/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.6128499]

Show /lit/ your favorite philosopher and say one thing about what you learnt from him/her

[Anonymous No.6128504]

Doing evil with impunity will still fuck you up ;)

[Anonymous No.6128514]

>>6128504
>Karma

[Anonymous No.6128516]

>>6128499
>slavs will rule the world

Suck it up westerners, it's happening and you know.

[Anonymous No.6128562]

Aim for the moon, even if you miss you'll land amongst the stars

[Anonymous No.6128725]

Divine Right® got a makeover, new toys, and that's it.

[Anonymous No.6128732]

happiness and success are spooks

[Anonymous No.6128737]

Nietzsche

Stop being such a faggot.

[Anonymous No.6128847]

>desire is the cause of suffering
i'm not a buddhist but when i learned about it in my teens it changed the way i view the world. it showed me that the majority of the shit i thought mattered doesn't really matter at all.

[Anonymous No.6128965]

>>6128499
I learned from Kierkegaard that I live too pleasant of a life without despair so I can't yet truly meet God.

[Anonymous No.6128972]

>her

[Anonymous No.6128987]

>>6128972
Well there were female saints who wrote stuff.

[Anonymous No.6128989]

>>6128499
> happiness and virtue are negative in nature

and therefore fleeting, Vanishing whenever the positive aspects of suffering, pain or boredom present themselves.

[Anonymous No.6128999]

>Deleuze
>The rhizome must grow

[Anonymous No.6129020]

Buddha taught me how to swing a golf club.

[Anonymous No.6129041]

>Wittgenstein
>how to remain inside the fly-jar

[Anonymous No.6129068]

>>6128499
>shhhhh, don't speak

[Anonymous No.6129080]

I learned that reductionism is fucking stupid

[Anonymous No.6129111]

>>6128499
Εν οίδα ότι ουδέν οίδα op

[Anonymous No.6129155]

Magnets are alive

[Anonymous No.6129162]

>Patanjali
>constant critique and rejection of ideology and discourse are required to not be a total mong

[Anonymous No.6129361]

>How's about you stop being a bitch and just deal with your shit
>Fuck man, we may only live once, so live wisely

Shit it's a shocker that someone as great as Marcus Aurelius bred a faggot son like Commodus Unless his wife cucked him. Or simply we take a lesson from Socrates and see that the most virtuous people have the shittiest kids

[Anonymous No.6129574]

>>6128965
Are you sure that's what you learned? You're still in despair. No one is free from despair except for Christ as I recall. You are in despair but not as much despair as one who recognizes they are in despair. Ie At least you aren't a pagan.

[Anonymous No.6129580]

[Anonymous No.6129588]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2gJamguN04

[Anonymous No.6129814]

>>6129361
"Do not seek things to be as you wish them to be, but seek things to be as they will be and you will be happy."
If it wasn't for Stoicism, I'd be a wreck right now.
My Mom passed away on Saturday and it's that sort of philosophy which has helped me, but, not totally removed my capacity for emotion.

[Anonymous No.6129826]

>>6129814
Why do we hold onto emotion so dearly? Because it humanizes us? We're already human, that should be enough.

[Anonymous No.6129844]

>>6129826
Because it's a necessary portion of our existence, and, without it, we would lack that quality of humanity.
Unruly or unkempt emotion is a vice, but, tempered emotion is a virtue (which we accomplish with reason).

So, in essence, how can we be human if we lack something that makes us human?

[Anonymous No.6129889]

>>6129844
Is humanity purely metaphysical?

[Anonymous No.6129903]

>>6129889
It's inherently physical with its root in the metaphysical. This means to say that the physical humanity which we understand and recognize is a sort of manifestation of some higher consciousness - or morality, depending on what you're asking.

[Anonymous No.6129920]

He taught me that incessantly asking "Why?" is the most self defeating thing a man can do when faced with the absurd. A man must concern himself only with what is to be done.

[Anonymous No.6131018]

>>6129574
Well than my despair isn't deep enough. In any case my connection to God isn't what I'd like it to be and I believe my comfy life has something to do with it.

[Anonymous No.6131520]

>>6129155
underrated post

[Anonymous No.6131525]

Zapffe taught me not to reproduce and to convince as many people that I can to follow my example.

[Anonymous No.6131560]

>>6129814
>>My Mom passed away on Saturday and it's that sort of philosophy which has helped me, but, not totally removed my capacity for emotion.
have you cried ?

[Anonymous No.6131567]

>>6131018
I have a horrible life and if god exists I hate him

[Anonymous No.6131579]

>>6129361
how boring that an emperor would create works with the philosophy of 'accept what happens and be a good citizen'

[Anonymous No.6131587]

>>6129920
>still being stuck at the why questions
There are bigger problems waiting you, if you're daring.

[Anonymous No.6131592]

Foucault

It's all power relations.

[Anonymous No.6131621]

>>6131592
ya dude totally

[Anonymous No.6131624]

>>6131567
Not the guy you were talking to, but I'd suggest that the reason your life is so shit is because you're blaming other people--even people who don't even exist, like god--for the quality of your own life. If you stopped crying about it in a coach seat and actually commandeered the cockpit of your own life, you might actually improve some things.

[Anonymous No.6131641]

I'm sure some other philosopher has had a similar idea, but I hate the idea of the devil.
Not because he's supposedly evil incarnate, but because I see people blame him for their own shortcomings all the time.
If something doesn't go right or you have a vice like laziness or gluttony, they can easily blame it on the devil trying to sway them.
It's not the devil you asshat, you're just doing it wrong, and even if there was a devil what are you gonna do about it? Get back out there and show him not to fuck with you, don't rely on God to bail you out, like calling up your big bro every time you get into a fight.

[Anonymous No.6131671]

>>6129814
Be careful or you'll get the death penalty

[Anonymous No.6131713]

>>6131567
Your life is shit exactly because you hate God.

[Anonymous No.6131717]

>>6128725
>>6128999
>>6131592

pretty much these

[Anonymous No.6131755]

Christianity is procrastination about real problems.

[Anonymous No.6131766]

>>6131755
No, people are.

[Anonymous No.6131856]

>>6131766
Not either/or.

[Anonymous No.6131917]

>>6131624
That's quite some projecting there

[Anonymous No.6131923]

It's better that the good love you and the evil despise you than for simply everyone to love you

[Anonymous No.6131928]

>>6131923
Also another Confucius teaching that really shook my core a while ago- 'The junzi (morally good person) acts in harmony with others but does not seek to be like them; the small man seeks to be like others and does not act in harmony.

[Anonymous No.6131934]

>>6128737
but Nietzsche was the biggest faggot of them all

[Anonymous No.6131973]

>>6131671

[Anonymous No.6131990]

>>6131624
>people who don't even exist, like god-
lel

[Anonymous No.6132128]

>>6131856
nice

[Anonymous No.6132156]

Diderot; don´t hide behind moralism

[Anonymous No.6132160]

>>6128499
New theory, new method, new action.

[Anonymous No.6132692]

>>6129574
Why was Christ exempt?

[Anonymous No.6133990]

People are tools and you do not want to use them because you are afraid that you may hurt yourself when trying to.

[Anonymous No.6134001]

>>6132692
SK says that despair is a universal human trait. Jesus is the Christ so therefore exempt from that stigma. Sin is despair Christ did not sin. Despair is distance from god but Christ is one with god or the son of god. Christ can free us from despair just as he freed Lazarus from death (used as a metaphor for despair)

[Anonymous No.6134053]

That nearly everything in human affairs is contingent, and how significant this is.

[Anonymous No.6134064]

One word : forms.