I get that Augustine is religious but why does he have to shove

>>9397163
>buys a biographical book that deals with the deep religiosity of a saint

>WTF??? WHERE IS MY RATIONAL PHILOSOPHY????

>>9397163
Haha, are you for real?

>>9397163
O Lord I hope this is bait. But here goes.

A couple points...

1 - For Augustine there is no division between the religion and the philosophical ideas. You want one, you have to take the other.

2 - You misunderstand the genre. The entire idea of a confession is a very personal account of his actions leading to the present position from which he writes. Don't pick up a book that is inherently personal and narrative and then deride it for not being a philosophical treatise. Look up his City of God or De Doctrina Christiana or any of the volumes of treatises he did write.

3 - Maybe you need a book on Augustine if you're looking for a distillation of ideas. Maybe Chadwick's Very Short Introduction? I really like Brian Stock's Augustine the Reader. Or maybe Wikipedia is more your speed.

4 - Fuck off. Show an ounce of modesty before one of the classics of western literature.

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I get that Kafka is nervous wreck but why does he have to shove his anxiety in our face? I read this book because I wanted to read a story about a trial, not the same old bourgeoise LOOK AT ME I'M SO DEPRESSED.

>>9397202
This thread is bait. I remember the same thread last week. No amount of explaining got this guy to be less retarded.

>>9397213
Cheers, mate.

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I get that Deleuze is literally insane but why does he have to shove his lack of coherence in our face? I read this book because I wanted to experience the Guattari-Deleuze bromance, not the same old, pseudointellectusl nonsense about MUH BRAIN IS NOT WORKING PROPERLY.

>>9397163
Someone made a thread stating the same thing previously and I suspect it was you, OP.

How come you bought a book focusing on religious confessions and enlightenment and expected something else other than confessions? It's literally the title of the book, OP.

Are you trying to bait us, OP, or are you really retarded?

>>9397163

> doesn't want person accounts
> reads an autobiography

Pure bait that isn't even a logically coherent bait.

I'm reading this book right now. It's pretty powerful and humbling. Augustine gave up his 12 year old soon to be wife to live a life of celibacy and service for God. That takes incredible willpower. I honestly don't believe I could make the same sacrifice.

>>9397576

maybe he did it because he was a fag

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I get that Ayn Rand is quite capable and happy, but why does she have to shove her happiness in our face? I read this book because I wanted to mock capitalists intelligently, not because I wanted to reconsider the premises in my life that lead to my clinical depression.

>>9397590
No he talks about his crippling lust for women and how he almost led his buddy Alypius astray by setting a bad example. He had to find a woman to live with him and have sex with until he would be married to his wife since she was still 10 years old and too young.

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I get that Burroughs does drugs but why does he have to shove his addiction in our face? I read this book because I wanted original experimental experience, not the same old junky nonsense about MUH OPIATES.