/lit/ - Literature

>>15039104
Islam has no love, so it's people will always be in turmoil and confusion.

>>10267373
>Stoicism is a practical philosophy
so is marxism and hedonism and stirnerism, yet all are garbage because they never approach what is truly essential, meaningful and transcended in life. So they have no grounding, they merely offer momentary, bodily and psychological "utility" allowing the individual to rationalize his sins and sin in comfort.

>Regardless, anyone who is serious about practicing Stoicism will eventually encounter Theravada Buddhism and realize that it's very similar but superior in every way.

only because theravada buddhism actually has a decent metaphysic to it...yet it isn't much better or truthful either, again it focuses on "pragmatism" and appeasing the individual, teaching him how to be comfortable with his environment and choices....blah

I read the moderns, and didn't get much out of them except reinforcing my dumb atheist materialism hedonism and relativism. Which I already knew by osmosis since I lived in a shitlib post-modern world.

Reading the greeks actually challenged my worldview and made me think. Reading the greeks eventually led me to the early patristics, christian saints and martyrs and that really blew my mind.

It doesn't matter where you start as long as you get a "full picture" of what is at stake. You need to learn the errors/problems/delusions humans suffer them so you should read the Moderns because they espouse those errors as truths.

Then you need to read the solutions, so you gotta go back to tradition, the greeks, the medieval philosophers and saints.