/lit/ - Literature

Was this guy a fucking moron or what

Hello /lit/erati,

I have some questions:

1. Have you read The Ego and its Own by Max Stirner?
2. If so, did he convince you to agree with his philosophy?
3. If not, what arguments do you hold against him?

I'm asking this because in my experience Stirners philosophy is the hardest one to refute of anything that I've seen until now. I can see why one does not wish to agree with I'm, but I'm very curious about how one does this in a rational way.

The only way to do so would be to deny the ego as just another 'spook', but even if one does so it doesn't imply any moral considerations. So you would still be free to do as you please, just as you are according to Stirner. And even this argument may be flawed, since Stirner doesn't seem to suggest that the self is an actual, unchanging entity. He might just be the philosopher that killed Nietzsche, even before Nietzsche was born.

>>8644694
>evil

What was Stirners history with Marx? What arguments did they have?

I can't find much info on this but I remember stuff mentioned about this

What's stopping you from finishing that book you've always wanted to read /lit/?

Why do you read /lit/?

I know, and have gained the force for it by culture, that I need not let myself be coerced by any of my appetites, pleasures, emotions, etc.; I am their – master
[...]
I receive with thanks what the centuries of culture have acquired for me; I am not willing to throw away and give up anything of it: I have not lived in vain.

Red pill me on Max Stirner /lit/.
What is a spook?
What is the core of his philosophy?
What was it Marx hated so much about him?
Where do I start with reading his work?

>>7955951

Thinking of getting this on my forearm

This is a trivial thought but I want an answer. Why should I care about almost everything when, at the core, almost everything wants to take from me in order to benefit itself?

>Zizek ranting about late capeetalism

He makes relative shitloads from his books, talks, movies, articles, infinitely repeating himself, not being rigorous a lot of the time. He's a great entertainer disguised who passes as a philosopher most of the time (not to comment on his actual philosophising). He does this all for the sweet sweet money.

I only say Zizek because he says he's communist.

>lit
>tells people to start with the greeks
>tells people that not reading fictoin makes you a dumb stupidhead

lit, who all want to be writers for narcissistic reasons, mostly audience pussy and attention seeking reasons. Who want people to see the greeks as the cool stuff just so that lit itself can seem the most knowledgable on the "msot important topics".

I could go fucking on. It's all so trivial. At the core of everything is someone trying to take from me to give to themself. It's all so sickeningly trivial

Is Stirner just a meme or does he have an actual credible philosophy?

I'm trying to find an ideology that justifies my hedonistic tendencies.

I'll just drop this here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvsoVgc5rGs

What is Stirner's influence on philosophy exactly? Nobody important seems to quote or even mention him in their works. Even Nietzsche, who integrated a lot of Stirner's ideas into his philosophy refused to even acknowledge his existence. Why?

is time a spook?

(sniff) (tug shirt) let me be perfectly abshurd... (sniff) we have to examine these categorical imperatives