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My ethics professor argues that utilitarianism and pic related is the foundation for all forms of morality
How do I refute this?
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>>7370813
"The world didn't start in 1863".
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Point out God is in fact the foundation for all forms of morality
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thats like asserting consequentialism is the foundation to deontological ethics.
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Does anyone here actually read? Do you even praise Witold?
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>>7370799
Who?
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>>7370799
I don't care for Witold.
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Unlikely that most of the /lit/ population has ever read Grombrowicz, stubbornly sticking as they are to genre fiction and the so called classics. While he doesn't move me or strike me as particularly ingenious, while there are other narrators whom I hold higher in the scape of surrealist satire, I can still dig his style and his latent, zealous philosophy. I would recommend his later works (Transatlantic or Cosmos) over Ferdydurke, by the way.
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You could be reading right now
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>>7370788
It's just letters on the screen.
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I'm just taking a break while doing laundry and cooking dinner. I have about 350 pages left in the book I'm reading and will probably finish it tonight.
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>tfw instead of reading a comfy book about the Franco-Dutch War I am writing a pretentious personal statement for graduate applications about how great I am
>tfw I need to take breaks every 3 sentences to pace around my kitchen and dry heave from how much I hate myself
>tfw I just wanted to read a fucking book
>tfw I hate university
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Short story or poems about her turning into a blueberry?
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the pisan cantos
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>>7370780
Higher brow, please.
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>turning into a blueberry
ah, that brings me back
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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/21/opinion/how-frances-leaders-failed-its-people.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-left-region®ion=opinion-c-col-left-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region
is he right, /lit/?
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>english translation
right to the bin
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other than that though it was fairly scathing
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>"LOL"
You're right again, Michel. A lot of the commenters don't seem to know who he is
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Just got back from first date in 4 years. She was cute and comfy to talk to but all I could think about was getting back home to keep reading Siddhartha.
(Why) Are girls better than books?
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>>7370488
Prose before hoes.
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>prose
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>get a hooker
>continue reading
/lit/, I need your vast knowledge. Tonight I was debating about political correctness, critical theory, political correctness, Frankfurt school, and how it affects Western civilization. I need deeper information about it.
Do you know some good books on the topic?
I am tempted on buying The Devil's Pleasure Palace, from Michael Walsh, buy I would await for your suggestions.
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>>7370453
thx for the suggestion. I will bump this one tho
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last desperated bump
Let's be honest here: You guys have obviously all read at least some of his stuff or know a bit about him.
This guy was the very definition of prodigy and potential. I'm not trying to stroke the guy off, but in all seriousness, looking at his body of work, his achievements, he could have been one of the greats. I was just reading A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, and my god, everything sings. Everything is good.
Do you agree /lit/? Or was he a hack who hid behind irony like everyone here says he is?
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kek-tier author
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>>7370404
No discernible talent.
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he was a certain reader's type of author for sure
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Is Dostoevsky postmodern? A lit major in one of my classes today said he was.
pic unrelated
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Is Homer Neo-Classical?
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>>7370361
No, but Notes from Underground is a touchstone for postmodernism.
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No he's Modern. Early modern.
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>The incompetence of the American military
>Blind Japanese samurai and a Japanese otaku 2chan poster
>Stupid concepts like quislings and feral children
>Israel is best rael
>"Muh dogs even though I hated them but now I attack people that do and now I'm in a special K9 unit durrrrrrr"
>DUDE I'M GUARDING RICH CELEBRITIES AND BILL MAHER AND ANNE COULTER ARE HAVING SEX ON THE BEACH LMAO
Why do people pretend to like this book again?
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>>7370125
Feral children are rad as fuck.
Stopped reading.
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>>7370125
Because people are varied and thus will derive enjoyment from different things, this book is one of them.
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>>7370125
>quislings
Made me laugh how stupid that was; people that aren't zombies attacking people as if they were.
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To what degree can this be considered a psychedelic novel?
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>>7370119
As far as I could tell, not very, unless you count confusing as psychedelic.
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>>7370119
3rd degree. The Dedalus chapters are proto-psychedelic, Circe speaks for itself, rest not so much.
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>>7370119
>using a sharpie to fix your shitty book
how poor can you get?
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Hey, I'm sitting next to a pile of four books, trying to decide what to read next--I'd really appreciate your input. They are:
1. Norwegian Wood by Murakami
2. The Devil in the White City by Larson
3. Middlesex by Eugenides and
4. Little Big Man by Berger
Any help is appreciated, as is your time, as is the withholding of any general abuse this post may incline you towards. Thanks!
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>>7370007
Those aren't Greek.
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>>7370017
Well, Eugenides is.
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OK, just tell me if Norwegian Wood is a good place to start with Murakami.
"Raskolnik" is literally Russian for "schismatic" ("ov" is one of three Russian suffixes at the end of the name to indicate masculinity).
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Yeah lots of the names in that book are like that
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>>7369846
>"Raskolnik" is literally Russian for "schismatic"
And what is English for "schismatic"?
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Marmaladeson.
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Is this shit the 19th century version of welcome to the NHK?
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I am not sure how this comfy core book is even similar.
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>>7369764
I would say White Night by Fyodor Dostoyevsky is more up that alley.
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>tfw retarded
Any books can help this?
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>>7369349
How retarded. You gotta give me something to work with bruv.
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>>7369351
he's so retarded he can't even explain how retaded he is
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>>7369461
now that's pretty retarded