/lit/ - Literature

>>20905487
Have a list:
1) Vidal: Julian
2) Harris: Cicero Trilogy and Pompeii
3) Massie: Augustus, Caesar, Caligula, Tiberius, Nero's Heirs
4) Graves: I Claudius, Claudius the God
5) Williams: Augustus
6) Green: The Sword of Pleasure
7) Sienkiewicz: Quo Vadis
8) Duggan: Family Favourites, The Little Emperors
9) Yourcenar: Memoirs of Hadrian
10) Hersey: The Conspiracy
11) Feuchtwanger: Josephus Trilogy
12: Pater: Marius the Epicurean

>>20708859
Sebald, Zweig, Frisch

>>19023271
Nietzsche, Dostoevsky, Hesse, Lem, Soseki, Mishima

>>18174783
Early Christianity did a lot of imports from Hellenic traditions including the more brainy stuff. Some of the writing in the Apocrypha is in decent prose because of that. They actually still do this, ever read Teilhard de Chardin ? Basically you take the really hot new stuff like the Blockchain (Event Horizons for Teilhard) and then say "hey, there's Jesus right there, we always saw this coming, it's in the scripture". Add a bit math to not seem stupid but definitely keep to the original story. Muslims do this as well, like the AIDS cure or Light-Speed measurement in the Quran.

>>18106919
Any Dharmic religion is still better than any Abrahamic faith.

>>16498664
It's hard to find good ones, there's maybe one /lit anime every four years
Aoi Bungaku
Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou
Mushishi
Nichijou
House of Five Leaves
Mononoke

>>15250163
It's one of the best works (actually four works) in world literature. Re-framing the peculiarity of Mishima's world-view as limitation is just a cheap shot. You could as well call Borges's fixation on Metaphysics a limitation.

>>13219699
The point is that if your selfish actions are dictated by long-term benefit not only do they start to look like morality, they are actually moral. For social animals, long-term benefit for the individual is the same as group benefit. That's why biologists say there is no "pure" altruism can exist for an extended period because it is selected out by the evolutionary process. Even if somebody sacrifices himself, the driving force is still caused by the selfish gene wanting to protect the group (aka it's own copies).

>>12229479
No, it's the result of people not being able to deal with the death of god. Actually, of cultures not being able to deal with that, and people being just the product of those cultures. It will take generations to overcome this.

So, apparently about six months or go I signed up for an audible membership(?) and then forgot all about it. Now that I realised I've been cucking myself out of $15 a month on a service I never use, I'm going to cancel my subscription.

However, apparently I've stored up six free audiobooks to download as a result of my subscription, and I have to download them before I cancel otherwise I won't get them.

What are some of the best audiobooks to download, /lit/? I'm into non-fiction mostly, but the topic doesn't matter so long as it's interesting / enlightening as fuck.

>>11125281
Jorge Louis Borges
Julio Cortazar
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Roberto Bolano
Alberto Manguel

By the way, what would be the complementary group of the "I Fucking Love Science/Science explains fucking errything" crowd be on the Humanities side ? People buying into Occultism, or would it extend to Religious people ?

>>8150944
The correct name for that is Negative Utilitarianism.

>>7506784
Life is locally decreasing the entropy, while at the same time creating much more entropy in general. So the gradient direction as a whole does not change. And if will is agency, then you ARE promoting Teilhardism. God awaits us at the end of the gradient. My point is you don't really need Christianity or any other religion for that. Teilhardism in pure form is not natural science, but it is a philosophy. And definitely not Christian.

>>7277367
OP is a troll doing indirect Ad Hominem. Don't even answer that, it's below /lit standards.

>>5948072
But buying food you then destroy DOES contribute to overproduction because you still need the same amount of food to feed yourself, thus you need more food. The financial aspect is there as well, you spend money on a senseless action.