/lit/ - Literature

>>14325522
agreed
I don't want any more competition tbqh

>>14273396
Kant was right about a lot of things
His justification for the categorical imperative isn't great though. It pretty much just assumes the conclusion.
That carries over into pretty much every philosopher of ethics, the entire field is a joke. It makes (sometimes retarded, as in Utilitarianism) assumptions and takes them as axiomatic, these are never justified.
Kant's a little better since he tries his general universalization technique to reach a "universal moral principle" that must be shared, which he finds to be 'good will', he tries to tie this into his general categories but it kinda falls flat in actually tying ethics to pure reason. It has to assume that "well people will generally agree with these things so it's universal, and because it must be universalizeable it must be binding", it's kinda weak.
Not saying it's impossible to derive ethics from pure reason, just that Kant's argument wasn't particularly convincing for me.
Beyond that there's only naturalistic ethics to contend with, which Hume BTFO so hard that it's a fucking tragedy that anyone is still pushing it. Completely irrelevant, fucking Anglos still haven't figured it out though.

Not to say you can't act "ethically" without a god, just that it is not at all clear you can derive Ethics from pure reason and you certainly can't derive it from Empirical information. So there's no real grounding for it, leaving ethics as a sociohistorical construct, which seems to me to be the most reasonable place to keep it. Doesn't mean we have to get rid of it though.

>>14241964
>Hume is a blank slate constructivist
That's a fucking bizarre way to read Hume lmao
>Philosophers havent supposed such as "human nature"
What? Pretty much every philosopher deals with "human nature" in some form or another.
Kant assumes the existence of universal categories of thought intrinsic to humanity (or at least a "rational subject"), this carries over to Hegel and (most) of the other German Idealists. Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, and related place humanity within a naturalistic context that implies certain intrinsic traits. Psychoanalysts do something similar.
what the fuck are you smoking?
>>14242274
>intellectual heroes
>an eceleb
this better be bait.

>delighted

Former burnout who is 'successful' now here
the ride doesn't end
it doesn't get better with money, or location or prestige or whatever
you just end up miserable with nice things around.
there is only one exit

>>12873485
>13
>still have no friends
why am I like this?

>>12780039
wait, so her hot take is that the right is full of sociopaths and autists? She wrote a whole book on this premise?
into the trash it goes

>"You're late," scowled the short, angry woman toward a young man significantly taller than her.
The young man's name was Andrew Rannock, a shy, intelligent, but very unhappy man in his mid-20s. The short, angry woman was Rhonda Hernandez, the manager of the deli department at Rasnor's #7, and unfortunately Andrew's direct supervisor.

>>10504466
>I was too depressed to read.
This is the real answer. You can read a lot of depressing shit just before the wave hits when you're feeling horrible yet marginally focused still but when that wave hits for real there's no motivation to read anymore. You just sort of float about in a catatonic state.

last bump before sleep

>>10217071
>implying /lit/ards dint do this for recent purchase threads

But how could I even respond to you with a coherent thought unless we both could intuit some semblance of meaning in our common language?

>>9672924

I felt bad for him when he lost his Dad and he was trying to work shit out in his life.

But he's turning into a yuppie dipshit more and more with each passing day.

>>9358892
>>9358906
>>9358946
>>9358962
>tfw no dominant, egoistic, high-test gf with whom to begin a union of egoists and who would bear me strong sons

>female friend asks me why I don't try to get laid
>Say that physical pleasure is a temporary distraction on the road towards long-term contentment, and for that reason, casual sex is harmful if not degenerate
>Explain that relationships in general exist to alleviate the anxiety of existence, but often lead us to become comfortable with who we are and lose sight of who we should be. Romantic relationships exist solely for pleasure and mutual self affirmation, and they are for this reason harmful if not degenerate.
>To make sure my argument is air tight, I remind her that 1) sex can lead to reproduction and 2) to have a child is to kill a person several decades in the future. For these additional reasons, sex is potentially harmful, selfish, and degenerate.
>"Omg are you serious, you read too much"
>"Haha yeah"
Fuck women.

>mfw I want to stop being a pessimist and an anti-natalist but I can't

>>9033249
Speak for yourself, faggot. I'd give my life defending this country and our constitution. It's only the liberals who lambaste our sacred constitution.

>"Yeah. Yeah. Yeah" was all he had to his name. A stillborn legacy barely out of the womb. A dwindling fame that culminated in one monumentally stilted phrase, his last known utterance that reached unforgiving ears: "Happy Easter, Xbox." single handedly marked The Fall of The House of Usher.


Bravisimo.