/lit/ - Literature

>>19663984
how could a dumb, inbred little arab ever have anything to say of relevance to an anglo mastermind literal LORD. it is an insult to put these two in the same picture or sentence together.

I'm new to Philosophy, should I start with the textbooks? is it worth it to read a lengthy textbook on metaphysics compared to reading the sources?

why does this board hate Anglos so much?

what is the essential literature to become an Anglo bugman materialistic atheist?

what is the essential /lit/ to become an Anglo bugman materialist?

>>15315642
the argument he disposes of means that f.e. if you're an inheritor of a huge fortune (like Russell (pbuh) was) and you're still working as a lecturer (like Russell (pbuh) did) then you're stealing the job from less privileged members of society (as you could potentially live off just your inheritance money and as such don't need a job) who could use this job as a leverage to ascend into the upper middle class. Russell (pbuh) refutes this retarded argument by noticing that if it were true then everyone could just be idling permanently, in reality an inheritor who decides to remain a labourer contributes to the welfare of society and therefore cannot be regarded as a leech who steals other people's bread. you can't comprehend this argument because your mind has been turned inside out by c*ntinental philosophers, you should undertake an analytic rehab, read Russell (pbuh), Mill (pbuh), Quine (pbuh) and Kripke (pbuh), ditch c*ntinentalism and embrace Anglo wisdom

>It is obvious that in his day-dreams he is a warrior, not a professor; all of the men he admires were military. His opinion of women, like every man's, is an objectification of his own emotion towards them, which is obviously one of fear. "Forget not thy whip"-- but nine women out of ten would get the whip away from him, and he knew it, so he kept away from women, and soothed his wounded vanity with unkind remarks. [...] [H]e is so full of fear and hatred that spontaneous love of mankind seems to him impossible. He has never conceived of the man who, with all the fearlessness and stubborn pride of the superman, nevertheless does not inflict pain because he has no wish to do so. Does any one suppose that Lincoln acted as he did from fear of hell? Yet to Nietzsche, Lincoln is abject, Napoleon magnificent. [...] I dislike Nietzsche because he likes the contemplation of pain, because he erects conceit into duty, because the men whom he most admires are conquerors, whose glory is cleverness in causing men to die. But I think the ultimate argument against his philosophy, as against any unpleasant but internally self-conscious ethic, lies not in an appeal to facts, but in an appeal to the emotions. Nietzsche despises universal love; I feel it the motive power to all that I desire as regards the world. His followers have had their innings, but we may hope that it is coming rapidly to an end.

Neetch permanently and eternally BTFO by Bertrand Russell (pbuh)

>Russell was a brainle-
"Russell won a scholarship to read for the Mathematical Tripos at Trinity College, Cambridge, and commenced his studies there in 1890, taking as coach Robert Rumsey Webb.[...]. He quickly distinguished himself in mathematics and philosophy, graduating as seventh Wrangler in the former in 1893 and becoming a Fellow in the latter in 1895."
>Russell was an irreligious bugma-
"At the age of 29, in February 1901, Russell underwent what he called a "sort of mystic illumination", after witnessing Whitehead's wife's acute suffering in an angina attack. "I found myself filled with semi-mystical feelings about beauty ... and with a desire almost as profound as that of the Buddha to find some philosophy which should make human life endurable", Russell would later recall. "At the end of those five minutes, I had become a completely different person.""
>Russell's writings had no influence on philoso-
"Russell is generally credited with being one of the founders of analytic philosophy.[...]He was particularly prolific in the fields of metaphysics, logic and the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of language, ethics and epistemology."
>Russell is midwit's favorite philosophe-
Albert Einstein's often-quoted aphorism that "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds" is from his open letter in support of Russell"

>Russell was a brainle-
"Russell won a scholarship to read for the Mathematical Tripos at Trinity College, Cambridge, and commenced his studies there in 1890, taking as coach Robert Rumsey Webb.[...]. He quickly distinguished himself in mathematics and philosophy, graduating as seventh Wrangler in the former in 1893 and becoming a Fellow in the latter in 1895."
>Russell was an irreligious bugma-
"At the age of 29, in February 1901, Russell underwent what he called a "sort of mystic illumination", after witnessing Whitehead's wife's acute suffering in an angina attack. "I found myself filled with semi-mystical feelings about beauty ... and with a desire almost as profound as that of the Buddha to find some philosophy which should make human life endurable", Russell would later recall. "At the end of those five minutes, I had become a completely different person.""
>Russell's writings had no influence on philoso-
"Russell is generally credited with being one of the founders of analytic philosophy.[...]He was particularly prolific in the fields of metaphysics, logic and the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of language, ethics and epistemology."
>Russell is midwit's favorite philosophe-
Albert Einstein's often-quoted aphorism that "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds" is from his open letter in support of Russell"