Are there any good philosophers/books which deal deeply with the importance and effects of self-acceptance and love which are not Eastern?
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>>8000122
That movie is so shit
>>8000284
I know
About to start this. What should I expect?
Boredom
You're reading something literally available from the infowars shop, put that into perspective
http://store.infowars.com/search.asp?keyword=tragedy+and+hope&search=Search+Products
>>8000083
So?
Is it worth reading or nah? I picked up the first book in a thrift store earlier today.
containment thread: >>7996125
Has anyone here read the Mahabharata? What did you think?
I'm considering reading it but I have no idea which version to get at the moment since they are all condensed. Would I need to read anything before it to understand it better? Like Edith Hamiltons Mythology before the Illiad.
>abridged version
>translation
Wew
>>7999965
I know but I don't have much choice.
Are there standards of professionability for multiple exclamation and interrogation marks? I expect many people will see no problem with '?!', but what about '?!?!?!' or even "!!!!' and '???'
These days everyone uses the interrobang (‽) for their combined exclamatory and inquisitive punctuational needs. Get with the times.
>>7999909
Why are you using exclamation points in a professional context anyway?
>>7999909
Literally the only person to whom my communications ever include an exclamation point is my wife. That's a pretty good rule.
What are some good books on toxic masculinity?
Read My Twisted World.
Laugh at how /r9k/ and related sites fuck up young men's lives.
Try not to be one of them.
not a book but Neon Genesis Evangelion is one of the greatest
>>7999390
>toxic masculinity
nice spook
Post every interesting book dealing with (Neo-)Luddism, either from a historical perspective of actively advocating it, you know of. Preferably non-fiction, but fiction is ok, too,
as long as it's still informative
Pic related, he wrote an essay on the topic which I've yet to read
>>7999090
maybe quit being a dipshit and read the article first, it's short (also, read his article from NYT abt the Watts Riot).
>>7999090
Haha, hey there little guy! :-)
Unabomber manifesto
What's some philosophical readings for me if I find my philosophy is something towards an optimistic smiling nihilism?
i.e. we all die and nothing matters, so might as well be a good person and enjoy life
>>7998799
just watch some female youtubers
>>7998959
one must imagine Sisyphus masturbating even though he pushin a boulder with his other hand
Question for everyone but particularly for Classicists: How good are the translations? I noticed some discrepencies when I read the same work from Penguin series. It seems Loeb is more literal and better? What publisher would you recommend for people who want to read classical works but don't know latin-greek?
>>7997255
>translation
>>7997258
Dude, Loeb pairs the original text along with the translation.
>>7997258
I read from the right side. I don't know latin-greek, being the pleb I am
You are now the leader of the world and all the copies of the books of your choosing get thrown into fires across the world. Which books do you choose to burn and what reason will you give the people for their removal?
>>7996795
All of them
>implying anyone gives a shit about non digital copies
everything by: Dostoevsky, Camus, the wiener kreis, stirner, Nietzsche, theodore beale, ayn rand, mises, hayek, Cathy Brennan, Thomas Aquinas, Hegel, Sam Harris
>>7999999
>read war and peace and love it
>hear tolstoy went nutso in his late years and disavowed his old work
>figure that late tolstoy is probably not worth reading
>on a whim read Confession
>mfw it's perfectly reasonable
>mfw it expresses things i've felt myself
>mfw it's perfectly congruous with Tolstoy's earlier works
>mfw an additional 30 years of his writing that i had discounted just opened itself to me
Times you've totally misjudged an author?
>>7999600
Did you read "What is Art?" I think that's where he begins to let theory and ideology take a too prominent position, using it in order to slander virtually everyone. As an artist, you can impose whatever limitations you like on yourself; and if you're a great artist, as Tolstoy was, you can create great works in spite of (because of?) the framework you've decided to work in. But applying this standard to others is more questionable. There is an undeniable oppressiveness about basing judgement of others on an ideology you have yourself prefabricated; and this is the unpleasant dimension of late Tolstoy, in which he judges the art of others not on their own merits, but by their coherence with a certain pre-existing ideology. Universalising this ideology and applying it dogmatically, as Tolstoy does, is in a sense analogous of another Russian sentiment towards art which would come later, namely socialist realism, in which art or beauty is in a very similar way subordinate to a predetermined theory or ideology. This overbearing didacticism is, I think, a big part of the reason people find late Tolstoy objectionable.
Tolstoy did nothig wrong
I went into nietzsche, camus, dostoevsky and proust expecting them to be good.
Got that badly wrong
DAVID
nice thread keep it up :)
>>7999408
Link video please?
i started so many /lit/ memes they might as well just rename the board /jacob/
The concepts portrayed in the communist Manifesto seem be good but sadly not practical. The change we would have to under go as a whole inside this corrupt organism might be too much to happened quickly and the concept is unable to undergone too quickly either.
Is it possible? Why hasn't it be done recently?
>>7996731
To you think the transition from current capitalism to socialism would be more dramatic than the change from turn-of-the-century Russian monarchy to socialsm? If so, why?
>>7996731
Socialism is used as a transition phase.
>communism sounds nice but doesn't work !
Why do people parrot this shit endlessly ? It doesn't even sound good. I believe people who spout this garbage have never read anything about communism.
>look at name
Oh. Sage.
What's the word for the group of people who start cultural movement?
Not founders, since they aren't exactly doing anything
Not predecessors, since those are the people that come before.
Goes in this sentence:
>Modernism is described pretty nebulously normally, but it is most simply understood by looking at it’s [first generation of people that did it].
>>7999765
architects
originators
>>7999795
>originators
that's it, thanks
Poomen