/lit/ - Literature

>>8781116
I took 2.5 semesters of German in high school as well as 1 semester of College German that tought me everything up to the Dativ case. Not in college anymore so courses aren't an option.

Probably going to close the thread now that I got some good answers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWNMtcVxa10

>>8687710
k, i will. qq: protestant reformation; is this symbolic for him of separation of christianity from the pope?

>>8488585
>You desire to LIVE "according to Nature"? Oh, you noble Stoics, what fraud of words! Imagine to yourselves a being like Nature, boundlessly extravagant, boundlessly indifferent, without purpose or consideration, without pity or justice, at once fruitful and barren and uncertain: imagine to yourselves INDIFFERENCE as a power--how COULD you live in accordance with such indifference?
>To live--is not that just endeavoring to be otherwise than this Nature? Is not living valuing, preferring, being unjust, being limited, endeavouring to be different? And granted that your imperative, "living according to Nature," means actually the same as "living according to life"--how could you do DIFFERENTLY? Why should you make a principle out of what you yourselves are, and must be? In reality, however, it is quite otherwise with you: while you pretend to read with rapture the canon of your law in Nature, you want something quite the contrary, you extraordinary stage-players and self-deluders!

They cannot possibly recover.

>>8447339
>"I do not presuppose myself, because I am every moment just positing or creating myself, and am I only by being not presupposed but posited, and ... only in the moment when I posit myself; that is, I am creator and creature in one. "

>"He who is infatuated with Man leaves persons out of account so far as that infatuation extends, and floats in an ideal, sacred interest. Man, you see, is not a person, but an ideal, a spook. "

>>8445255
>write book
>wife reads it
>goes all "AM I ONLY A SPOOK TO YOU, MAX?"
>answer with "NO, SWEETHEART! THIS IS A PURE UNION OF EGOISTS!"
>wife furious about being called an egoist, doesn't let me explain
>gets divorce

>>7948370
>in order to get the most out of the foundation for all western civilization/highly technical philosophy/authors known as higher order semioticians you need to work hard
>implying this is a bad thing

If reading Hegel was pleasant it wouldn't be nearly as satisfying.

>>7951932
This is a perfect example for why getting every single allusion is irrelevant.

You got scared out of reading something suitable for fourteen year old boys because you hadn't brushed up on your Ovid.

>>7951958
Unless you have some revolutionary theory of knowledge that doesn't rely on empirical sense data and isn't anamnesis that's pretty much how all literature, language and communication works.

There is no such thing as a self-contained style.

>>7813083
>where did the idea of God come from?

What do you mean by God?

If you mean a first cause then that arises from the relation of ideas inherent in the idea of causality itself (if nothing happens without a cause then where did the chain begin?)

If you mean the Abrahamic God then the idea of that is born out of its very definition (omnipotent, omniscient, omnibenevolent) and is cognized by "perfecting" these attributes (power, knowledge, goodness) from your perspective.

If you want to attempt actual metaphysics/theology with a Humean system (that is, attempt an attainment of first principles via empirical data) you'll just end up at the same brick wall as the man himself, namely, that if all of our knowledge is finite by virtue of all of our experiences/our lifespans/our minds being finite, then we can never have access to knowledge beyond the contingent.

This is why, at the end of the day, Hume would go down to the pub and drink wine and play backgammon. Because, in a true Humean system, skepticism and all, empirical hedonism is the only logical answer.

Luckily Kant btfo Hume so thoroughly this isn't a problem

Yeah let's talk about Anthropology and Stirner OP.

>>7790591
The problem doesn't lie with Derrida or with Deconstructionism, but rather with the odious misrepresentations and misuse of his thought and works.

That's not to say that I'm asserting some kind of definitive interpretation of his oeuvre, just that Deconstructionism, by virtue of dealing explicitly with semiotics and meaning from a phenomenological perspective, usually lends itself to the worst kind of sophistry that rebuffs any criticism with appeals to subjectivity and an epistemological nihilism born of a largely secular academia bereft of any sort of foundation (be it ethical or ontological).

tl;dr Derrida isn't a hack, many of his disciples are

>>7546811
>tfw you will never go to Berlin to translate works of continental philosophy

>implying a "patrician" drug will enlighten a pleb
>implying a "pleb" drug will diminish a patrician

The spooks in this thread are spooky beyond belief

>>7494697
>implying most contemporary philosophers are atheists
>implying there has ever been a relevant atheist philosopher

>>7447604

>>7443592
that's pure spooks

I will continue to enjoy my property, your thin veil of intellectualism included

>>7431160
All ideologies are false ideas, driving forces with a foundational nature that we have been conditioned to take as fact.

Ideology is dangerous because it is immoral, illogical and easily manipulable;it's able to drive an intelligent person laughing all the way to the choir invisible.

That being said, we can never escape ideology so the best we can do is recognize our prison sentence and be aware of what is driving us to do what we do.

Always question your foundation, always recognize the mechanistic nature of being, always nihilate your perceived objective self.

>>7391375
>-ism

Are?

>>7339372
It doesn't

The most we can do is become aware of our inherently spook-laden "reality" and dance the tarantella until we die

Hope is pain my friend

>>7299738
>implying nihilism isn't an ideology

It's spooks all the way down anon

>>7229615
Instead of going to class I smoked weed and read Lovecraft in the park as the autumn leaves rustle all around me

Damn my ego knows how to have a comfy/spooky time