/lit/ - Literature

>>14639457
Why do you have to show me this obnoxious face every single day? Please, stop, stop!

>>14639462
First time posting Hegel I usually post guenon and get banned

Hegel looks like my grandma

why don't these philosophers write in a way that's easier to understand? the germans are the worst ones of all (except for nietzsche and schop who were basically anti-germans)

>>14639565
do we have the same grandmother? what letter does you grandma's name start with?

>>14639587
G

>>14639588
Ah, alas, mine is a P

>>14639457
>philosopher that are hard

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>>14639626
>refuted by Guenon, retroactively
Nothing personal, kid.

Genuinely impossible to grasp unless you've intuited the specific problems discussed in this book before

>>14639457
Heidegger's sein und zeit

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>>14639579
>nietzsche
I found him difficult to read, maybe just a brainlet

>>14641708
He literally just form shitty opinions from other philosophers.

>>14641708
Not at all. Most people who say Nietzsche is easy to read are the actual brainlets. He gives the impression of being easy to read because there’s a great deal of tangent literalism in his works, but there’s really no bottom to his poetic allegory. He’s so often cryptic. Hegel and Nietzsche are both difficult, just in very different ways.

John Rawls, Amartya Sen out of sheer technicality. David K. Lewis and Linda Alcoff.

>>14639579
Difficult concepts require difficult language. Unless you're also retarded. Hegel once said that, even though many are complaining about his difficult style of writing, that he is writing that way because he was gifted to write like that and that he can't just change it. Kant also jokes about himself in Critique of Pure Reason on his unclear style of writing.

>>14643130
do you remember the kant quote?

>>14639457
The opening of Keirkegaards "Sicknes unto Death" is a cluster fuck. Dude should have just drawn a diagram.

>>14641711
you literally just form shitty opinions from other philosophers

>>14640615
Formerly Dasein

>>14639457
Hegel wrote for the layman. The publishing company ruined the Phenomenology by wanting to appeal to the Kant crowd. His lectures are surprisingly pretty clear though

>>14639565
Same

>>14643392
It's pretty hard to not be clear in a lecture unless you are seriously babbling without having a clue about your subject

>>14641744
Depends on the neech book. Thus spoke Zarathustra is very hard to read, his other books arent that hard though, if you have read the prerequisite philosophers.

>>14643152
Maybe I can find it, but my copy is not in English.