/lit/ - Literature

The closest thing is some kind of appeal to subjectivity where the luckiest bunch claim that their limited short lives were worth it so it justifies bringing new, decaying carcasses who will inevitably suffer. There is no way for that person to not look at it any other way than an injustice, and essentially a crime.

What the fuck was his problem?

Has anyone read Mainlander's work?

I understand that an English translation is now available, which I hope to read.

As I understand it, his concept was that God represents a unified whole of non-existence, and that this whole was degraded by multiplicity in the material realm, with each monad of consciousness representing a piece of God's corpse rotting in the world of phenomena where suffering is abundant and inescapable. If that is correct, doesn't Mainlander's idea have many similarities with gnosticism (admittedly my understand of gnosticism is rather superficial) in that the true, ideal state of things is non-existence (or a unified existence in spirit, beyond the realm of phenomena) and that pro-creation, or in other words increased multiplicity, is simply a further descent into misery and suffering? It is almost as if Mainlander conceives the demiurge in this case to represent multiplicity (i.e., further division of consciousness into more monads of conscious beings) and that anything which contributes to this multiplicity (namely procreation, and anything which promotes procreation or even the excitement of one's material desires, e.g., new art works, types of food, novel experiences) are essentially in service of the demiurge, while anything which promotes asceticism, contentment, peace, withdrawal is in service of the ideal represented by the deceased God?

>wrote a huge book
>killed himself to make hype
>no one cares
is he the main loser in the history of philosophy?