/lit/ - Literature

>>12045824
And?

>>11101174
>Continental philosophy

>>10918437
>Being an actual convinced conservative
>While reading political philosophy

Jeez.

Libertarianism, classical liberalism and perhaps even some random exceedingly moralist political treatise is acceptable, but conservatism is just a philistine, dogmatic worldview that suffers from constant appeal to tradition. Hayek in his "Why I Am Not a Conservative" part of "The Constitution of Liberty" wrote a thousand times more than what a hundered books defending conservatism could muster. There is not a single convincing argument found in Burke, not a single profound thought in Scruton - it's just people who are unwilling to reject their intial conservative impulses and hence try to intellectualize them. You are wasting your time.

>>10888242
>sucking cock

>>10562980
>Psychodynamic psychology

>Smith was described by several of his contemporaries and biographers as comically absent-minded, with peculiar habits of speech and gait, and a smile of "inexpressible benignity".[51] He was known to talk to himself,[45] a habit that began during his childhood when he would smile in rapt conversation with invisible companions.[52] He also had occasional spells of imaginary illness,[45]
>According to one story, Smith took Charles Townshend on a tour of a tanning factory, and while discussing free trade, Smith walked into a huge tanning pit from which he needed help to escape.[53] He is also said to have put bread and butter into a teapot, drunk the concoction, and declared it to be the worst cup of tea he ever had.
>Adam Smith thought that speaking about his ideas in conversation might reduce the sale of his books, and so his conversation was unimpressive. According to Boswell, he once told Sir Joshua Reynolds that 'he made it a rule when in company never to talk of what he understood'.[54]