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>>9658436
Obviously yes, stupid goy

What do you mean by 'refuted'?

>>9658436
Refute what you fucking goy, it was never true. As you can see nothing of it happens

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Just stop trying and follow the thesis-antithesis-synthesis meme like 80% of other people

>>9658379
he is the only philosopher ive ever really had trouble getting a good grip on, besides husserl's primary text, which i feel i at least got the gist of. he is just a tough nut to crack, but im now getting a better sense of how other philosopher's have used him, and am going to give it another try this year

>>9658379
Don't bother learning philosophy.

>>9658251

>he found the Greeks too hard to read, and gave up
>he attempts to defend this

>>9658251
>implying i didn't read them

>>9658251
πλεβ

>>9658155
There's un-ironically nothing wrong with that man, or his opinions, for that matter. Even degenerate anime furries understand at least on a primal level, the importance of the Tribe. The friend/enemy distinction. Leftists are just on a whole new plane of Delusion. even a fool can see it.

>>9658204
Do you have a tribal tattoo as well?

>>9658155
The shift in teaching art as a craft, containing standards and requiring technical knowledge with an external end, like honoring God or hinting at the sublime, to a mere vehicle for self-expression.

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example

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does this look right to you?

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i dunno i just think there's something weird about it

>>9657980
How do you Western anons view the concept of Wu Wei and Taoism in general? As a Chinese person I found some concepts of Taoism in general (particularly Wu Wei) very helpful. Maybe it's just because I tend to overthink.

>>9658305
Daoism is acknowledged as an ancient, complete religion with deities, monastic life, rituals, immortality and much more - effectively a Chinese ancestral religion as it even incorporated beliefs and practices that predate a historical Laozi.

But the Daoism anons care about is mostly the philosophical Daoism of the Daodejing and Zhuangzi, those looking into earlier Chinese metaphysics read the Yijing, and Neiye is for those into meditation.

This Daoism isn't as foreign as one might think: Heraclitus and process philosophy too see the only unchanging thing about the universe to be the necessity of change. Stoicism advocates a "life according to Nature" that doesn't entail futile resistance, ancient philosophy in general sees philosophy as a way of life in addition to organized thought. Concept of patient and agent in metaphysics can't help it, they remind people of Yin and Yang, respectively.

The Dao Companion to Daoist Philosophy calls for a proper, rigorous comparative study of Greek and Daoist philosophy by scholars trained in both the ancient Greek and Chinese languages, which hasn't happened quite yet.

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get stirner out of there ffs you already have laozi

see? it's already more interesting

>>9657603
It's a joke.

Some people like to drink a lot, but keep themselves under wraps such that you wouldn't think of calling them an alcoholic.

However, if someone acts like an asshole or eccentric in general (you don't like them) and they happen to drink, you'll angrily call them an alcoholic.

I'm no analytical linguist but I think it's trying to say people just attribute alcoholism to people they don't like when it is likely the have similar drinking habits, because it's an easy thing to call someone who drinks a sizeable amount an alcoholic rather than properly assess their alcohol intake

>>9657612
>>9657615

you guys are proper gents. Thanks for explaining.

I literally can't express how much better my life has been since I attended Oxford. I went to a state school and gradually became the stereotypical moody, withdrawn sensitive type who both despises the quality of his immediate culture and feels a weird pride for having been raised in a sort of anti-intellectual and brutal environment. I was all set to take my Russell Group humanities BA and spend my life working as an anonymous, insecure wageslave forever thankful of being offered a job and forever too insecure to pursue my creative ambitions. The chip on my shoulder had become something of a wedge, and I felt too out of place regardless of my environment, too resentful and bitter to even attempt to make it in the artistic world. Then I finally applied for Oxford and got in to study an English MA, with reassurance that should I work hard enough a career in academia or within one of Oxford's affiliated companies would be almost guaranteed. I turned up as apprehensive as usual, and the first few days were spent regretting my decision and desperately feigning a cultured personality. But then I realized that the people there were just interesting and that the snobbery and exclusivity I had anticipated was just a myth borne out of my working class upbringing. I've since graduated, having spend the year dining in grand halls with groups of interesting people, dating several girls (one of whom, a petite Russian whose family traces back to the aristocracy, is now my fiancee). I work four days a week at a publishing company and earn £38k a year. I regularly meet up with friends from my college and visit Oxford for nights out and for meetings with my professors. The Martin Eden-esque novel I have been writing for two years has been selected for publication at a major British publishing house and, honestly, I could not have imagined a few years ago how great life could be. I come on /lit/ and see how pathetic you all are and just shake my head and chuckle. If I saw you guys on the street I would of course throw you a penny or discuss Bukowski or whatever "realist" writers you enjoy, but ultimately I would be able to tell within ten seconds if you're an Oxbridge grad and would dismiss you as a potential source of good company if you are not. I never thought I'd know what it was like to be objectively better than somebody else, for the value of my existence to be superior to the value of a stranger's, but now I do and I've never been happier. People are awed by power and prestige. All I need to do is mention the university I attended (if only for a year) and they immediately begin to hunch and look at their feet because they know they are in the presence of greatness.

>does anyone on a Chinese girl cartoon picture website go to a university that only a top percentage of non sperglords goes to?
Oh yes anon, I had a blast. Ivy League is almost Like gold league, but most boss raids are way harder.

>>9657463
heh

google it fag

>>9657368
>the nose
>Dostoyevsky

Anyway, just be sure to get an annotated version.

P & V

i wonder

it stopped being exporting and american posers didn't read it

>>9657158
The Soviet Union happened

>>9657025

What?

If anything, he's Shakespeare's most self-aware. Whoever you were talking to is retarded.

craft your own arguments or dont talk to anyone again

>>9657054
He is not Shakespeare's most self-aware character. I'd argue Brutus is more self-aware.

>>9656992
The sea wolf

call of the wild

>>9657002
and blood meridian

t. very mild person

the book of mormon

>>9656935
Heidegger`s Beign and Time

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The FUCKING Bible

>>9656932

the writing is pretty terrible but I guess good text is a spook too

>>9656937
Original german or the translation that is terrible?

>Morality is a spook
>What Hitler did was evil

Stoner, although it is a meme around here now it got me pretty well because I was so much like Stoner.

None.

4, waiting to see what college is willing to suck me in to their void. Doubting Harvard or anything of the likes. My grades aren't all A's.

>>9656928

Where the red fern grows. Read it in elementary school, never recovered.

Marijuana ( still not legal where I live)

1....I WANT TO LIVE!!

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>>9656928
1. Pic-related
2. THC
3. Not sure I could accurately answer that question.

>>9656936
SAT, Essay, and Extra-currics are just as important