/lit/ - Literature

nee-chee

Ever noticed how 4chan uses the word "cope" where they mean ressentiment?

>gets his ideas BTFO by Dostoevsky before he even writes his first book

Sophist

Most reddit philosopher bar none

Is German the most /lit/ language?

Eternal recurrence is peak of human though

The dying Socrates.
>I admire the courage and wisdom of Socrates in
everything he did, said - and did not say. This mocking, love-sick
monster and pied piper of Athens, who made the most audacious youths
of Athens tremble and sob, was not only the wisest chatterer of all time;
he was equally great in silence. I wish he had remained silent also in the last moments of his lif e - per haps he would then belong to a still
higher order of minds. Whether it was death or the poison or piety or
malice - something loosened his tongue and he said: 'O Crito, I owe
Asclepius a rooster.' This ridiculous and terrible 'last word' means for
those who have ears: 'O Crito, lift is a disease.'31 Is it possible that a
man like him, who had lived cheerfully and like a soldier in plain view
of everyone, was a pessimist? He had merely kept a cheerful demeanour
while all his life hiding his ultimate judgement, his inmost
feeling! Socrates, Socrates suffered from lift! And then he still avenged
himself - with this veiled, gruesome, pious, and blasphemous saying.
Did a Socrates really need revenge? Was there one ounce too little
magnanimity in his overabundant virtue? - 0 friends! We must
overcome even the Greeks!

How is he prescribing such meaning to Socrates last words ?

What did he want?

Does he have a convincing critique of truth?

How do you take his perspectivist claims?

It strikes me that, in a lot of his canonical and published work this is very very unclear. A lot of plebs seem to take this whole post-modern 'truth denying' edifice from some quotations in his notebooks: 'there are no facts etc.' with only some direct textual support (BGE 5). It strike me that we can't attribute such a strong commitment to any semantic claims, any claims about the denial of truth to him. It strikes me that would be a bit of a non-question for him.

How do you interpret 'perspectivism'?

What would Nietzsche say about Jordan Peterson fans and /pol/-tards if he was alive today?

“The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, and blaspheme the whole.”