/lit/ - Literature

>>16088175
What part of "poor studies using self reported sampling and attempting to denote every death as the result of smoking arrive at such ludacris figures" don't you understand?

>>15521049
I smoke the pipe all day long except when I'm eating or drinking.

Ignore mass reply posters.

I say old chap, just *stamps pipe*, stop being concerned with anything and take a seat over there. We can figure this blasted thing out, by taking the thing apart. Now, let me see that book. OH, dear me, that's MY book. Why then, of course it's, as you say, for someone "at least equally interested in the history of philosophy as the actual philosophical thought---and let me finish your sentence----'itself'.
I met Lenin in 1920 when I was in Russia, I had an hours talk with him. His english was quite good. I was less impressed by Lenin than I expected to be. I saw one other thing about him, and he said this, "You see, there are poor peasants and rich peasants. And we stirred up the poor peasants against the rich peasants, and they soon hanged them to the nearest tree, oh ho ho ho!". I didn't much like that
Now another thing. *relights pipe* *licks lip repeatedly like a cat when it stops eating* The white population of the world will soon cease to increase. The Asiatic races will be longer, and the negroes still longer, before their birth rate falls sufficiently to make their numbers stable without help of war and pestilence.... Until that happens, the benefits aimed at by socialism can only be partially realized, and the less prolific races will have to defend themselves against the more prolific by methods which are disgusting even if they are necessary.
I'll say one last thing. Religion, since it has its source in terror, has dignified certain kinds of fear and made people think them not disgraceful. In this it has done mankind a great disservice: all fear is bad. I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive. I am not young and I love life. But I should scorn to shiver with terror at the thought of annihilation. Happiness is nonetheless true happiness because it must come to an end, nor do thought and love lose their value because they are not everlasting. Many a man has borne himself proudly on the scaffold; surely the same pride should teach us to think truly about man's place in the world. Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cosy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigour, and the great spaces have a splendour of their own.
Now, there you old boy, go get yourself a pipe, and smoke it. *takes another puff* Now, did I ever tell you about the one time smoking in fact, SAVED MY LIFE?

Nonsense my boy! *Lights pipe*
You've read all that you needed to. There's no sense in reading anything else, for you see, I endeavored to explain philosophy and I did just that. Everything that came after me, now that's just Rubbish! Franco-Nonsense. Hooey!
Do yourself a favor, get yourself a nice wad of tobacco, put it in your pipe and call it a day. I bid you a good morning, good bye sir.

I say old chap, just *stamps pipe*, stop being concerned with anything and take a seat over there. We can figure this blasted thing out, by taking the thing apart. Now, let me see that book. OH, dear me, that's MY book. Why then, of course it's, as you say, for someone "at least equally interested in the history of philosophy as the actual philosophical thought---and let me finish your sentence----'itself'.
I met Lenin in 1920 when I was in Russia, I had an hours talk with him. His english was quite good. I was less impressed by Lenin than I expected to be. I saw one other thing about him, and he said this, "You see, there are poor peasants and rich peasants. And we stirred up the poor peasants against the rich peasants, and they soon hanged them to the nearest tree, oh ho ho ho!". I didn't much like that
Now another thing. *relights pipe* *licks lip repeatedly like a cat when it stops eating* The white population of the world will soon cease to increase. The Asiatic races will be longer, and the negroes still longer, before their birth rate falls sufficiently to make their numbers stable without help of war and pestilence.... Until that happens, the benefits aimed at by socialism can only be partially realized, and the less prolific races will have to defend themselves against the more prolific by methods which are disgusting even if they are necessary.
I'll say one last thing. Religion, since it has its source in terror, has dignified certain kinds of fear and made people think them not disgraceful. In this it has done mankind a great disservice: all fear is bad. I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive. I am not young and I love life. But I should scorn to shiver with terror at the thought of annihilation. Happiness is nonetheless true happiness because it must come to an end, nor do thought and love lose their value because they are not everlasting. Many a man has borne himself proudly on the scaffold; surely the same pride should teach us to think truly about man's place in the world. Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cosy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigour, and the great spaces have a splendour of their own.
Now, there you old boy, go get yourself a pipe, and smoke it. *takes another puff* Now, did I ever tell you about the one time smoking in fact, SAVED MY LIFE?

>>8305036

Aristotle's metaphysics is definitely the hardest on the list of 5 that I gave, but it is pretty much essential to philosophy. Spinoza's Ethics is a general "core" work of philosophy, but it is not important enough to recommend it to a beginner. IMO anyways (and Russell isn't on the list because he isn't essential reading, but I do highly recommend anyone interested in philosophy -beginner or expert- to read that work in particular).

Is it harder than Spinoza's Ethics though? I don't think so. It is harder to read simply because it is very dry, but it isn't loaded with pages of axioms and corollaries and such that require you to go back and look at the reference and create this network in your mind of the argument he is making. That, I would imagine, would be more difficult for someone starting out in the subject than Aristotle's dry writing style.

positivism vs dialectics go

>"All the same," Nietzsche replies, "your world would be insipid. You should study Heraclitus, whose works survive complete in the celestial library. Your love is compassion, which is elicited by pain; your truth, if you are honest, is unpleasant, and only to be known through suffering; and as to beauty, what is more beautiful than the tiger, who owes his splendour to his fierceness? No, if the Lord should decide for your world, I fear we would all die of boredom." "You might," Buddha replies, "because you love pain, and your love of life is a sham. But those who really love life would be happy as no one can be happy in the world as it is."

>For my part, I agree with Buddha as I have imagined him. But I do not know how to prove that he is right by any argument such as can be used in a mathematical or a scientific question. I dislike him Nietzsche because he likes the contemplation of pain, because he erects conceit into a 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-consistent ethic, lies not in an appeal to facts, but in an appeal to 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. - Bertrand Russell

neechu btfo

>>6923682

Whatever Bert 'coolest grandpa ever' Russell says

>>6044139
Your second sentence does not follow from the first. You have committed an error in reasoning, your opinion has been discarded.

>>6008847
>logical atomism
>words refer to words

>>5964915
With another man.

>>5955461
>continental philosopher defining the terms he uses
Good luck with that one.

>>5322639
Lol, Nietzsche.

>studying the retarded shit Hegel spawned