/lit/ - Literature

Was it autism?

Can somebody recommend a book about the futility of trying to reason about the root causes of sociological phenomenon? Something like picrel, but with sociology or something as its target rather than metaphysics.

I was watching the "whatever" podcast today and it occurred to me that these people and everyone in the "(red/blue/purple/whatever) pills" community were going in circles trying to reason about human behaviors and systems in which so many different causes are at play that their machinations will always be completely inscrutable.

Easier to just post the book.

I have never seen another book trigger The Lib so hard before.

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>>15867004
I'm currently on my third read of Critique of Pure Reason just for some recreational reading and it is quite enjoyable.

>>15318770
Yes, many.
One would be Kant's universal maxim, that you shouldn't commit an action unless you are certain you could will into existence a world where everyone thought killing themselves was acceptable all the time.
Moreover, Kant would argue that human beings should only ever be treated as ends in themselves, and that killing yourself is using yourself as a means to end your own suffering. As you are just as much a human being as everyone around you, you must treat yourself only as you would treat your fellow man- as ends in themselves, never a means. if you would not kill your fellow man to relieve your own suffering, then you should not kill yourself because it's the same thing.