/lit/ - Literature

>>4450806
It could be.

>>4067587
Nothing, make a great bow around philosophy.
>return before it's too late

Weakling.

>>2859207
>implying there is an ego to be shed

No merit whatsoever.

>>2775969
>Nihilism when it was formed by Nietzsche wasnt well thought out.
I'm afraid your wrong concerning this. The term existed long before Nietzsche, and nihilism as a term used by Nietzsche denotes something very different than the nihilism we are discussing now. Nietzsche used it as people that place their values in something otherworldly, which, not existing, are actually based in nothingness. Thus Nietzsche claimed Christianity to be nihilistic, for example.

>In which case the nihilism is nullified
Thus bringing itself to it utter logical end, whereby everything, including itself, is nullified. Glorious. This is actually an argument for nihilism being totally consistent by not being the exception to it's own rule.

I think zen is closely related to nihilism, but even more so to scepticism. Zen is even more refined and carefull in not making such forceful claims, always stating "not this, not the other", "not one, not two" et cetera. It has learned to not even engage in the game of truth anymore.

Not the guy you were responding to by the way.

>>2686917
Nothing.

>>2641542
Indeed, friend.

>implying /lit/ hasn't transcended such vulgar activity

>>2500317
>Would he also view a Samurai as a kind of nihilist, because Bushido is largely zen influenced, or is the Samurai a good exemplar of saying yes to life?

I would say it is a rather life affirming nihilism. Nietzsche used nihilism against his 'enemies' as a term that meant turning away from life. The Christian resorting to an afterlife, for example. The modern use of nihilism is more associated with the denial of inherent value or meaning. The latter is what Nietzsche did himself, but which is also an integral part of (Zen) Buddhism. In Buddhism this is called Sunyata or emptiness. Another similarity is the Buddhism concept of anatman, no-self, which Nietzsche ascribed to himself in a way.

Buddhism, especially Zen variants, could be said to have gazed into the abyss, but still maintained a vital way of life. Buddhism is in that way a nihilism that embraced life as such. It could even be said that by learning to be suspended in not knowing, by living in it, nihilism is already overcome as a crippling problem. Emptiness is found, accepted, and life continues stronger than before, because there is no foundation that can crumble anymore, it suspends itself wholly.

It's beautiful.

This guy at the moment. Stirner should have thrown away the self too. Descartian faggot.

So I need to do a paper comparing two short storied by the same author. I was going to do Poe but my professor said she gets a paper about him ever semester and would rather not read another.

I like stories that aren't too sappy, out dated, or uneventful. If you could recommend a good short story author that I should look into, I would be most appreciative.