/lit/ - Literature

>>22926244
"enlightenment" is not just some guy raising a flag victoriously over a battlefield. Self overcoming is the process of destroying your current self in order to become something more. This process involves facing fears and reality head on which inherently includes great risk, both from an internal perspective and an external. This goes all the way back to the fucking Iliad where even the ancient Greeks realized that for the heroes that rise above in war, there are countless who lie face down in the sand on the beaches.

Life is struggle, life is pain, life is suffering, and it is through the embracement of all of the above, one has the potential to overcome them all. This leads back to the question of what is more important in life which can be viewed as one of the main pillars, if not 'the' main pillar when it comes to ones outlook on life and politics i.e. how a society should be:
>Do you want safety?
>Or do you want greatness?

This two outlooks are diametrically apposed to one another. - War is hell, because war is life, and like life, one can create greatness and beauty through all of the horror.

>>22620672
I'll concede with the knowledge of good and bad/evil. But I would posit still that the true mark of courage is the striving for said good despite the bad. Which suggests that the lacking element in the debate that I think answers what courage is, is sacrifice. Voluntary sacrifice. Whether it be the sacrifice of ones time or resources, or the sacrifice of ones life for the good. I would then imply that in order to fulfill this requirement demands the mental/spiritual strengthening of oneself (and ones people if we're talking on a larger scale) in order to follow through with the good in order to reach the good.

That's just my take at least.

>>21481971
Junger is much worse, he places the experience of the brutality of battlefield condition as an end above himself and humanity that people and nations are instruments to be used for. Dugin is at least an intrumentralist for a human goal, his Euranism dreamland, Junger instrumenalises humanity for the sake of the ecstatic condition of war, pain, and brutality. His post-WW2 works are therapeutic strategies for defeat.

>>15583550
Storm of Steel, it's what he's most known for. If you're interested in his philosophy, On Pain is a quick read.

>>15557833
Short, but I have massive respect for Junger so it hit deeply.

>>13194012
Based and Jungerpilled.