/lit/ - Literature

>>6705062
Don't call your mother that, bitch.
Stirner in a nutshell?
If she's conservative; frame it in a sort of self determination sense.
Bump or other anons.

>>6306532

You need to temper your egoism some.
You should put some happiness in your life.
I don't care if it's a spook. It's one to live with. Don't let your emotions push you around, instead direct your emotional state. Be kind to your friends and future friends

I don't know why spooks is what people take from Stirner. I thought the idea of wheels in the head was much more fun.

>>5123039
As I see it it's an sort of an extension of Epicureanism. In the Do what you want/only consider real things, sense. It's not about not caring about anything but disregarding things that are phony, hence the Holden Caulfield-Stiner pic.
"Seems kind of pointless to me" Just because there's no reason for life, doesn't mean there's no point in living a good life. You live for yourself, but since you live with al these others ("Hell" to some philosophical strain) you should try to find a way to make peace with that...

>>5043940
You are weak willed, and have more growth ahead of you. Cast aside cranky old men

>>4964449
Then by all means do it. It's a simply a question of whether you do it for Duty or Right vs. consciously doing it purely because it makes you happy like any other pleasure.

>>4964456
Indeed, no. Stirner doesn't grade spook quality; a major point in his argument is that believing in Right is similar to believing God or ghosts.

>>4862961