
>my prejudices on women make me incapable of reading clearly
tbph anyone who thinks it's unbalanced or hateful is a raging bigot who'll never confront their own prejudices, so it is good for that

>>8311602
Semen retention. He retains the semen of other men, which gives him special powers

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>>8311775
>mfw this is the plot of one of his short stories
That must have been intentional, right?

Also, pic related.

>>8312105
>filename
kek

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>>8311587
>pic
Is that just reworked courage wolf memes?

>>>/tv/
>>>/r/eddit/
off with you

Barry Lyndon

>>8311584

Try Thomas Bernhard.

The Grapes of Wrath
Native Son
Invisible Man
The Fire Next Time

that Black Lives Matter guy with the unpronounceable name who I can't be arsed to lookup something Coates or something like that

blacks in general are angry

>>8311655
this + Léon Bloy's Le déséspéré

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>>8311583
INB4
>implying it was a dystopia
>soma memes
>comparisons with 1984
>Huxley predicted the internet/TV/the contemporary world
>"it's pleb shit, go read some real literature"

ehh, looks like I just killed your thread, kiddo.

>>8311583
That society is shaped by the hand that feeds them (soma).

>>8311581
Didn't you get a summer reading list?

>philosophy undergrad
Don't

Take a year off. Befriend some hookers. Do cocaine. Sell drugs. Smuggle weapons. Kill a man in a knife fight.

The Telemechiad in total
Hades
Circe
Eumaeus

I like the one that switches from person to person quite a bit, don't remember what it was called

Ithaca and then Proteus.

Ithaca is so beautifully sad.

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You desire to LIVE "according to Nature"? Oh, you noble Stoics, what fraud of words! Imagine to yourselves a being like Nature, boundlessly extravagant, boundlessly indifferent, without purpose or consideration, without pity or justice, at once fruitful and barren and uncertain: imagine to yourselves INDIFFERENCE as a power—how COULD you live in accordance with such indifference? To live—is not that just endeavouring to be otherwise than this Nature? Is not living valuing, preferring, being unjust, being limited, endeavouring to be different? And granted that your imperative, "living according to Nature," means actually the same as "living according to life"—how could you do DIFFERENTLY? Why should you make a principle out of what you yourselves are, and must be? In reality, however, it is quite otherwise with you: while you pretend to read with rapture the canon of your law in Nature, you want something quite the contrary, you extraordinary stage-players and self-deluders! In your pride you wish to dictate your morals and ideals to Nature, to Nature herself, and to incorporate them therein; you insist that it shall be Nature "according to the Stoa," and would like everything to be made after your own image, as a vast, eternal glorification and generalism of Stoicism! With all your love for truth, you have forced yourselves so long, so persistently, and with such hypnotic rigidity to see Nature FALSELY, that is to say, Stoically, that you are no longer able to see it otherwise—and to crown all, some unfathomable superciliousness gives you the Bedlamite hope that BECAUSE you are able to tyrannize over yourselves—Stoicism is self-tyranny—Nature will also allow herself to be tyrannized over: is not the Stoic a PART of Nature?... But this is an old and everlasting story: what happened in old times with the Stoics still happens today, as soon as ever a philosophy begins to believe in itself. It always creates the world in its own image; it cannot do otherwise; philosophy is this tyrannical impulse itself, the most spiritual Will to Power, the will to "creation of the world," the will to the causa prima.

Seems the general mantra you're looking for is facilitate your own flourishing to the extent you can and don't waste time thinking/doing things which don't converge on this goal effectively.

Now do the rest of the thinking for yourself on how to do this or remain a fuccboi to the philosophers for the rest of your days

>>8311600
But I just started being a fuccboi to philosophers, I want to be a fuccboi a little longer. I've realised what I want but I'd like to see a historically renowned philosopher's take on something similar which may advise me

Why don't you start us off OP?

I read it in high school and didn't really care about it, although I'm told it benefits from a post-adolescent re-read.

>>8311517
read it in high school on my own, not in a class. one of my favorite books honestly but i wont say that out loud.

>>8311517
Spoiled rich kid bunks off from ritzy private school and runs home to NYC. Hangs out with little sister for a while but mainly spends more in a weekend (on hotels and liquor) than the average worker makes in a month, and then decides that the world is full of phonies and he's the only purity around.