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How do I fix my life using literature? I want to change my perspectives, but I don't want to become religiouslike. What are some good philosophical systems to live in this world? Is stoicism good or is it a meme?

>> No.15719232
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Aristotle's Golden Way; much like Buddha's Middle Way. Is very much cardinal law and a virtuous way of life.

His book Politics is based af. Ethnostates, slavery, and middle class all the way
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>> No.15719244

Philosophy is a cope read Krishnamurti - Freedom From the Known

>> No.15719251

everything other that Christianity is a cope

>> No.15719252

just read, wide and close. dogmatism is for weak and lazy minds.

>> No.15719255

>>15719154
Try living moment to moment without narratives. If they come up engage them but never submit to any. And if your feeling alone go to God, and there places where his children congregate. Go there

>> No.15719265

>>15719154
If there was ever a philosophy deserving of the label "meme", it's stoicism. Unless you're prepared to kill yourself in the face of undignified behavior and disgrace, don't bother

>> No.15719282

Camus is pretty good for this.

>> No.15719290

>>15719265
Could you elaborate?

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And I'm not sure if reciprocity or Ragnar Redbeard's Might is Right is the way to go, we're a product of both so who knows what the future holds.

In my opinion you ought to adhere to Juvenal's saying, "Sound body sound mind." As well as the first hermetic principle of 'All is Mind'.

>> No.15719364

>>15719290
Stoicism is more interesting for its innovations in logic and philosophy of language than in its ethics, which, while nominally reaching for the same ends as all "virtue ethics", has a vision of the individual that is quite different from the rest in its passionless, rudderless, all consuming obsession with the principle that the only thing we can control is our judgment and that we ought to use that judgment to regulate emotion, which sounds nice in theory, until Seneca takes it to its logical conclusion and advocates suicide in the face on unabidable shame. At the end of the day it thinks it's putting you in a state of mind that produces ataraxia, which maybe it does, at the cost of everything else which you might affect. Not worth it.

>> No.15719590

>>15719232
That passage that says something along the lines of "states should be organzied by race" uses a word for a social parameter that is more local than ethnicity or race, unless you mean that spartans and athenians are different ethnicities. To derive this you need to find the usage of φυλέ which is the word used in the manuscript.