/lit/ - Literature

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Judge the books

"You will win but you will not convince. You will win because you have more than enough brute force; but you will not convince because to convince means to persuade. And to persuade you need something which you lack: right and reason."

Miguel de Unamuno

Who's the most underrated philosopher in your opinion?

IMO Unamuno was the greatest Christian Existentialist save for Kierkegaard.

>And concerning that abject and ignoble saying, "If there were not a God it would be necessary to invent Him," we shall say nothing. It is the expression of the unclean scepticism of those conservatives who look upon religion merely as a means of government and whose interest it is that in the other life there shall be a hell for those who oppose their worldly interests in this life. This repugnant and Sadducean phrase is worthy of the time-serving sceptic to whom it is attributed.
>No, with all this the deep vital sense has nothing to do. It has nothing to do with a transcendental police regimen, or with securing order—and what an order!—upon earth by means of promises and threats of eternal rewards and punishments after death. All this belongs to a lower plane—that is to say, it is merely politics, or if you like, ethics. The vital sense has to do with living.

Do you agree with this? Do you think (primarily boomers both left and right) just see religion as an extension of their political beleifs rather than as ACTUAL religious beleifs?

He worth reading?

Should I stop smoking weed everyday?

How do you cope with the tragic sense of life?

Del Sentimiento Trágico de la Vida , 1912

I really love his books, but I don't know why... There's something
What does /lit/ think?