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Anonymous Fri Jun 3 00:01:16 2022 No.20464432 [Reply] [Original]

What are some good books on individualism and discovering your inner self? It seems like the vast majority of people have some sort of external source of validation. People pouring their heart and soul into sports teams, fandoms, political ideologies etc

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 3 00:15:50 2022 No.20464503 >>20464432 The Bible.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 3 00:22:21 2022 No.20464540 Jung seems like your guy. Also Hesse

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 3 01:17:30 2022 No.20464761 >>20464432 Daodejing

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 3 01:30:04 2022 No.20464817 >>20464432 Evola. Then Steiner so you can disregard Evola. Neitzhche if you're dipping your toes in.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 3 01:36:45 2022 No.20464842 Letting go: the pathway of surrender >muh bloated self help cry, it's a quick read

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 3 02:55:41 2022 No.20465183 >>20464432 Nicomachean Ethics. The 'self' is made and can even be chosen, it is not 'discovered', read it and you'll understand why. Then read 'Self as a Centre of Narrative Gravity' to deconstruct the illusion of a 'self' as a cohesive entity

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>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 3 03:54:58 2022 No.20465395 bump

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 3 08:52:18 2022 No.20466056 >>20464817 >Nietzsche Which of his books will give me a general overview of his philosophy?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 3 08:53:43 2022 No.20466061 >>20466056 Ecce Homo

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 3 09:11:01 2022 No.20466095 >>20466056 The only 5 books from him you need are >Human, All Too Human >Thus Spake Zarathustra >Beyond Good and Evil >On the Genealogy of Morals >Ecce Homo

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 3 09:53:12 2022 No.20466216 File: 58 KB, 780x439, CD78EBF4-A0EB-4C5D-AFA3-49708F9FC0C2.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>20465183 >Consciousness is an illusion

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 3 10:09:17 2022 No.20466250 There is no inner self you cringelord

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 3 10:14:13 2022 No.20466267 >>20466216 Huh? Where does that post say that?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 3 10:30:35 2022 No.20466300 >>20466267 Dennett doesn’t believe that subjective conscious states exist

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 3 12:07:54 2022 No.20466549 bump

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 3 14:26:23 2022 No.20467052 >>20464432 The Bible.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 3 14:37:14 2022 No.20467110 >>20466300 Sounds to me like a totally fucking irrelevant talking point for another thread. The OP and that reply specifically related to the self. At no point was consciousness mentioned or implied.

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>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 3 15:23:34 2022 No.20467347 >>20466250 ?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 3 16:27:59 2022 No.20467604 Red Hawk - Self observation Bruno Cayoun - Well-being and personal growth Though I doubt any book can give you what you're looking for

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 3 16:41:31 2022 No.20467670 >>20464503 Literally the opposite of individualism

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 3 18:15:26 2022 No.20467987 >>20464503 Is that the one that tells slaves to be good slaves to their masters and where a guy obeys a voice in his head to kill his own son, which the voice only did for lol? Yeah, I'm good.

Anonymous Fri Jun 3 18:20:38 2022 No.20468004

>>20464432
Individualism doesn't work because individual identities are dependent on group identities. For example, a chair is a group identity, because all chairs are something to sit on, and without that group identification the chair has no existence. This applies to your soul.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 3 18:38:46 2022 No.20468074 >>20467987 Reddit

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 3 19:48:32 2022 No.20468404 File: 397 KB, 780x1282, Merton, New Seeds.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>20464432 >What are some good books on individualism and discovering your inner self? Pic related.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 3 19:49:12 2022 No.20468411 >>20467987 The voice did it for the guy not the lol. The voice already knew the guy would do it, being an all-knowing voice, it wasn't some kind of test. It was a demonstration of faith from the guy for the guy.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 3 21:04:49 2022 No.20468735 >>20468004 Chairs must be different in some way, yes?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 3 21:08:14 2022 No.20468750 >>20464432 Walden

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 3 22:27:04 2022 No.20469100 >>20464817 >Steiner Qrd?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 3 22:30:21 2022 No.20469119 >>20468004 The chair still exists whether you call it one or not.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 4 01:35:19 2022 No.20469703 >>20467987 Why is that bad a thing?

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>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 4 05:20:29 2022 No.20470628 >>20464432 Emerson

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 4 12:19:33 2022 No.20471705 >>20464432 Guenon

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