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in all honestly nothing
go live in a commune or something because the left killed itself

>>>/his/

>>7913147
nice try, bucko

>>>Phil. 101

Kant already answered this question 200 years ago...

>>7912386
>if all the evidence is saying we dont have free will?

Confirmed for having no knowledge on the current state of philosophy.

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That's a weird cover, OP.

As for me, enjoying this as much as his others works, it's fantastic.

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I'm really enjoying it so far.

tvätta händerna, boken blir smutsig(are)

>>7908797
...giving you the exact right answer

me sometimes, especially cuz im lazier than ever

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>>7908208
1. http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/regulars/ray-monk-wittgenstein

2. Ray Monk's The Duty of Genius
3. Ray Monk's How to Read Wittgenstein
4. Blue and Brown Books
5. Philosophical Investigations

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He's writing at a time where formal logic is developed (the mathematical logicism project in Emgland/Austria in particular) and everything was ideosynchratic.
Working through a 200 page book about formal logic sure would be helpful.

desu I don't get how anybody who didn'y do mathematical logic or analytic philosophy can take anythung away from it (except then reading the last page and smaking sense of it for oneself and agreeig with it)

I'm speaking about the Tractatus here btw., the secind book is less formal but harder to get

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What should I read before Heidegger to know what the fuck he's talking about?

>>7906718
Feels like a children's book or Coelho tier literature, should i drop it then?

>>7906693
My English teacher made our class read it over the weekend in our sophomore year of high school. Some of us complained about having to read a "whole" book in such a short time, but it really is the sort of thing you can read in a day or two and not really miss or overlook anything in.

Memeingway's a middling author at best.

>>7906722
You are an idiot, and should drop reading altogether.

>>7906379
im curious about this too. I cant justify spending all that money for little return

i listen to lectures on youtube during my commute. i've learned a lot about lit. theory

>>7906644
Got a B.A in English last year, can't say it was much wasted money since I live in a country which has basically free Uni. Also I live in a non-English speaking country where it makes sense to learn practical skills in the future world language.

Any writer who uses a semicolon deserves to be hanged

>>7903739
LOL, I like the line and was going "Godamn so many years hating John Green with a passion and the dude can actually write some.", then, thanks to you my friend, I notice the semicolon. I can sleep easy again.

>>7903739
What's wrong with the semicolon?

>>7914799

Post a pic of both of you and I'll tell you. No bullshit. Total honesty.

>>7914799
Classist shit like in the books isn't really a thing anymore. Unless she comes from old money, your social standing shouldn't be a problem as long as you're polite.

>>7914807
Why would I post a picture?

>>7914808
I assume she does come old money, although I'm not aspergic enough to "research" her family tree or anything. Also I'm not very polite, partly due to my being the only working class individual in the location wherein she and I both frequent and my subsequent disinclination to "play the fool" or "play the pauper" in the sense of my background being the basis of my character or something like that, and also due to my not really relating to many features of these peoples' lives and therefore not wanting to come across as unlearned, naive or plain stupid or something. This in addition to stuff like self-doubt and the usual stuff that comes with being very attracted to someone who has the potential to reject you and so on. Rationally thinking it would be like any other rejection but from her (and in the context) it would really be like a kick in the nuts.

One to start:

I know that my own father once found his daughter, coke-addled and twisted in the driver’s seat of the car he’d bought her for her sixteenth birthday, blood crusted below her nostril with the body of someone else’s little girl crushed by her tires and strewn along the freeway, and while the policemen took her away, all he said was that he could never stop feeling proud of her, but he had stopped feeling proud of himself for being her father.

The day I found Abilene lying in that heap, the needles in her arm, semen in her hair, she said to me, daddy, I’m sorry, dad, please help me, daddy, please take me home. And while we drove in silence I thought about how I was supposed to feel. About how fathers were supposed to feel. About how my father had felt. But I didn’t feel it. And I was ashamed of myself for being ashamed of her.

BUYING DEAD BABY, USED BABY SHOES

Ever worn baby shoes?

>>7911999
He has a great sense of humor, is adept at evoking a mood of genuine paranoia, and occasionally writes beautiful passages.

>>7911999
I like him because I feel like I learn more from his books than I do from anything else. He always seems to elude understanding, and the experience of reading his books if often frustrating and dull, but nonetheless, I managed to read them all, so he must have been doing something right. There are passages of extraordinary beauty in his stuff (particularly Against the Day, if that's what you're after) and a level of depth that you won't find anywhere else, tempered with jokes and silly allusions, so it doesn't get to stuffy and serious. He's talking about the big things that matter in our lives, from war to technology to family, in a way that is completely reckless and fearless, and admittedly in a way that doesn't always land, but that's what makes him great.

>>7912010

>I like him because I feel like I learn more from his books than I do from anything else. He always seems to elude understanding, and the experience of reading his books if often frustrating and dull, but nonetheless, I managed to read them all, so he must have been doing something right. There are passages of extraordinary beauty in his stuff (particularly Against the Day, if that's what you're after) and a level of depth that you won't find anywhere else, tempered with jokes and silly allusions, so it doesn't get to stuffy and serious. He's talking about the big things that matter in our lives, from war to technology to family, in a way that is completely reckless and fearless, and admittedly in a way that doesn't always land, but that's what makes him great.

I was reading someone who said he was the first writer of "hypertext fiction" that didn't have hypertexts. Would you agree?

They meant it like this: "Hypertext fiction is a genre of electronic literature, characterized by the use of hypertext links which provide a new context for non-linearity in literature and reader interaction."

>>7912006

>occasionally writes beautiful passages

Do you find they're few and far between? I'm relatively familiar with Cormac McCarthy, as an example who I like, but I feel sometimes that he's trying to be almost too beautiful with every sentence he writes (if that makes sense).

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literally who?

>>7911162
>philosophers that are right
>posts a picture of a complete and utter hack

kek

>>7911169
You're the only hack around here, kid

this image i just realised may make it seem like i'm being ironic but i'm not

>Why exactly, according to Nietzsche is comfort so bad?

Which passage are you referring to?

Because it turns you into a fat retard, as this thread exemplifies.

Her asshole glistened in the moonlight.

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>>7907388
When we found our Chinaman dead in that desert, nobody had much to say about it.

Don't call me Ishmael.

I'm doing Moby Dick with the intention of saying the opposite of everything in it in the hope that there is some wisdom to unlock in it

A novel without characters, something along the lines of Koyaanisqatsi.

>>7910297

I like it
But how

i toyed with the idea of writing a fictionalized biography of zyzz but i don't really want to write a whole book about a meme

i might still make a short story out of it