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[Anonymous No.10361956]

Is it a good book?

[Anonymous No.10362062]

>>10361956
>jewish author
probably not

[Anonymous No.10362064]

>>10362062
ebin kek, my kekistani brother

[Anonymous No.10362067]

>>10362064
id rather read jewish books than alt right books

[Anonymous No.10362076]

>>10361956
it has the memerson seal of approval, take this however you want

[Anonymous No.10362167]

>>10362062
What about Leo Strauss?

>>10362076
I take this as a good thing. I like memerson.

[Anonymous No.10362198]

>>10362062
top kek, maga

[Anonymous No.10362206]

>>10361956
Yes, unique viewpoint and you read it in a few hours.

[Anonymous No.10362256]

>>10362206
>unique viewpoint
yes schlomo what does frankl talk about in this book that epictetus, seneca or aurelius havent talked about?

[Anonymous No.10362480]

>>10362256
Frankl is a good addition to stoicism.

[Anonymous No.10362504]

I hardly remember it desu, his other popular psychology book is pretty retarded.

But this one is ok

[Anonymous No.10362542]

>The way in which a man accepts his fate and all the suffering it entails, the way in which he takes up his cross, gives him ample opportunity–even under the most difficult circumstances–to add a deeper meaning to his life. It may remain brave, dignified and unselfish. Or in the bitter fight for self-preservation he may forget his human dignity and become no more than an animal. Here lies the chance for a man either to make use of or to forgo the opportunities of attaining the moral values that a difficult situation may afford him. And this decides whether he is worthy of his sufferings or not.

>Do not think that these considerations are unworldly and too far removed from real life. It is true that only a few people are capable of reaching such high moral standards. Of the prisoners only a few kept their full inner liberty and obtained those values which their suffering afforded, but even one such example is sufficient proof that man’s inner strength may raise him above his outward fate. Such men are not only in concentration camps. Everywhere man is confronted with fate, with the chance of achieving something through his own suffering.

>Take the fate of the sick–especially those who are incurable. I once read a letter written by a young invalid, in which he told a friend that he had just found out he would not live for long, that even an operation would be of no help. He wrote further that he remembered a film he had seen in which a man was portrayed who waited for death in a courageous and dignified way. The boy had thought it a great accomplishment to meet death so well. Now–he wrote–fate was offering him a similar chance.

[Anonymous No.10363128]

>>10362256
The holocaust