/lit/ - Literature

>>17543185
You mean men who are too weak and emotionally insecure to tackle their problems by themselves so they run to some faux-prophet who offers a spiritually charged materialism claiming to have all the answers. Nietzsche called the former the last men. Spengler called the latter the Second Religiousness.

>>14361026
This is bizarre, it's basically a celebrity trying to educate the masses about philosophy. Anyway he should read Nietzsche who BTFO Greek ethics

>Reason = virtue = happiness means merely that one must imitate Socrates and counter the dark appetites with a permanent daylight - the daylight of reason. One must be clever, clear, bright at any price: any concession to the instincts, leads down to the unconscious... Socrates seemed to be a physician, a savior. Is it necessary to demonstrate the error that lay in his belief in "rationality at any price"? - It is a self-deception on the part of philosophers and moralists, so extricating themselves from decadence that they make war against it. Extrication lies beyond their strength, what they choose as a means, as salvation is itself just another expression of decadence - they change their expression, they cannot do it away themselves.

>>13482353
IQ doesn't mean jack shit fuck off with your Egypticism.

>essay is called Schopenhauer as Educator
>is about Kant

>>9773348
ultimately tho for aesthetics it's all about this guy

I've been on a mission for the past few months to read the Existentialist Philosophers. So far I've read Nietzsche's, Beyond Good And Evil, Kierkegaard's, Fear and Trembling, and I've started, but not yet finished Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment. After I finish, I plan on reading Sartre. What do you guys think of the Existentialists? I love Nietzsche's writing style and ideas. Though, I disagree with some of his conclusions, mainly the will to power being our fundamental drive as well as the idea of creating our own values, I completely agree that we can't escape our subjectivity and that values are at the heart of our logical processes. Kierkegaard on the other hand did mental gymnastics for Christianity, and while I'm Catholic and agree the story needs reconciliation--if you believe the Old Testament, he did a poor job of it. Although, maybe it can't be reconciled. I personally dismiss the Old Testament. Anyways, what do ya'll think. Would love to talk Nietzsche with you guys.

I was going to make a joke about existential nihilism, but what's the fucking point?

Where do I start with Nietzsche?