/lit/ - Literature

I wish foucault wouldn't have turned out to be a homosexual.

>>16952929
Reading Nietzsche as a teenager unironically improved my life

>>16952929
Philosophy is useless.

>>16952929
Spinoza, quite significantly, completely altered my conception of true freedom.
>>16953439
Black science man is based for making as many people seethe as he does but he’s a retard.

>>16953439
Black science mean btfos metaphysics

Watts unironically is the flashpoint for helping sort my perceptions out and keeping me hale holy and healthy

>>16953501
reddit

>>16953501
https://youtu.be/gH3eGosOqXU

>>16952929
Kant made me an even bigger autist than I already am. Nietzsche allowed me to bypass the cringy teen stage of pretending to be Nietzschean without having read Nietzsche. Brentano allows me to confuse analytics. Pascal makes me based just by having read him.

>>16952929
This man! He has totally enriched me!

>>16953509

Watts is reddit and midwit as fuck for sure. But he is an excellent speaker and his early writing is the best starting point imho for anyone with a passing interest in theology, philosophy, etc etc who wants to delve deeper and understand some more esoteric ideas.

>>16953439
reddit moment

>>16953439

As Pascal wrote, critizicing philosophy is philosophy

>>16952929

>>16952929
Short term all of them
Long term none of them

Michelstäedter

>>16952929
Plato

heidegger

>>16953834
how so?

pls somebody give me rec. I read marx, made me depress. read spengler, made me more depress.
I need some hopium bros.

>>16954096
Harry Potter.

>>16952929
>>16954096
Neetch.

>>16953717
who's that middle eastern looking guy?

>>16952929
Bataille helped me justify my shitty spending habits as a solar act participating in the general economy

>>16952929
>What philosophers have improved your life?

>>16952929
Marcus Aurelius

>>16954096
Kierkegaard

>>16952929
none. philosophy is like a strange space between life and death

>>16956662
checkd

>>16954373
Thats ayn rand

epictetus.

>>16954096
Take some Vitamin D supplements, my dude. You're probably not getting enough sunlight.

>>16953439
You have to go back, r*dditor

Madhyamaka
realising everything is empty, not a nihilism but as a reality affirming thing helped me t start to overcme suffering.

>>16952929
Laotse

I don't listen to what ugly people say.

>>16952929
Foucault was pretty life changing, it's when I realised you can just write any old shit.

>>16953439
This.So much THIS

>>16952932
why?

>>16953439
Thank you black science man.

Neetcha Relative morals helped me understand relationships and see others points of view even if I am unable to feel them. The problem tho is that i started to notice that people dont really see each other, especially when they think they do and that can be a lonely sensation

Material determinism marx gives insights into the man machine and gives insight into resentment and is helping me with managing my business

thesis antithesis synthesis
Is pretty mind blowing. Still wraping head around it, but definately something i will tell my kids about when they ready

Plato socrates when i was very angry and hurt and craving power and revenge, the republic tricked me into showing me the end game and lulled me away from a path that would have lead to misery

>>16953439
He's unironically right, but for the wrong reasons. Questions like "the meaning of meaning" aren't the purview of philosophy, but rather religion and ultimately the sacred. If you're searching for a source of inspiration, that's where you'll find it; not in "philosophy" or "metaphysics".

>>16953717
What is this pic implying

>>16953717
Based schizo

>>16958951
I fucking hate this new wave of wojak spam but it really encapsulates the internet soibois

>>16954373
That's Michiel Huisman, Dutch actor

>>16952947
This only happens if you do it earnestly, good on you.

>>16954096
Do watts, Way of Zen or Tao:Watercourse way, then study the Dao De Jing and then Mumonkan, enlightenment guaranteed.

>>16954500
I don't think that frenchie understood economics then

>>16954096
Melville

>>16953439

So I can know what I am doing, for starters.

>>16952929
Aj ayer, daniel dennett so far.

>>16952929
Plotinus was the last philosopher I read about three years ago, and I never came back to philosophy books. Incidentally, literature became infinitely more fun to read after Plotinus

>>16959412
Based

>>16954096
Denial of Death is right up your alley.

>>16953439
especially utilitarianism

>>16959390
>daniel dennett

>>16959390
Marxism belongs on the right hand side.

>>16959390
you disgust me

>>16952929
Alasdair MacIntyre and Meister Eckhart. Not memeing.

>>16954096
something comfy like war and peace is what you need

>>16954096
The Principle of Hope by Ernst Bloch

>>16953439

>>16952929
I started eating more rhizomes because of Deleuze and his writing made me happy.
Mainländer made me more spiritual and Stirner, Lafargue helped me with western life.

>>16952929
I read the Greeks as a Teen and it made me feel inadequate and sent me down a self improvement rabbit hole, the Western Philosophers just made me angsty and angry like Albert Camus, Sartre, Kierkegaard, and then I started down Hegel and the Young Hegelians and my life stabilized dramatically. Stirner was particularly a large influence on my development and made me a dramatically better person. I went from Socially Inept Incel to "People Person" and now I love people. Thanks Stirner.
>>16959949
I've been interested in reading Lafargue, would you recommend The Right to Be Lazy? or is there a better introduction?

>>16959996
>Stirner was particularly a large influence on my development and made me a dramatically better person. I went from Socially Inept Incel to "People Person" and now I love people. Thanks Stirner.
It makes me happy that people can get this out of Stirner

>>16959996
yeah the right to be lazy is cool and wage slavery is still the same as it was in his time

>>16959996
Is Stirner unironically worth reading?

>>16953501
Watts tried to take eastern philosophy and regurgitate it to the west, where it makes absolutely no sense at all. It has zero applicability if you intend to live in a current western society

>>16960107
Yes, his prose is very enjoyable, he has a good sense of humor, The Unique and Its Property/The Ego and Its Own reads like you're friends with a philosophy professor and he takes you to a bar and the two of you are having a few drinks and he decides to let you in on his ideas. He is very descriptive and witty.

>>16953439
Based nigger.

>>16954059
yep

>>16959434
Stop feeding suifuel kek.

>>16953439