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Who are some authors you disagree with but respect immensely?

>> No.15101255
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>>15101239
Myself

>> No.15101267

>>15101239
Chomsky

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Hobbes

>> No.15101280

Scott Alexander. Brilliant, but has covert megalomaniac tendencies.

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Voltaire, the most elegant shitposter

>> No.15101302

>>15101239
I disagree with Peterson and think he's nowhere hear bright enough to debate someone like Zizek but he's also not a bad man and he doesn't deserve what happened eith the Benzos.

>> No.15101309

>>15101239
Gene Wolfe, I don't agree with his catholisim but he is based.

>> No.15101392

>>15101239
Richard Dawkins. As a Catholic I disagree with him however his books on evolution are very well written and useful for dabbing on young earth creationists

>> No.15101400

>>15101392
>useful for dabbing on young earth creationists
Why would you want to dab on Augustine?

>> No.15101403

>>15101274
this gif is badass

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Tolkien. It's like he decided to build an amazing piano with ivory keys, golden details and all that just to play a lullaby.

>> No.15101450

>>15101239
Marilynne Robinson

>> No.15101476

>>15101274
is this an MGR reference

>> No.15101497

>>15101448
what would you have done with middle earth

>> No.15101502

>>15101392

>dawkins
>well writ

>> No.15101534

>>15101497
More nuances and less Christian allegory.

>> No.15101535
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>>15101239
Mishima and Dostoyevsky. I myself am a Stirnerite, so I am at total odds with their aesthetic nationalism, but I still immensely love them as writers.

>> No.15101556

>>15101448
>Lord of the Rings
>The Silmarillion
>The Lay of Leithian
>A lullaby
Anon, have you actually read Tolkien, or just watched the movies?

>> No.15101619

>>15101535
Where's your Ernst Jünger, lad

>> No.15101623

>>15101239
Karl Marx. His analysis on the cruelty of the reality of life about harsh working conditions of the proletariat class is a spot on yet I don't agree with the "solution" provided to overthrow the bourgeoisie class, yet I respect him.

>> No.15101978

>>15101623
>His analysis on the cruelty of the reality of life about harsh working conditions of the proletariat class is a spot on
Too bad every economic theory he put forth to explain it was bunk

>> No.15102058

>>15101623
He didn't think it was a solution, he just though history would work in that way

>> No.15102077

>>15101476
aye

>> No.15102103

>>15101239
The Old Testament/ Hebrew Bible
I cant believe OP made a good thread

>> No.15102122

>>15101392
I haven't spent a lot of time around evangelicals, but in the name of scientism he throws philosophy and spirituality out the door. I don't know if his shattering of protestant faith is really that great, because they come out schlubby Reddit atheists. In America, at least, they're almost identical, and since they have never known a real God, they end up falling into some pseudo-spiritual nonsense eventually like Reiki or astrology or they just invent "science" in their minds. Sometimes I think it's best not to tamper with the American peasant faiths.

>> No.15102165

I'm a devout follower of deontology, but I believe that if there was ever a person devoid of hypocrisy who could authentically disregard morality and never, even under extreme emotional duress, hear its call, it would be Max Stirner. If there can be no reconciliation of the ideas, then I would gladly just fight him to the death, without any desire for bloodshed, justice, or hate.

>> No.15102177

>>15101239
kant