/lit/ - Literature

> A few rungs down. One level of education, itself a very high one, has been reached when man gets beyond superstitious and religious concepts and fears and, for example, no longer believes in the heavenly angels or original sin, and has stopped talking about the soul's salvation. Once he is at this level of liberation, he must still make a last intense effort to overcome metaphysics. Then, however, a retrograde movement is necessary: he must understand both the historical and the psychological justification in metaphysical ideas. He must recognize how mankind's greatest advancement came from them and how, if one did not take this retrograde step, one would rob himself of mankind's finest accomplishments to date. With regard to philosophical metaphysics, I now see a number of people who have arrived at the negative goal (that all positive metaphysics is an error), but only a few who climb back down a few rungs. For one should look out over the last rung of the lad-der, but not want to stand on it. Those who are most enlightened can go only as far as to free themselves of metaphysics and look back on it with superiority, while here, as in the hippodrome, it is necessary to take a turn at the end of the track.

>he fell for the studying literature at University is a meme meme

What books will help me to stop caring about
>Muh nation
>Muh people
And help me to get obsessed with making money/investing/learning a valuable skill

>>18695312

>>18695540

Alfred Whitehead? Retroactively refuted by Parmenides and René Guénon. He simply couldn’t contend with the Eleatic doctrine. It’s a shame really

>>18196342
German schizo anon, welcome to our little society. Please leave your hat and coat by the door. Would you like some tea? Or perhaps something a little... harder? ;-)

You dont need to.

Systemic racism is real, and it's based. Instead of trying to make white people into victims why don't you own up to your history and realize it was based as fuck.

I'm a nationalist who believes are white people are racist.

the hard problem was independentally solved by bergson (pbuh) and chris langan
watch this yt series too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OANm6DtFc8&list=PLddMtGCRIuvDCetfcgPQp4w3ifHSMX-ST
>>17854439
>to simulate what it feels like
??? how does this answer fucking anything. even if you simulate it on a computer, it doesn't mean YOU know what it feels like unless you experience it which would mean retoolment

>>17745662
i just solved the meta-problem of consciousness. not going to share the solution cause i believe i actually hit at something vital. i will give you a hint: meditate on eliminative materialism's ramifications for different disciplines

>>16431715
I'd rather be a forgotten man than a remembered woman.

>losing an argument on 4chan
>leave the thread and never return to it
>never even look at the thread in the archives to see if anyone else picked it up to continue the argument or anything
>make the same exact argument in another thread some other day

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I’ve grown up of all boards except maybe /g/ (my jobu) and /jp/ (my hobbies). My still I visit /lit/ almost every day it is comfy.
>waaah why so many zoomers
Because it is summer. I have a circle of litards at goodreads - they all 25+

Try to talk me out of solipsism.

>>14057577
100/100 all in there source language I guess you can call me "BASADO"

>>12200982
If depression is "chemical imbalances" could you please outline precisely, with numbers, how is a "chemically balanced brain" and by how much and which chemical a depressed brain differs?
Depressionfags will never ever answer this

>>11757959
Imagine actually reading chess books instead of just using your intellectual capabilities to determine the best possible move at the spot no matter what the opponent plays. Stop memorizing and start playing, brainlet.