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>>7863562

>>7503196
>Yes, struggle is necessary in life, tragedy helps us grow.
only because you choose to fight in the first place, to gain what you think you want, then to maintain your gain.

only the hedonist lives on tragedy. and you know what such guy is called ? a woman.

hey anons

is bibliotik down not working for you guys too?

>>7326411
silence is untouchable by entertainment

>What is ancient philosophy? Pierre Hadot makes very clear what he thinks it is not: it is not the deposit of philosophical concepts, theories and systems to be found in the surviving texts of Graeco-Roman antiquity, the subject matter of courses of study in the curricula of modern universities. This subject matter indeed does constitute the “philosophical discourse” of the ancient philosophers. But that discourse is itself merely the expression of what Hadot takes to be the essence of ancient philosophy which, in his view, is . way of life. In the author’s own words, “Philosophical discourse … originates in a choice of life and an existential option—not vice-versa … . This existential option, in turn, implies a certain vision of the world, and the task of philosophical discourse will therefore be to reveal and rationally to justify this existential option, as well as this representation of the world” (p. 3). Moreover, philosophy both as a way of life and as its justifying discourse is not the attainment and deployment of wisdom, but “merely a preparatory exercise for wisdom” which “tend[s] toward wisdom without ever achieving it” (p. 4). It is the primary purpose of this book to establish these claims for ancient philosophy as a whole by demonstrating it to be true of each of its major parts.

>>7287382
because for many rationalist, objective means universal agreement from all of what they judge as humans. since humans are born and die each day, you seek a human trait not depending on time and space. to the rationalist, this stuff transcending time and space is the reason.

but since the rationalist refuses to acknowledge that the reason is a subpart of the imagination and that any production of of the imagination is bound to be cast in terms of space and time, since space and time is just what the imagination produces, since it is the job of the mind/imagination to categorize and hierarchize the perceptions, the rationalist can never escape the statements in terms of space and time. Since the scientific activity is nothing but one of the use of the imagination/mind, science is disconnected from the praxis/life.


Only what you are concious of once you make your mind cease brings you to truth, since precisely you shut off the stuff that makes you believe in space and time, in categories like self, like necessity, like ontology, like objectivity and so on. So once you connect to life, once that you stop thinking, you reach knowledge which is, for once, not analytical, contrary to the productions of the mind which is nothing but speculation. The mind is nihilist, but once you go full praxis, you discover that the mind is a cross to bear and leads you nowhere.

>>7279691
He confuses icons and idols. because secular liberal institutions have idols instead of icons. idols are empty, they just exists and are praised by the populace. Icons convey a message to the populace, whose message is necessarily beyond the daily hedonistic life. Icons deliver a message about The control of the desires, which is the great systematic result of the good life since the greeks. Icons are praised through rituals. But the liberal despise rituals, at least those who are not about praising the human rights..

the liberals have no pictural representation to turn into proselytism to assert liberalism, at least in the classical sense, whose practice is nothing but
-creation of concepts/models/theories in the universities which is the fantasy of the rationalist [or worse, the one of the libertarian against the licence]
-leisure for the populace [which is the fantasy of the liberal]

Most people do not have the means to assert their hedonism. And those who do must face their lassitude leading them to create the notion of merit. Since the merit is a phony concept, they fail miserably and the hedonist romanticizes the spleen of the hedonistic life style. The populace which lives vicariously since, being the populace, it does not have the means for leisure, nor for the rationalism is left


this is why the occidental humanism is lost in individualist consumerism on the verge of nihilism for the most fallacious people.

The great fantasy of the rationalist-liberal is to merge the screen of the rationalist which delivers numbers, therefore truths connected to reality, with the screen of the liberal which delivers entertainment. The fantasy is to learn while you have fun. This would stop the masses to live vicariously. Of course, it will fail miserably and the populace will remain the populace. The comfort of living vicariously is far too great to actually work hard in order to obtain the means to stop living the hedonistic life style vicariously.