Anyone else get tired of analyzing Plato just to find ways to disagree with him? It just feels like such a pointless gesture in philosophy that keeps being repeated instead of adding something new. No modern criticism of his work has the beauty and imagery that the original has making it all seem a waste. Only Nietzsche seemed to combine critique with art
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>>7692283
plato was a meme author, and had no discernible talent. he was shitposting, and is literally genre tier fiction. clearly a juvenile author.
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>>7692393
Post your most profound work right now then, or post anything you have actually written
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>>7692393
Yea, I like how two and a half thousand years of philosophy pretty much come from your shitposting. After all, all philosophy is a footnote to you.
what book had the most impact on our current condition?
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I'm just gonna get Joe Namath here's biography out of the way first.
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/lit/ WHAT IS SO FUCKING IMPORTANT ON THE FRONT PAGE THAT YOU CAN'T PAY MY THREAD A VISIT AND DROP ME A LITTLE LOVE NOTE
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>>7692357
<3
books that had the most impact on our current condition:
The Bible
The Koran
The Wealth of Nations
The Communist Manifesto
books that impacted our current literary world:
Don Quixiote
Moby Dick
Ulysses
literally all of the canon
Just got this. A collection of most of Sontag's stuff from the 60s and 70s. What are her good essays and what do you think of Sontag in general?
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>>7692257
Notes on Camp is canon and her essay on Syberberg's Hitler: A Film From Germany is brilliant film criticism/theory
Illness As Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors are exceptional books (and personal for her, since she had to deal with breast cancer)
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>>7692257
Against Interpretation is probably her most important work there.
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/lit/ Which one are you? Plotter or Pantser?
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How do you write your books?
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the guy who pulls the lever, gassing both
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>>7692225
Yes.
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A mix of both
i have a loose outline but switch and mix as needed
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Any robots undergone/studied psychoanalysis?
How long have you been doing it? Made any recent insights or musings you'd like to share (about yourself or others)?
What have you been reading? Do you have anything to recommend outside the usual reading material that people interested in the subject might find intriguing?
Have you read/are you familiar with Freud's work on dream analysis, and would you like to share some of your interpretations?
Personally I've undergone about 2 years of analysis and have been studying it on my own for about a year now. I'm currently wrapping up The Interpretation of Dreams, and I'm looking to pick up some of Freud's case studies which I think I saw at a local second hand bookstore.
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>>7692219
Hi, there is another thread about analysis if that interests you.
I'm in analysis since a few months. No particular insight or interpretation to tell "out of the blue" right now, maybe later?
I didn't read a lot, mainly The Interpretation of Dreams, Psychopathology of Everyday Life, Civilization and Its Discontents.
How's your analysis going? How many sessions do you have per week?
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Currently reading Jung's Man and His Symbols and it is absolutely amazing. I don't have a lot of experience with psychoanalysis except for having read some basic writings of Freud, but I find Jung's approach to dream analysis much more compelling and interesting than Freud's approach.
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I'm not a robot
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Have any opinions in this matter
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enjoy your demons
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Check out Rudolph Steiner instead
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>>7692256
Knowledge of the higher worlds?
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ITT: Write something, any legnth, in the style of your favorite author
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>>7692161
-I suck dick dick, said OP
-Faggot. Says anon.
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>>7692169
>dick dick
Damn it i'm autistic.
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>>7692178
It's almost poetic.
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Hey guys. I really wanto to read but just cant fucking do it, ehhebe. How can i do it giys?
Helo
Help me I'm dumb as a rock sack, fuck.
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read this post. there you go OP you did it
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What are good novels with this premise? Don't care what time period. Just looking for some good shit that takes place at some point in human history but has fictional characters. Something that shows what that period was like and something I can learn from while being entertained. Here are some examples:
Shogun
King Rat
River God
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A tale of two cities
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Yoshikawa Eiji wrote some great historical fiction (that's the name of the genre I believe you're after)
Try "Musashi" if you want to read about a single guy's exploits, or "Taiko" if you want a more grander, political scale. Both are amazing.
For more Roman times, try "I, Claudius" or "Memoirs of Hadrian"
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>>7692101
/lit/ do you know of a book that might help me with crippling addiction issues?
Love,
Anon
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>>7692060
it works if you work it
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>>7692060
The Discourses of Epictetus.
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>>7692060
Nietzsche, you need disdain for plebs and pleb habits.
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Has anyone read this? I was up until 5am this morning finishing it. I'd been meaning to read it since the author hails from my country and won the Booker prize back in 2014.
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I have back then -
It didn't impress me that much, left me cold. I've actually forgotten a large majority of it. Didn't give two shits about anyone, and the Japanese were caricatures.
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>>7692027
Bashou did it better desu
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Reminder that THE DEAD ZONE is meta-fiction and is about Trump.
Stillson= Trump
Johnny= King
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>>7691810
As bad as Trump is, he's much better than Cruz.
Cruz would be, I don't know, the novelization of King Kong or something.
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>>7691810
I thought Jimmy Carter was mentioned in this, or did I just imagine that?
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>>7692125
Fuck I think I remember that. He shakes Carter's hand and has a vision of him becoming President or something.
I haven't read very much in the way of philosophy. I've been reading Zarathustra lately.
This is really beautifully written. Really enjoying it. The ideas are fascinating- it resolved for me a sort of existential crisis.
What are some other philosophical books I might like? I've heard Nietzsche is similar to a lot of eastern philosophy- something like that? Or I've also been interested in Plato
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>>7691796
Gurdjieff.
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>>7691796
What existential crisis did it solve for you?
I would generally advise to start with the Greeks. Plato really is an essential starting point.
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>>7691796
Start with the Greeks.
Let's make a /lit/ playlist.
Starting with an obvious one
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lezoqO0d4g4
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>>7691720
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BW3gKKiTvjs
Necessary
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good dreams, /lit/. :)
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What are some books that will teach me how to love? What are some books that have a major focus on empathy?
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>>7691703
read nietzsche, then the bible
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>>7691703
love is something experience not read about.
tl;dr; go to your local catholic church, confess your sins from the heart, the worse things about yourself. partake in the eucharist. you're on your way to agape. a love for a women will happen somewhere along the way.
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>>7691703
The Puppet and the Dwarf: The Perverse Core of Christianity by Zizek