/lit/ - Literature

So Hegel says that we have to test our ideas against the external in order to purify

but Stirner comes along and says that you should let your internal drives lead you

whose argument is more compelling?

where do you think you are?

>you will never get to see DFWs writing progression as he got older
>Faulkner didn't write a sea epic
>Milton wasted his talent on Christian fanfiction
>Nabokov didn't write a SOL about schoolgirls
>Mishima didn't write books into the 90s getting to see Japan reach its height
>Foucault didn't life long enough to make a conservative turn around
>Kafka didn't live to see the Holocaust to write the ultimate horror story about

What could have beens would you have most liked to have seen?

>>7218098
Go to uni. Seriously, learning philosophy is 100% easier/meaningful when practiced socially. Otherwise it's sort of bland and uninspiring.

If you're adamant about learning on your own, just take notes while reading. Deconstruct passages even if you're incorrect at first. Review your perspectives. Re-read and analyze. Remember to reach some sort of conclusion from what you read.

The greatest introductory sentence in literature is: