Archived threads in /lit/ - Literature - 718. page

>>9718308
This is the edition i have. Is there a better translation i should be using?

>>9718308
By learning Russian

>>9718308
get a better translation

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classic Boylestad text on electrical circuit analysis , have 1987 5th edition

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systems engineering master treatise : 1988 "Principles of AI and Expert Systems Development" Lisp Machine book by military contractor ESL/TRW and AI consultant David Rolston

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semiconductors from the quantum fields up to transistor junctions

>he couldn't have been saved by his grandfather out of the maw of the beast of the void to save his father from the archetype of his mother
plebe

I wouldn't worry about it, Peterson is a hack who uses Jungian mysticism to justify his prejudices and narrow world view.

He basically is making stuff up half the time.

>>9718207
Can you explain this in simpler terms

>>9718166
>not reading Mahayana scriptures

Sorry, I only read white males.

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>>9718166
>starting with the Nepalese
>not reconstructing the original indoeuropean texts by doing an stochastic statistical analysis of old myths

>>9718118
Spanish is easier from the perspective of an English speaker. Russian literature is probably better, although you'd need to know a bit of pre-reform Russian

>>9718118
As an English speaker, Russian will be much much easier for you to learn than Spanish.

>>9718126
>>9718128

2 answers both hold an opposite opinion
this is somewhat unsatisfying

Bump you bastards

>>9718056
read it again
or V. by Thomas Pynchon
or the Puttermesser Papers by Cynthia Ozick
or Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie

idk who cares

>>9718056
DFW was heavily inspired by Delillo, so IJ

this is not /phi/

>>9718014
>Doesn't realize that /lit/ is the de facto philosophy board and always has been.

>>9718004
From someone that knows shit all about philosophy can you tell me how Nietzsche ended philosophy?
Philosophy always seemed like such a bullshit subjective mental masturbation exercise in which every philosopher was trying to one up the other. Am I off base here?

>>9718003
it's a fun action adventure and people complaining about the ship catalog are a bunch of pussies

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> you will never hear Homer recite intricate passages of The Illiad, possibly sung in a large booming voice
> you will never hear the names of your ancient ancestors referenced as they are called to battle, the audience cheering because they're so proud of your ancestors

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>>9718012
>that last part

>>9717983
There can be an earth, but with no sun there can be no life. Tying sexuality to the sun and earth, the sun is the male and earth the female. Men were and still are considered the dominant gender. Ergo the sun became the primary focus of religion being the masculine influence.

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Perpetual vigilance and eternal hellfire.

nigga go campin in the winter and you'll see why people worshiped the sun

OP is an expert on when and why horse do and don't come.

What kind of shit posting is this

>>9717699
but that was genuinely the best part, wtf

Can you describe the basic thesis of the book?

>>9717571
as I said I'm only 75 pages in right now, but its pretty much about how all our language/memes/thoughts are based on analogies, which are nebulous and constantly changing.

>>9717578
This has been done many times before, e.g., by the people who inspired Fauconnier's/Turner's theory. Which this book actually uses and cites, though fairly badly it looks like.

But F+T are massive, derivative hacks compared to many major writers on this topic in the last 50-100 years. Ctrl+f'ed Wittgenstein, just ONE of them, and not only is he barely mentioned, this is the mention:
>We might begin by asking what a bird is. According to classical philosophers, whose view went essentially unchallenged in philosophy for centuries, until the studies of philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, published in the 1950's, the category bird should have a precise definition consisting of necessary and sufficient conditions for an entity’s membership in the category, such as “possesses two feet”, “has skin covered with feathers”, “has a beak”, “lays eggs”.

Classical metaphysics/ontotheology was "unchallenged" until the "studies" of Wittgenstein in the 1950's?

Jesus Christ. I'm normally sympathetic to eclectic and sui generis studies, that just get their ideas out and don't feel beholden to academic orthodoxy. But why bother including shit like this if you're going to be so lazy and retarded about it?

There are times it feels like Schopenhauer didn't even understand what Hegel's long-term goal was. Like Schoppy was playing checkers and rambling on about Kant while Hegel was playing chess and setting the state for the next 200 years of politics and economics.

Schopenhauer? idk desu

>>9717443

Hegel was playing pickup sticks while Schopenhauer was playing interdimensional GO!

Hegel is literally the worst thing that hat ever happened in philosophy

as long as it will take for you to stop being a faggot

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Well as of right now, it's apparently possible to get accepted to top schools by only writing "#BlackLivesMatter" in your application essay, so I'd say it's only a matter of time.

>>9717429
>American """"""""""education"""""""""

Pope Benedict argues that it was to commune with God in the best way he could while he was incarnated as a human. He is God Himself, after all, but there are two other persons of the Trinity which are also God. When Jesus was a man, there was a kind of kink in their normal communication, which Jesus made up for by praying.

>>9717142
The Bible is a collection of different stories that don't fit together perfectly.

>>9717142
The way Jesus talks about prayer implies that it's a lot more than just telephoning God.

>>9717137
huh, same thing happened to hitler

funny

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>>9717137

>>9717137
I wonder what choa likes to read. Sartre maybe? I know she's going through a rough time right now. Hope she'll be alright.