/lit/ - Literature

>This, incidentally, is almost the whole weakness of Nietzsche, whom some are representing as a bold and strong thinker. No one will deny that he was a poetical and suggestive thinker; but he was quite the reverse of strong. He was not at all bold. He never put his own meaning before himself in bald abstract words: as did Aristotle and Calvin, and even Karl Marx, the hard, fearless men of thought. Nietzsche always escaped a question by a physical metaphor, like a cheery minor poet. He said, "beyond good and evil," because he had not the courage to say, "more good than good and evil," or, "more evil than good and evil." Had he faced his thought without metaphors, he would have seen that it was nonsense. So, when he describes his hero, he does not dare to say, "the purer man," or "the happier man," or "the sadder man," for all these are ideas; and ideas are alarming. He says "the upper man," or "over man," a physical metaphor from acrobats or alpine climbers. Nietzsche is truly a very timid thinker. He does not really know in the least what sort of man he wants evolution to produce. And if he does not know, certainly the ordinary evolutionists, who talk about things being "higher," do not know either.

pfffffffffffhahahahahaha, get FUCKED freddy

>>3593851 basically this. Do you expect to excell at anything when you can't even fend for yourself? Pathetic. Take your NEET shit to /r9k/.

Is it possible to enjoy philosophy and not be a pretentious dick about it?

Where to start?

What were your expectations getting into Nietzsche? Were they broken? matched?

>>3435342

here: >>3434704

fuck off with this harry potter shit will you?

german existentialism general

I am interested in philosophy. What are some essential works and writers that I should read?

>>3370510
>The moral nihilism unleashed by /pol/

You mean the moral nihilism unleashed by millennia of Christian morality turning against itself due the mendacity of its origins and its fostering of the moral-valuation of "truthfulness".

How come everyone who is into philosophy is a pseudo intellectual douchebag?

“You work yourself into the tightest group, see to it, if possible, to get yourself shoved up over the others so that you come to be above them, and as soon as you are up there you make yourself as comfortable as possible, and in this way you let yourself be carried through life.” But when the crowd is gone, when the event is over, you again stand on the street corner and look at the world.

Where do I start?

>>3187426
I find your lack of amor fati disturbing.

Hi /lit/
I need your opinion regarding philosophy books/authors. Although I've never read any philosophy books before, I carelessly bought 2 books from Nietzche.

So far I've enjoyed this book very much, but some folks tell me that If I am to read philosophy, I should start from the greeks and go forward through the timeline.

Do you think I should stop reading and start with greeks first? finish this book then go to greeks? I wouldn't like to leave this book half-read....

Opinions welcome

>>3080551
>Wagner