/lit/ - Literature

>>10749340
They overlap in the sense that they prescribe absolute goals for human existence. Kantian and Aristotelian philosophy exemplify deontology and virtue ethics, respectively. Kant posited that the origin of duty lies in reason itself; the only way to be truly autonomous (and free) is to act according to the categorical imperative, otherwise, your will is bound to explicitly material considerations (hypothetical imperatives). Aristotle thought that the virtues brought about happiness and pleasure in all cases, and that one could not be meaningfully happy without living a virtuous life, because any act or behavior lacking virtue would entail an excess or defect in a certain state of character, which implies a failure to act in the proper way under given circumstances. A coward cannot be happy like a brave man because his disposition conflicts with what he knows to be right, if he is incontinent, and if not, he will face ostracism regardless of whether he believes the improper act (e.g. fleeing a battlefield) to be proper or improper.

These ethics, at least, are similar in that they assert a highest human or rational good. They differ as to the nature of the good, how the good is achieved, how it is maintained, and how it is to be understood.

>>10095234
You have much profound information to give about God, and have for thousands of years “searched the depths of the Godhead,” and looked into its heart, so that you can doubtless tell us how God himself attends to “God’s cause,” which we are called to serve. And you do not conceal the Lord’s doings, either. Now, what is his cause? Has he, as is demanded of us, made an alien cause, the cause of truth or love, his own? You are shocked by this misunderstanding, and you instruct us that God’s cause is indeed the cause of truth and love, but that this cause cannot be called alien to him, because God is himself truth and love; you are shocked by the assumption that God could be like us poor worms in furthering an alien cause as his own. “Should God take up the cause of truth if he were not himself truth?” He cares only for his cause, but, because he is all in all, therefore all is his cause! But we, we are not all in all, and our cause is altogether little and contemptible; therefore we must “serve a higher cause.” — Now it is clear, God cares only for what is his, busies himself only with himself, thinks only of himself, and has only himself before his eyes; woe to all that is not well-pleasing to him. He serves no higher person, and satisfies only himself. His cause is — a purely egoistic cause.

There is no more room for sincere tragedy or comedy because to have one or the other would require its participants to have some quality of humanity. The pure ideology of humanism (the religion of "I Myself"), by extruding any uniqueness into a generality, has killed all four (peculiarity, generality, tragedy, and comedy). A contemporary epic would have to subvert the appeal of the unique as general (the banal unique), i.e. break the neopagan postmodernist mode of art that expresses genius peculiarity as a general condition.

The "neoreactionaries" work toward this in the form of petitioning a regression to norms of inequality, but the end of this philosophy simply brings us back to where we currently are. What is needed is a dismissal of both Marx and Hegel, and a radical reassertion of the inequality and ungenerality inherent in the notion of uniqueness.

>>9347767
Qualia is the modern spooky big daddy, the ruler in the domain of contemporary philosophical tautology. Much like God, its definition precludes deductive or inductive proofs of it. It is a dogma

>>9330428
>being comfortable with who you are is somehow a bad thing
>believes he should be something
>is a strict antinatalist

You are haunted as fuck my man, it's no wonder you don't get laid more often

>>9243593
>rights
>>9243595
>murder

haunted AS FUCK

>>9161226
>being this spooked

Get it together, my property. Women are humans as you are a human, what exactly terrifies you about them?

>>9161251
Gay men almost universally select females as friends. Perhaps try a different tactic?

>>9100991
>worshiping

>>7287288
Doors are a spook, mate. Never answer to doors.

cptn spooks

Made this yesterday for a Stirner thread since I was bored out of my mind.

Fresh OC, fellas.