/lit/ - Literature

>who is your favorite thinker and why is it Yang Zhu?
Because he's Stirner + rice

>no yangchu itt

youre missing the best one lads

>>8937005
read as many translations and studies as you can find.

>>8089998
Worst bait I've seen all day

>>7477578
Include the Titles senpai, makes it easier for people to know the subject

>>7473509
This. Read Yung Chu's (Yang Zhu's) Garden of Pleasure, OP.

The one which is the most pleasurable to read

>vital principal
Sounds pretty spooky

Why haven't you read Yang Zhu (aka Yung Chu) aka The Spookbuster of the East?

>Life is full of suffering, and its chief purpose is pleasure. There is no god and no after-life; men are the helpless puppets of the blind natural forces that made them, and that gave them their unchosen ancestry and their inalienable character. The wise man will accept this fate without complaint, but will not be fooled by all the nonsense of Confucius and Mozi about inherent virtue, universal love, and a good name: morality is a deception practised upon the simple by the clever; universal love, and a good name: morality is a deception practised upon the simple by the clever; universal love is the delusion of children, who do not know the universal enmity that forms the law of life; and a good name is a posthumous bauble which the fools who paid so dearly for it cannot enjoy. In life the good suffer like the bad, and the wicked seem to enjoy themselves more keenly than the good