/lit/ - Literature

He was right all along

>wrote an entire book about a tummy ache
Fucking hack

>>12536303

>rewords this simple turn of phrase and proceeds to do so for ~850 pages
Wow okay, now THIS is epic!

Has anyone here read Being and Nothingness? and if so what did you think of it?

What's with Philosophers being unsuccessful politicians

>Sits down next to you at a bar
>Orders some mescaline
>Slips his shoes off
>Recives mescaline
>"Merci, mec"
>Uses an old worn copy of "being and time" as a coaster
>Stares cross-eyed into the distance

Is Sartre Marxist propaganda?

Did he ever explain why determinism was wrong?

im doing a survey of the history of philosophy by date of birth and i just got into the 1900s with fromm, gadamer, heisenberg, popper, adorno, sartre and arendt.

im not that well versed in logic, nor that interested, and im wondering if i can skip goodman, godel, quine. i read a little of goodman (not aesthetics), and some quine and was honestly put to sleep. is there some shit i need to take away from them to continue on?

Experienced professionals? They have dragged out their life in stupor and semi-sleep, they have married hastily, out of impatience, they have made children at random. They have met other men in cafés, at weddings and funerals. Sometimes, caught in the tide, they have struggled against it without understanding what was happening to them. All that has happened around them has eluded them; long, obscure shapes, events from afar, brushed by them rapidly and when they turned to look all had vanished. And then, around forty, they christen their small obstinacies and a few proverbs with the name of experience, they begin to simulate slot machines: put a coin in the left hand slot and you get tales wrapped in silver paper, put a coin in the slot on the right and you get precious bits of advice that stick to your teeth like caramels.

Sartre, Jean-Paul. Nausea (New Directions Paperbook) (Kindle Locations 1374-1380). New Directions. Kindle Edition.

>"It's one of my old pupils who has failed in the examinations"
>"Ah yes, they're becoming more and more difficult from what I hear"
>"Much more"
>"And just to think! All these young folks that do pass, there they are with a degree, and what's to be done with them?"
>"Exactly what I say"

woah...really makes you think

Is there really such a thing as "authenticity?" One could argue that you are always affected by things like your cultural upbringing, or circumstances that shaped your moral code before you were conscious enough to forge your own meaning.

Essentially, the decision to be "authentic" will almost always be affected by the dominant culture in which you grew up in. How could this possibly be conducive to constructing a unique "meaning?" Is the quest to be authentic a rabbit hole that never results in happiness?