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The Ego and its Own

>>22165625
Valis by PKD
There's nothing special about the book but so it happened that after reading it I experienced a brain fever and never touched PKD ever again. I like PKD although I don't want to experience that disquiet ever again.

>>22165625
Justine turned me into a brain dead coomer

>>22165672
Critique of judgement especially.

unironically

>>22165625
I was gonna be dead set on behaviorism until I read this text. never again

>>22165625
Reading about Kant's ideas on this board turned me half mad

>>22165625
Sometimes I wish I just got filtered by this book instead of my sorry ass getting shaken to its core. Nietzsche didn't eliminate my faith in God, but he was closer than anyone else to doing so, and after reading him I never believed in the same way again. Ultimately I found refuge in one who is arguably his foil, Dostoevsky. But still, this work, asides from Zarathustra, most likely encapsulates his philosophy the best.

>>22166040
>shaking to your core by nietzsche
that is the filter lol

>>22166040
>shaken to the core by Beyond Good and Evil

Read The Gay Science for real Nietzsche

>>22165625
World as Will and Representation is the greatest book ever written

>>22165625

>>22165625
Henry Miller

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>>22166365
It's relative to when I read it, I don't find it all that groundbreaking currently now that I have a decent grasp on him.

>>22165683
tl;dr?

>>22165683
>taking solipsism seriously
Fastest way to be ignored by people who think it's fine to just ignore hard questions

>>22166365
Not even Nietzsche cared for it in his later days. That’s early Nietzsche, you want Zarathustra and BGE.

>>22165625

>>22165672
This and plato made me have manic episode.
Wittgenstein stopped it, but damn I wish I was manic again. I felt so alive.

Wittgenstein and Heidegger and Hegel and Deleuze unironically turned me schizophrenic (took classes on Heidi and Witty and Hegel and read Deleuze on side junior year of college [I got better and got degree however {Lacan/Catholicism/God was the cure/answer}])

It probably didn't help that I was also reading Eliade and Evola and Guenon and Spare and Crowley and Grant and Land either. Nor the fact that I consumed psychedelics at least weekly for several years.

>>22165625
I don't know, but I wouldn't really take philosophy seriously until I started reading Descartes. So probably him, before that I would consider it "just some language game and playing with thought".

>>22165672
I took too many edibles one time and was hallucinating this shape that everything morphed into. In the moment I was convinced that I was witnessing what Kant meant by the categories.
>>22166040
I took a similar path anon, but I was never able to find solace in Dostoyevsky / existentialism. To place oneself under that seemed to be a worse fate than simply losing faith.
>>22166944
>1882
>early Nietzsche
>>22166947
>>22166419
These are the two real answers. Everything else feels trivial in comparison.

>>22165625
Probably SEX AND CHARACTER by Weininger.

>>22165625
what exactly changed in your worldview after you read Schoppy?

>>22167737
Weinigger lol

>>22167473
that sounds fun.
I've lived a simple and predictable life as a civil engineer and have never done any drugs more potent than alcohol. should i change?
t. 26 years old

>>22167758
yes before you become a pedo

>>22167306
Same. Being manic makes life much more interesting