/lit/ - Literature

>>17450257
Kant speaks in inadequate words, which hide a mighty and scarcely apprehensible intuition, an intuition of the world as appearance or phenomenon. In Schopenhauer this becomes the world as brain-phenomenon (Gehirnphiinomen). The change-over from tragic philosophy to philosophical plebeianism is complete. It will be enough to cite one passage.

In "The World as Will and Idea" Schopenhauer says: The will, as thing-in-itself, constitutes the inner, true and indestructible essence of the man; in itself, how-ever, it is without consciousness. For the consciousness is conditioned by the intellect and this is a mere accident of our being, since it is a function of the brain, and that again (with its dependent nerves and spinal cord) is a mere fruit, a product, nay, even a parasite of the rest of the organism, inasmuch as it does not intervene directly in the latter's activities but only serves a purpose of self-preservation by regulating its relations with the outer world." Here we have exactly the fundamental position of the flattest materialism.

It was not for nothing that Schopenhauer, like Rousseau before him, studied the English sensualists. From them he learned to misread Kant in the spirit of megalopolitan utilitarian modernity. The intellect as instrument of the will-to-life, as weapon in the struggle for existence, the ideas brought to grotesque expression by Shaw in "Man and Superman" - it was because this was his view of the world that Schopenhauer became the fashionable philosopher when Darwin's main work was published in 1859. In contrast to Schelling. Hegel and Fichte, he was a philosopher, and the only philosopher, whose metaphysical propositions could be absorbed with ease by intellectual mediocrity. The clarity of which he was so proud threatened at every moment to reveal itself as triviality. While retaining enough of formula to produce an atmosphere of profundity and exclusiveness, he presented the civilized view of the world complete and assimilable. His system is anticipated Darwinism, and the speech of Kant and the concepts of the Indians are simply clothing. In his book "Ueber den Willen in der Natur" (1835) we find already the struggle for self-preservation in Nature, the human intellect as master-weapon in that struggle and sexual love as unconscious selection according to biological interest.

>The west, as a human project, is extremely beautiful, so beautiful it makes my heart bleed, it makes my soul quiver, it makes my spirit weep, and it's dying before my eyes
>So you're gonna look sad for this shot, bro?
>No, no, I need to be extremely masculine, stoic, and proud, like a Spartan or some shit, it's gonna be so dignified

>>14222505
I can attest to this. Women have an immense contribution to this problem with their own jealousy. I have had two separate occasions in my life where the female friend, or girlfriend of two different close male friends asked me if I was gay with them. One of those male friends is a childhood friend who I have known since I was 11. It's like they can't even understand male bonding. Do they not have close female friends of their own?

There is no glory in fighting for a dying, degenerating, avaricious, ugly, cultureless, and self mutilating culture. What is the contemporary US's culture? Marvel movies? Reddit and Instagram? Traffic deadlocks, stagnant real wages, declining life expectancy, rising suicide rates, more and more relying on pharmaceuticals to even have the will to live, tanking fertility levels, the death of art, the death of love. Why would you want to wear an american flag and get shipped off to a desert to be shot at? Are you stupid?

What Guenon proposes the Western man will not be able to emulate. We live in the times of scientism.

>>13015073
you exactly know what's wrong

>>12646486

Philosophy is cyclical

>>10833209
say that one more fucking time

Why is the "naturalistic fallacy" considered a fallacy? Outside of an intervening spiritual authority it is the only basis of morality and we can see that much of our already established morality, namely the core aspects of it stem from this.

>>10476597

>>10019786
unless capitalism dies and with it the racial unconsciousness of the lest 150 years

Affirm decline.

>>8337794
soon*

*within the next 50/100 years