/lit/ - Literature

I am the smartest person on this board

>>11601861
Hartshorne's algebraic geometry

>>11601865
>I am the biggest turd in the shitpile

>>11601871
I am so smart that your insults do not affect me

>>11601861
A brief history of time by Stephen Hawking perhaps, although the book itself is actually really popsci.

Not saying is the smartest book I ever read, but Emily Dickinson’s complete poems give the impression that someone with an IQ of 160 or higher was writing them (especially when one reads her letters too).

>>11601924
>when one
Scratch that, this is actually the smartest guy on this board

>>11601861
Everyone is a brainlet if you raise the bar high enough

>>11601861
Unironically the last few chapters of Max Tegmark's book about the mathematical universe hypotheses were too much for me. Am I a brainlet?

>Dark Night of the Soul by Saint John of the Cross
>Ressentiment by Scheler
>After Virtue by Macintyre
>Leftism: Revisited by Kuehnelt-Leddihn
>Liberty or Equality by Kuehnelt-Leddihn

>>11602013
>popsci was too much for you
inoperable brainletism

The smartest book I've ever read was the Daodejing.

The dumbest book I've ever read was the Daodejing.

>>11601861
How do I write a character smarter than me?

>>11601861
The Epistle to the Romans by Karl Barth

>>11601884
If you were truly smart you wouldn't post on 4chan.

>>11602044
>Ressentiment by Scheler
>After Virtue by Macintyre

My man! I'm actually using both of these books for my PhD dissertation.
Tell me, have you read the works of Paul Ricouer? His work "Time and Narrative" really puts the twist in the punch that Macintyre delivers.

>>11602075
Oh, wouldn't I? :)

>>11602065
make everyone else dumb desu

>>11602075
I'm so smart that this does not apply to me

Harrison's Internal Medicine.

>>11601963

What do you mean by this?

>>11602147
I'd previously claimed to be the smartest person on this board. I now see that I'll have to make do with second place

>>11602079
Not who you're responding to. Based off the name of Ricouer's book, is it a compliment to MacIntyre's insistence on unity and narrative of human life and its roles?

Somewhat related, but since you presumably know a lot about MacIntyre's work: what distinguishes MacIntyre's conception of narrative from mere bulwark of convention? But he criticizes Burkeans for failing to attribute importance to the roles disagreement and dispute play within a tradition to its endurance and creative tension. And if in the final analysis MacIntyre defends those institutions that preserve those goods inherent in human practices and the way they articulate the individual, is he not forced to preserve the same edifice that supports the incommensurability of disagreement in ethics that we have right now?

The alchimist Coelho.

>>11602158
this is objectively the worst take

>>11602044
>Dark Night of the Soul by Saint John of the Cross
This is an actual masterpiece.
Last book that gave me a hard time was probably Scienza Nuova.

>>11601861
I'm still trying to figure this one out.

>>11601861
im smart by smart people's standards.

But not by the standards of those who are also smart by smart people's standards.

>collected ezra pound

>>11601870
nice intro book pleb come back after you've finished grad school

>>11602345
what was your thesis?

>>11602352
I'm just being a inflammatory faggot, I'm still in grad school too and haven't worked with anything comparable to Hartshorne in terms of difficulty.

>>11602430
>>11602352
Nice try reprobates, I've just completed Book III of Euclid's Elements.

>>11602079
How beautiful! I will pray that you create quality work.

>Ressentiment
I will not lie, I haven't actually read Ressentiment, but I've read the essay and that had a great deal to say. I read some excerpts from the book and it is profound.

Reading that essay from a Catholic (Christian) perspective is really interesting. The downward flowing type of love that we must strive for comes from a state of strength, security, and self-love. It would seem selfish, but it is a requirement for authentic love. To love yourself, you must see the Image of God within, so that would mean you must love God, firstly. And you must love yourself to then love your neighbors (And you even see God's image in them).

>After Virtue
I really enjoyed this book, even though it was a difficult read. I found that the promotion of a polis, a community, in where people work for each other in the realm of virtue, to be very important. Man is naturally communal, not individualistic and his ethics are disposed in the direction of the community (but the telos would be union with God), rather than what he desires (and that ties into the love thy neighbor deal as well). Again, from a Catholic view, I saw this being applied to the Body of Christ, the community of the baptized. We are naturally disposed towards union with God, a state where we fully comprehend Him, and this brings us Christians into a community.

>Paul Ricouer
No, I have not! You have me interested though. What is "Time and Narrative" about?

Another thing on After Virtue, I was left a little emptied handed by him not establishing what set of virtues and what telos we are to be attentive too and what justifies the set that we choose, but Thomism solved this problem for me (natural law justifying our set of virtues, virtues that stem from nature, and our telos being "understandnig God fully"). I know that After Virtue is a part of a series that attempts solve that problem though.

Sorry for rambling.

>>11602054
based

>>11602203
It's very profound. I read the Peers translation and man, it was tough in the beginning. But eventually, I was able to get used to the style and follow Saint John of the Cross's logic.

bump

>>11602345
not nice man

>>11601861
Thomas Mann

>>11602149
You at least have a sense of humour.

>>11602044
Are you me?

>>11603227
I've noticed there are quite a lot of reactionaries on /lit/. I already knew of the vast(perhaps just loud) Catholic presence, too.