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>“A free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation, not on death, but on life.”
Was he right?

>> No.17397338

>>17397330
>A free man
the error

>> No.17397344

>>17397330
Keep grinding that glass Spinosea. Take a deep breath for me.

>> No.17397381

>>17397330
No. Without a culmination and threshold, man is forever enchained to rational bargaining and coping, which is debased from the ordinary spiral of wholesome life into the eternal redditor.

>> No.17397390

"muh free wills!" thought 'the man' whose brain liked the feeling of having, but didn't, as he 'freely' began rationalizing his 'decision' that 'free will' could 'exist'

>> No.17397396

>>17397381
>beep beep boop
>reddit is x so i must be y
>set existence mode to contrarian
the absolute contrarian NPC shitpost

>> No.17397427

>>17397381
Clerical ghettoposters keep moving, /lit/ is a Spinozist neighborhood

>> No.17397445

>>17397396
>everyone who disagrees with me is a contrarian

The very essence of the last man, revealed.

>> No.17397455
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17397455

>>17397445
What can a body do? It can tell you to go back.

>> No.17398226

>>17397344

he may have wagecucked, but he was certainly free in his mind. can any of us say the same?

>> No.17399723
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17399723

Not a single soul in the entire thread knows the difference between absolute freedom and relative freedom

>> No.17399763

>>17399723
>Not a single soul in the entire thread
This much is correct

>> No.17399829
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17399829

Thinking of death is what makes you free

>> No.17400123

>>17397390
Spinoza was a determinist.

>> No.17400547

>>17397330
He didn't write that fake quote though. Is this some simulacra shit or what?

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17400888

>>17399763
You will never be a real woman