/lit/ - Literature

You can tell Musashi hints at Nietzsche's ideas of amor fati, affirmation, and order of rank just from reading the Dokkodo with less words whereas Nietzsche elaborates on them at greater detail

How does this solve my incel angst and get me a girlfriend tho?

>>23327677
By putting your fat ass to work

>>23327632
Looks like Ezra Pound

>>23327706
I don't think anybody knows what he looked like. Just a random ass cover. Apparently he was 6 foot which was giant in 1600s japan. That's not important though, it's how he draws his experience as an immensely sharp and skilled warrior to it's most basic and fundamental and how those fundamentals can be applied to any way in life.

>>23327632
lmao I can never take the East Asian general's win ratio seriously. Almost all of the time, the battles they won were against their own kin. They never faced other ethnicities or civilizations.

>>23327673
fpbp

>>23327850
Why do I even post here are people here really this retarded? Firstly he wasn't a general he was a duelist, secondly this is a work about his realization that the most principal concepts about any "way" of life not just swordsmanship are universal. It's incredible this work even exists for us to read. It's not about touting his legendary status, it's the culmination of all the life experiences of a genius who happened to be a unbeaten samurai and a painter.

>>23327907
Really nice mindset, I agree totally. You’ve convinced me to give it a read.

>>23327850
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>>23328035
The Samurai were midgets with slave morality obedience. Musashi is just the best of the midgets.

>>23328035
The translation by Alex Bennett is a good one because he understands a massive amount of context behind the works and is also a long time kendo practitioner in Japan

>>23328067
Samurai were corrupt assholes that used "honor" as a cover up for their horrible deeds.

>>23328078
I don't think so. They actually killed themselves.

Shame and honor are not things to play around with. The Greeks and Romans knew this too.

>>23328067
*Tips fedora*
>>23328078
No question Mushashi lived in barbaric times and scholars have questioned if Mushashi had a bloodlust for proving the weakness of all other schools in Japan during his 20s. It's impossible to really say anything about his life with great accuracy because there were very little reliable historical records and famous Japanese works glorified his life into basically an anime protagonist.

>>23328101
You're a Gook fedora wearer confirmed.

>>23328110
Go back to normie basedcial media. You're on 4chan idiot.

lol at this thread

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>>23328119
Fucking gooks can't cope with being feminine faggots.

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>>23328137
Gook faggot

>>23327632

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>>23327632
chuds v gooks
this could get messy

>>23328189
You got it just right. Death to the gooks.

>>23328191
And you are?