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Anonymous Tue Nov 29 18:52:09 2016 No.8780474 [Reply] [Original]

Who are some great writers with the love of humanity in their hearts?
I want the grandest sense of empathy possible.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 29 18:53:36 2016 No.8780483 >>8780474 Kjv Bible God, the king of all kings, Lord of Lords, became a man and died for all our sins and if we simply trust He did that for us, we're granted eternal life the same second.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 29 18:54:15 2016 No.8780486 Me you stupid fuck

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 29 18:55:06 2016 No.8780488 >>8780474 Leodor Tolstoyevsky

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 29 18:55:37 2016 No.8780489 File: 92 KB, 800x964, james-joyce.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8780483 There is great love in NT but also great hatred.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 29 18:55:40 2016 No.8780490 >>8780483 >Believe in magic and follow a bunch of rules and you'll get an unspecified reward

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 29 19:00:47 2016 No.8780512 >>8780488 Whats a short work by each of them that's a good way to test them out?

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 29 19:01:51 2016 No.8780515 >>8780490 wow a sarcastic comment, it must be true.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 29 19:03:33 2016 No.8780522 >>8780474 george orwell and nikolai gogol

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 29 19:03:36 2016 No.8780523 >>8780512 For Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilyich For Dostoyevsky, White Nights. or you could take this shit seriously and read Anna Karenina and The Brothers Karamazov.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 29 19:04:49 2016 No.8780531 >>8780483 unless you're a FAGGOT

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 29 19:05:37 2016 No.8780533 >>8780531 God does not hate homosexuals, he hates the act. He died for them too on the cross.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 29 19:06:33 2016 No.8780536 >>8780474 Unironically Max Stirner.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 29 19:06:46 2016 No.8780540 >>8780523 Sorry that you found my asking to be offensive. >>8780522 should I read a bunch of Russians before jumping onto Dead Souls? I am seriously lacking in that dept. as is clear i'm sure.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 29 19:09:35 2016 No.8780551 >>8780540 I haven't read it. Right now I'm reading a collection of his short stories which I highly recommend, moving on to Dead Souls after.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 29 19:11:23 2016 No.8780556 File: 12 KB, 376x312, kropotkin.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8780474

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 29 19:16:52 2016 No.8780569 >>8780531 Sounds good to me.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 29 19:18:01 2016 No.8780574 Montaigne

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 29 19:21:54 2016 No.8780589 Correct me if I'm wrong, but Melville really loved humanity right? That's what all the sperm-squeezing hand-holding was about?

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 29 19:24:22 2016 No.8780597 Simone Weil

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 29 19:30:01 2016 No.8780615 Memoirs of Hadrian.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 29 19:34:04 2016 No.8780627 >>8780615 My friend bought me that book! I'm excited for it honestly.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 29 19:38:15 2016 No.8780637 >>8780627 Oh, it was a great read.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 29 20:20:42 2016 No.8780754 >>8780490 >I'm retarded and can't be bothered to read anything about it cause then I can't be in the Special Olympics

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 29 20:31:39 2016 No.8780771 >>8780515 >>8780754 Really inadequate responses, guys.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 29 21:26:13 2016 No.8780969 File: 2.47 MB, 1996x3530, Epicteti_Enchiridion_Latinis_versibus_adumbratum_(Oxford_1715)_frontispiece.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8780474 Epictetus

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 29 22:13:47 2016 No.8781174 File: 5 KB, 186x186, walt.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >not posting the GOAT lover

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 29 22:20:48 2016 No.8781195 >>8780474 Michael Slote. Read "The Ethics of Care and Empathy."

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 29 22:34:00 2016 No.8781258 >>8780536 This. There's a reason Marx hated him. Stirner managed to put together a philosophy that can love and admonish all people without having to sacrifice neither the individual nor self-consciousness for a utopia.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 29 22:39:49 2016 No.8781281 >>8781174 Patrician taste

Anonymous Tue Nov 29 23:25:49 2016 No.8781478
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>>8781174
Not so fast!

Also James Joyce, when you get past his asperities of brilliance, was one of the great literary benefactors of humanity. Shelley (P.B.) was a very great softy as well. And of course Shakespeare.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 29 23:34:18 2016 No.8781495 >>8780474 Schopenhauer, Benatar, Ligotti, Zapffe, Cioran.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 29 23:42:23 2016 No.8781516 File: 56 KB, 450x403, Sumo bus.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8781495 0/10

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 30 01:17:36 2016 No.8781761 >>8780474 Chekhov

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 30 01:21:06 2016 No.8781767 >>8780474 Watched the Great Dictator recently, did we?

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 30 01:25:32 2016 No.8781775 >>8781767 nope, just thought it was a phrase that wouldn't be confused

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 30 01:25:40 2016 No.8781777 James Salter Basho Rumi

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 30 05:55:44 2016 No.8782187 >>8780474 I wish I knew you in real life, OP; I'd give you a worthy list of titles and authors. Asking that question on 4chan is crazy, though. Pearls before swine, yards yadda yadda.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 30 06:00:41 2016 No.8782193 >>8782187 >>8781761 >>8781495 >>8781258 >>8780754 >>8780615 >>8780556 >>8780540 >>8780523 >>8780488 Hey will you people give a first time writer some advice? :( >>8782159

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 30 06:10:36 2016 No.8782209 >>8780523 AK is a good starting point for Tolstoy, but Crime and Punishment is probably better for Dosto >>8780512 You don't have to "test out" the greatest writers of all time, you know.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 30 06:17:41 2016 No.8782218 >>8782187 >Finally, we meet in person! Now I shall present you my list. >First we have Kurt Vonnegut...

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 30 09:55:57 2016 No.8782638 File: 5 KB, 168x250, Kropotkin tshirt.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8782193 1st. Lose the Cancerman pics (Feels, frogs whatever) 2nd. Don't use those terms (Robots, chads etc.) 3rd. You may get something out of reading Cyrano de Bergerac

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 30 10:43:46 2016 No.8782749 File: 120 KB, 600x600, 1480520626302.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8780474 Ο ΑΓΙΟΣ ΟΜΗΡΟΣ

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 30 11:00:12 2016 No.8782786 File: 52 KB, 400x262, losethemchains.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 30 11:35:32 2016 No.8782879 >>8781516 I'm serious though. If you really care for people you do not want them to suffer.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 30 11:39:44 2016 No.8782894 Read Middlemarch.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 30 12:22:37 2016 No.8783035 >>8782638 >Cyrano de Bergerac In real life that kind of shit happens all the time, and there's never a happy ending.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 30 12:25:36 2016 No.8783046 >>8782894 listen well OP

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 30 12:32:23 2016 No.8783067 >>8782879 If you really care, like the almighty, you will understand that suffering is essential to life as is reward. A good man was never free from suffering.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 30 12:33:01 2016 No.8783068 >>8782894 Oh I have I decided to use Ovid instead of.george Eliot so I'd deal with fewer shitposters

Anonymous Wed Nov 30 12:53:10 2016 No.8783139
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>>8782879
most people do not learn anything
with, the few who learn, most of them learn only after having suffer
it is quite rare to find somebody who learns by just watching people's mistake

Anonymous Wed Nov 30 14:25:02 2016 No.8783536

>>8783068
Read both. Middlemarch is also the ultimate antidote to the retarded identity politics "dae think everything women write is shit" threads. I can conceive of someone not liking Middlemarch, but to argue that it's poorly written is pure shitposting.

Anonymous Wed Nov 30 14:29:07 2016 No.8783548

>>8783067
Suffering is essential to human life, but human life is not essential to anything.
>>8783139
People do not need to learn anything. Suffering has no purpose other than to help people become better at avoiding suffering. But suffering is best avoided by not coming into existence.

Anonymous Wed Nov 30 14:29:53 2016 No.8783550

Has anyone read Tolstoy's Resurrection?

I'm about halfway through, but I've never heard anyone even talk about it on this board. I'm quite enjoying it. What are the critical strengths and failures of this novel in why it's not considered when his other novels are?

>>8780523
>>8780488

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 30 14:32:35 2016 No.8783559 File: 195 KB, 1200x798, evil demiurge worship.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8783067 >unironically worshipping the demiurge

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 30 14:35:45 2016 No.8783573 >>8783536 I have read both. Middlemarch is my favorite novel, but those sexist dummies are people I didn't feel like dealing with so I avoided using it in Op.

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