/lit/ - Literature

Picrel is something I've been thinking about a lot recently
>several of Euripides' plays
A couple for a class and a couple just to see more of his work, they were very enjoyable and I find his more anthropomorphized depictions of the gods very intersting.
>The Etruscan Language: An Introduction by G. & L. Bonfante
I'm reading this for pleasure, I bought it years ago but am finally getting to reading ot. It's a very effective introduction to several Etruscan archeological pieces (mostly epigraphical and funerary, but some interesting pieces including the Zagreb mummy) with a focus on historical contextualization. About to get into the grammar section so very excited about that.
>Hackett's Hellenistic Philosophy sourcebook
I've been wanting to expand my view of ancient philosophy beyond the Presocratics, Platonism, and Seneca for a while now.
>Good thing
I think I'm kinda smart, not the smartest or anything like that but I've always had issues with thinking I'm a retard. It has only been recently with classes starting up again that I realized I needed to stop doubting myself so much. There is much to learn but I know I can do it, and I'm happy about that.
>Self improvement
I need to stop getting down on myself so much, I keep feeling like I'm fucking up but that mindset causes fear which stops me from acting. I've been passive too much in my life and now is the time I must learn to act.
>>22523914
What from Lucian are you planning on reading? Also
>>22524955
How's Polybius? I've mostly just read Herodotus, Thucydides, Livy, and Tacitus myself
>>22523905
How was the 120 Days? I've been meaning to read De Sade since I finished Lautreamont but haven't decided where to start

>>13560038
no, it's pretty close. he responded to blanks state memes of enlightenment.

>The will indeed came to be regarded as an act of thought, and to be identified with the judgment, especially by Descartes and Spinoza. According to this doctrine every man must become what he is only through his knowledge ; he must enter the world as a moral cipher come to know the things in it, and thereupon determine to be this or that, to act thus or thus, and may also through new knowledge achieve a new course of action, that is to say, become another person. Further, he must first know a thing to be good, and in consequence of this will it, instead of first willing it, and in consequence of this calling it good. According to my fundamental point of view, all this is a reversal of the true relation. Will is first and original ; knowledge is merely added to it as an instrument belonging to the phenomenon of will. Therefore every man is what he is through his will, and his character is original, for willing is the basis of his nature. Through the knowledge which is added to it he comes to know in the course of experience what he is, i.e., he learns his character. Thus he knows himself in consequence of and in accordance with the nature of his will, instead of willing in consequence of and in accordance with his knowing. According to the latter view, he would only require to consider how he would like best to be, and he would be it ; that is its doctrine of the freedom of the will. Thus it consists really in this, that a man is his own work guided by the light of knowledge. I, on the contrary, say that he is his own work before all knowledge, and knowledge is merely added to it to enlighten it. Therefore he cannot resolve to be this or that, nor can he become other than he is ; but he is once for all, and he knows in the course of experience what he is. According to their doctrine he wills what he knows, but i say: he knows what he wills.

from other passages it's clear that schopenhauer didnt deny value of self-improvement or changing attitudes with age, but he saw it always downstream from fundamental character which must be discovered and cannot be changed. probably he would feel vindicated by HBD research.

what if i told you "know thyself" is about observing real people and not spooks?

>>8612433
David killed himself when he unmasked his own fraud and Bret is still in the game.

If killing himself was an authentic act then it was his only authentic act.

Whatever is good, is whatever makes an individual come closer to "eudamonia" and whatever is bad is whatever makes an individual less likely to do so.

worked for me though

follow delphic maxim #8 brah
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delphic_maxims