/lit/ - Literature

Just advise me a good book for the next few days.

Still searching for a novel I read in highschool more than a decade ago.

MC is a man in a dying tribe who are one of many different sentient species who hunt each other to eat. I think meat is their only food source. He ends up on a journey of course and encounters many hostile races. Its post apocalyptic sort of setting with dilapidated cities.

I remember a satellite crashing, a journey on a river of carnivorous aquatic folk, a skeleton-esque race with maybe four arms that they eat and tastes "sweet". I believe the ending is the MC saving his love interest by sending her off world in an escape pod and it turns out the whole thing is either a reality show or how the various races of the universe settle disputes/wars.

It's not Acts of Caine as I've read that as well.

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>Spengler
This man has it right, Spengler was a genius. Even if you don't agree with his theses, his pivotal work (Decline of the West) is a masterwork of historical philosophy. It's compelling, well-researched, provocative and utterly unique.

>>7968588
He won last year? That's literally the lowest point an award can fall into. Shiiet

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>>5941989

Well she mentions 'rules' in her second paragraph -- which suggests that she's talking about formal logic insofar it catalogs various fallacies, at least. This post was probably prompted by similarly self-aggrandizing people accusing her of 'ad hominems' or 'appeals to emotion' or whatever.

Even then though how hard of a distinction is it between 'rational thinking' and 'logic'? To my understanding logic is just the formalization of rational thinking -- a culture's writings on logic would exemplify the way they think thinking should look like, in the most abstract, generalized way possible. My point was that there's a lot of consillience, a lot of agreement between different culture's writing on logic, and that this would suggest that there's a lot of agreement, generally, across cultures as to what thinking should look like.

Of course we can say that these texts are only what cloistered off academics think thinking should look like, and that they don't account for, shall we say, 'folk' ways of thought, like tradition or custom or whatever -- and maybe this act of excluding certain ways of thinking is what she was getting at in the first place, logic was just the example she chose to illustrate her point -- I don't know -- I have to shit really really badly, so I'll just have to leave this hanging in the air and let you guys talk about Foucault and stuff

(I'm not trying to avatarfag by the way I just think these pictures are cool and that maybe you guys'd like to save them)