/lit/ - Literature

Every book ever written except The Ego and Its Own

>>11343083
That sounds like regular utilitarianism.

>>11343087
You could call it a regulative concept of human interaction, if you want. It's not meant to be a deep insight, more a caution that if someone is telling you they're doing something "selflessly," they're probably trying to intentionally or unintentionally dupe you. Greek philosophers from Aristotle to Epictetus recognize this sort of selfishness in contradistinction to the narrow kind of selfishness which is better called arrogant materialism. Somewhere after the proliferation of Christianity it was lost, I guess.

>>11250012
Lifestylism is the metastasized cancer that will be the torturous death of modern anarchism. He transmutes empty social posturing into an anarchist necessity, exactly the sort of thing that lead to its commodification in the first place. Fuck this fat fuck

>>10670971
>Have you ever seen a spirit? “No, not I, but my grandmother.” Now, you see, it’s just so with me too; I myself haven’t seen any, but my grandmother had them running between her feet all sorts of ways, and out of confidence in our grandmothers’ honesty we believe in the existence of spirits.

>But had we no grandfathers then, and did they not shrug their shoulders every time our grandmothers told about their ghosts? Yes, those were unbelieving men who have harmed our good religion much, those rationalists! We shall feel that! What else lies at the bottom of this warm faith in ghosts, if not the faith in “the existence of spiritual beings in general,” and is not this latter itself disastrously unsettled if saucy men of the understanding may disturb the former? The Romanticists were quite conscious what a blow the very belief in God suffered by the laying aside of the belief in spirits or ghosts, and they tried to help us out of the baleful consequences not only by their reawakened fairy world, but at last, and especially, by the “intrusion of a higher world,” by their somnambulists of Prevorst, etc. The good believers and fathers of the church did not suspect that with the belief in ghosts the foundation of religion was withdrawn, and that since then it had been floating in the air. He who no longer believes in any ghost needs only to travel on consistently in his unbelief to see that there is no separate being at all concealed behind things, no ghost or — what is naively reckoned as synonymous even in our use of words — no “spirit.”

>>10330024
I'm being totally sincere.

"The man is distinguished from the youth by the fact that he takes the world as it is, instead of everywhere fancying it amiss and wanting to improve it, i.e. model it after his ideal; in him the view that one must deal with the world according to his interest, not according to his ideals, becomes confirmed."
-Maxy Staxy

>>10090812
>Stirner (too focused on the individual/not enough on the grand picture unless I am misunderstanding him)

You can't understand something you've never read.

>>10063873
This is what an intellectual catamite looks like

>>10014159

>tfw identify strongly with Raskolnikov

>>9807712
>prestige

Who is this guy? And what can you tell me about him?

>Christianity properly so called gathers us under a less utterly general concept: there we are “sons of God” and “led by the Spirit of God.” Yet not all can boast of being God’s sons, but “the same Spirit which witnesses to our spirit that we are sons of God reveals also who are the sons of the devil.” Consequently, to be a son of God one must not be a son of the devil; the sonship of God excluded certain men. To be sons of men — i. e., men — on the contrary, we need nothing but to belong to the human species, need only to be specimens of the same species. What I am as this I is no concern of yours as a good liberal, but is my private affair alone; enough that we are both sons of one and the same mother, to wit, the human species: as “a son of man” I am your equal.

>What am I now to you? Perhaps this bodily I as I walk and stand? Anything but that. This bodily I, with its thoughts, decisions, and passions, is in your eyes a “private affair” which is no concern of yours: it is an “affair by itself.” As an “affair for you” there exists only my concept, my generic concept, only the Man, who, as he is called Tom, could just as well be Joe or Dick. You see in me not me, the bodily man, but an unreal thing, the spook, i.e. a Man.

t. spooky guy

>>9508382
Maybe you'll be less haunted after the arteries in your brain burst like a frayed expandable garden hose.

>>9493574
Doubly spooked by the idea of adulthood and the idea of just ownership

>the point

>>9366862

>>9365140

Do I need to read anything before going into Stirner?

Like Hegel or something?

>>9347408
>I must do one or the other
False dichotomies abound in your haunted head my friend

>>9338472
>but everyone is getting richer in the process

>>9332437
Feels good man.

>>9327241
>>9327248
The thought of being this fucking spooked grosses me out

Actually, now that some time has passed, I think it's funny

>>22374

Why are you still an involuntary egoist?