/lit/ - Literature

>>8949221

>How can one embody universal values

>embody
>universal values

Please tell me what you mean by this before I answer.

>>8882763

>2016
>Anyone other than this guy

Nigh-chee.

>>8670694

>As an author he's a pretty entertaining read, but I feel like he tries too hard to be edgy and provocative and as a result comes off as almost nihilistically self-centered.

All good German thinkers are like this. See: Nietzsche

>>8659951

Although peoples' actions may be 'inevitable', they are 'inevitable' in different ways and at different times.

If we imagine the criminal to be a victim of circumstance, for example, then his actions were of course inevitable. If we change his circumstances, however, à la rehabilitation, then we can ensure (as much as possible) that his future inevitable actions are good and law-abiding.

At the very least, it makes the goodness and lawfulness of his future actions much more likely - which is undeniably better than mere punishment. If one were to retort that rehabilitation does not GUARANTEE the goodness and lawfulness of his future actions, I would entirely agree - but then the goodness and lawfulness of anybody's actions is not guaranteed. Merely likely or unlikely, given their circumstances.

>>8545482

>I don't consider nietzsche to be very important.

And that's why philosophy hasn't mattered since the 19th century, because you guys ignore the last meaningful philosopher to date.

True Cynicism, in the fashion of diogenes, is incredibly courageous. Do not mistake the modern phenomenon of saying "fuck you" to social conventions/norms/etc for what Cynicism is actually about. Read Diogenes and the other Cynics, like Crates/etc.

Above all though, Nietzsche's philosophy is incredibly alpha. One of the biggest memes of our time is the widespread belief that Nietzsche was some sort of freedom-loving individualist like those milquetoast Classical Liberals/etc. This could not be further from the truth. In fact, I don't think I could accurately sum it up in one post, and I don't particularly want to given that there are 100+ self-professed Nietzsche '''''experts'''''' on /lit/ at any one time.