Are their any philosophers that BTFO the illusion of love? Ive never heard of a philosopher critique it other than minor parts of shopenhauers "on love" essay.
>>7870864
You can't 'BTFO' an illusion. The strongest blows land against thin air and are wasted- how can you destroy that which does not exist?
define 'illusion of love'
>>7870894
Fuck that, define 'love,' for starters. Is it the love of a boy for a girl, or the love of Christ on the cross, or something else?
Looking for examples of other literary figures, Japanese or not, who embodied masculine ideals and themes of masculinity, masochism, and the human body into their work, as well as being public intellectuals. Stuff like Soseki, Junichiro, etc.
The fuck is junichiro?
Gtfo
>>7870507
>>7870488
>Soseki
>Masculine
All that really comes to mind for me is Hemingway.
Write something in the style of an author
Guess who others are emulating
it cant be described hehe
I like it in the derrière.
(Hint: it starts with O and ends with P)
>>7866508
HP lovecraft ofc
I'll start with Thomas Bernhard.
I rarely see mention of Shakespeare. Maybe because he tra
>>7863617
David Foster Wallace and Thomas Pynchon
Questions that don't deserve their own thread, stupid questions etc.
War, what is it good for?
>>7861141
war is the place where the noblest virtues of man are tested; duty, loyalty, self-sacrifice, bravery, mercy.
>>7861165
Interesting take on things. WWII definitely produced a lot of important thinkers.
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I'm starting to think it is 2deep4me, because I just can't see the reason for all the hype.
People just project their own kafkaesque experiences onto the book
See
>>7868596
>>7875827
This is a very kafkaesque post
Is it worth the price /lit/?
I like mine a lot, but mostly because it saves me a shitload of money. I DL all my fiction books from IRC or torrents and it's pretty great. Non-fiction I still prefer paper though.
Just go to a library.
as an amazon shareholder i think it's wonderful that they are advertising on 4chan, but i'd rather they hype those new "dash" buttons than the kindle, and personally i just read on the iphone which is quite comfy in ibooks, also they need to put more marketing muscle behind the echo, we all know what a kindle does, what ppl don't know is what the fuck use the god damn echo is
>whole family commits suicide
>fights on the front lines in the most brutal war in the history of the world
>beats Bertrand Russel in a battle of wits
>ends his whole career
>writes the most influential piece of analytic philosophy to date using a series of enigmatic aphorisms which vaguely connect to each other
>Hits stupid kids who can't math
Someone explain to me why he isn't GOAT
>>7874129
>Someone explain to me why he isn't GOAT
He was a faggot.
>>7874129
Because he realized he was wrong and then struggled for the rest of his life trying to understand his mistakes
>>7874129
Hurting children is wrong. If you support Wittgenstein, you support child abuse. If you support child abuse, you're violent and immoral. If you're violent and immoral, you have no business being a philosopher, whose jon is to educate and learn, not support the battery of the weak by mentally unstable homosexuals.
Wittgenstein was wrong then and he's wrong now. But to refuse to discuss this failure would be to ignore his crimes against the young. Please when reading his work, remember that it was composed by a suspected pedophile who was quite evil even though he never said what exactly he was doing in Germany in 1953
You're at the library reading a book and this guy slaps it out of your hands. What do you do?
Tighten the noose.
>>7874120
I calmly put the library back in my hands.
>>7874120
Look calmly in his face. I'm taller than him. I rip that stupid bandana off his forehead and shove it in his prissy little mouth.
"You thought you were Hal Incadenza" I told him, gently reaching into my pocket for my Swiss Army Pocketknife, "But you were really just that gay guy who robbed people and dressed up. Or actually you were that gross dad he masturbated in his kids' clothes or something weird, I don't know, it was a long book, unncessarily long."
Dave looked at me
"Come at it faggot, then," he said, "Ligotti's for losers. Real unpretentious commercial fiction is Stephen King."
"YAAAAAAAH I yelled at a shoved a copy of Don DeLillo's White Nose up his right nostril," YOu little bitch," I said "Nobodys gonna be making any footnotes now!"
"They're endnotes you ignoroamous!" he told me
"[Sic]" I said, then punched in right in the back of his smug head so hard his stupid glasses when flying ten feet into the air before disappearing into the sky forever
Is nihilism the end of all wisdom?
It's the middle.
Is that all you're going to write?
>>7873772
Is that all you're going to write?
Is this very literary of him?
>>7873723
For some reason, I actually enjoyed this post, just as one can enjoy MTW - to imagine that it was written purposefully to show a sick or broken mind.
I don't know, it just feels like a tale of despair and misery. You lose your manhood, your decisions are totally arbitrary, and there's this lighthearted merryness about this: like a tale you tell at a party, not realising how feeble and disgusting and small and pitiful you appear.
>>7873746
I feel nothing but a sense of dread, as if the future which he represents is encircling society like a black fog
This is very retarded of him
Is philosophy an intellectual form of self help-- of coming to terms with death?
Is philosophy?
Maybe some existential stuff or really old premodern "philosophy". Philosophy today is in the analytic tradition which focuses on argument structure, language, and applying logic to a variety of subjects outside of logic.
>>7873667
It can be I guess
philosophy is pretty much just the exploration of ideas. A lot of philosophy is pretty antithetical to happiness, or at least is "neutral" to it. A lot of philosophers aren't interested in being happy but instead deserving of happiness.
It's a complex field, pal. Lots of interpretations. Lots of butt spanks. Lots of ball twists. Lots of hugs, some kissing, maybe you get figged a little.
>person pronounces it show-pen-hauer
What else makes you immediately know your professor/classmates are inferior idiots?
>people who pronounce it 'lee-oh' tolstoy
>>7873576
tremendous thread op
very temendous
>>7873576
It actually is pronounced with a long open O. It'd be written Schoppenhauer if it was pronounced like you think it is. Also instead of being a smartass online go study.
What do you think is the best or most interesting book of the bible? Not in terms of religious significance.
>>7873021
For me it's Ecclesiastes. Pretty thoughtful wisdom literature. You can also read it in a sitting. Then John's gospel for his writing style
whats the definitive edition to read of the bible?
>>7873050
The one in the drawer of your preferred motel