/lit/ - Literature

>read the Greeks for two years
>can feel my critical thinking and analytical skills grow significantly
>read Descartes for twenty minutes
>it’s like a switch flipped in me and I realize that the only logical conclusion that can result from serious reflection on the self and existence is that there is a transcendental soul
So is this what all the fuss is about when people tell you to read philosophy?

I think I've already pretty much conquered the rational mind but am still hindered by problems that require emotional solutions

Any books you guys have read that helps me understand more the emotional mind?

(inb4 books wont help you conquer the emotional mind)
Yes Nigga I know, Im looking for practical books

>reading Lazzarato's Making of the Indebted Man
>read a particular relevant paragraph in Anti-Oedipus, cited by the above; both refer to the Genealogy of Morals and the importance of the debtor-creditor relationship and how it is necessary to breed an "unnatural" man who has a moral imagination, or "memory" of the FUTURE: of future expectations of repayment, of fulfilling promise, etc
>understand it

It is happening, friends. I am Slightly Catching On. I am engaging with the text by comparing it to other related texts. Soon I will read select Freud, Nietzsche, Marx, and Smith. And then I will be ready for the meme.

>>8880640
>he doesn't know that /pol/ is always right
Go back to your containment sites, nu-anon