/lit/ - Literature

>>14251691
This is wrong. Spend read more than 5 minutes into any g/acc related material.
Gender acceleration forces trannies to their logical conclusion, which is total annihilation my the innate human instinct to kill them.

>>13968663
Basically this, Spengler loved metaphysics and has a robust metaphysical system which is the main area he departs from Nietzsche.

>>13924237
Also Wittgenstein.

It's important to understand kant to understand the decline of the West.

>>13421326
Why do you deny instinct?

>>13416368
OP here signing off to hit the gym and get some nuggets. What read if wanna actualize my true self and tear off the shackles from other people's perceptions. From what I know about Hegel's Master/Slave dialectic, Phenomenology of Spirit seems like a good choice.

>>13389695
I'm a Nietzschean but since I dislike most people I know, I would still probably tell where they are hiding.

I am addicted to buying books. Help.

>>13237835
Grapes of Wrath

Because Marxism is the manifestation of slave morality

>>12339593
if it hasn't happened yet ...
yikes

ITT: we list authors who write in a simple, straightforward style that makes their books ideal for language learners. Who are the Houllebecqs, Hemingways and Hesses of Spanish, Italian, Russian, and Polish? Pic unrelated.

>>10183406
How is this not just Kantianism?
>dude we can't know the things in itself because we perceive the world through our limited faculties

>>9054913

stop reading nietzsche imo

>>9022065
>Nietzsche isn't an atheist.
Say what? The philosopher is exclaims "God is Dead", rejects universal values, denies the noumenal realm, abhors teleological explanations, repudiates freedom of the will, and purports the view that all truth is really just an expression of power -- is not an atheist?

My dad prefers a historical novel for Christmas over something that requires thinking (his words). Since I hate both this attitude and the practice of just giving what you would have wanted, I come to you for a book which is a historical novel and fun to read, but also tricks him into learning something.

Same question for any novel for my mother, since she likely has the same requirements; instead of historic she likes mystery. All popsci and easy introductions into philosophy books I gave them tend to gather dust.


Bonus points for stating what they will learn (and "history" does not count). What I think they need the most is to be taught

- not to only invest their time in work and the most stupid entertainment
- not to be attached to their opinions
- mainstream media might have not their best interest in mind
- being able to examine their own shortcomings calmly and accurately, so that they might fix them instead of pretending they are not there


I know that while I am young and growing, they consider their life's work essentially over. It still makes me sad to see the people who taught me to be interested in intellectual pursuits waste away on reality television and idle games on their tablets. My mother at least wants to start a degree now, but the subject is theology of all (tips fedora).

>>8694409

There are no facts, and there is no truth.

You are asking the wrong questions.

>>8669729

Why?

The main critique is that he wasn't an academic/systematic philosopher, which in my eyes has always been a compliment rather than a short-coming.

>>8657532

Religion is a cure in as much as homeopathic piss water is a cure. Disregard all placebos.

Reading Zarathustra, seen this couple of times in the book: its high time
What does Nietzsche mean by that?

>>8535745
>hur dur don't let ideas control you if they don't accord with some amorphous notion of "self"
pleb shit. There is nothing that indicates the "self" (a completely made-up notion) is the best source of morality. This is pathetically simple.

Don't get me wrong; this way of thinking that you describe may do wonders for some people with a strong intuition of "who they really are" (i.e. a strong sense of self). But most people don't have a strong sense of self and mistakenly believe that the "self" is there. So what ends up happening is a swirling cauldron of unconscious desires, unresolved conflicts, and just bad ideas in general flood reality under the guise of achieving one's innermost desires, when a person subject to such a process would benefit so much more from simply adopting that morality imposed on them by some higher man/woman (here we enter Nietzsche).

Morality is so much more stupidly complex than Stirner's conception of it that it's not even funny. I don't see how anyone could believe this for more than a day without realizing its flaws.

>>8506042

Nietzsche didn't really respect Hegel, although he certainly didn't disrespect him as much as Schopenhauer. When he does pass comment on Hegel, it's usually in the form of a back-handed compliment which, although Hegelians will invariably dispute to death, usually has some merit. For example:

>“Prussia, by subordinating all educational aspirations to state purposes, has succeeded in appropriating the one legacy of Hegelian philosophy that can be exploited in practice: its apotheosis of the state.”

>>8379441
Trump is the harbinger of the postmodern age.

>disregards objective truth
>sees all groups as necessarily in conflict with each other
>wields language as a weapon rather than as a representation of the world
>disregards logic, whether because it is superfluous or is an oppressive construct