/lit/ - Literature

Damn I really love philosophy.
Making up new shit and ideas is so much fun and the fact that so many get absolutely filtered by the process is just the cherry on top of it.

>>20063886
>I was disappointed in the inherent dualism
The dualism between child and placenta which then becomes this relationship between the human and his enviroment?
He does eventually break up this dualism especially when he arrives at Part two where the human inhabitation of the different spheres becomes important and the topic is basically man in relation to his surroundings. He also doesn't come back to it too much during the rest of the trilogy.
He does dwell on this duality quite long though I have to admit but I suspect that this is mainly because he really wants to drive home the point how much of a catastrophe birth so that Heideggers Geworfenheit (thrownness) becomes really rooted as the core of his ontology. It is this Geworfenheit which also made P. SL. so interested in gnosticism, a topic which he discusses from time to time in his books.

>did I stop reading too soon?
In my opinion he really picks up the pace in Globes (spheres part 2) and for many people on /lit/ this is probably the most interesting part too because it all really starts with the greeks. But it's really for you to decide if you want to continue. If you didn't finish book one you still can start book 2 and see where it takes you and still drop it if he fails yet again to catch your interest. They are all more or less self-contained.

>I'm more interested in polarity
Then maybe "you must change your life" is more interesting because there his self described role as "onto-kineticist" is more prevalent.
It's a big book on why and how we "strife" for something. An upward motion.