/lit/ - Literature

1. egalitarian slave morality
2. spooked by free will spook, more slave morality, some asceticism
3. free will again, individualism, reality/truth spook
4. merit spook, politics-as-solution spook, anti-nationalist
5. anti-particular aspect of religiousness, underestimating religious impulse, more egalitarianism,
6. epicurus-vibe, also detected some stoic vibes here and above but not completely, more individualism

you give me a watered-down enlightenment/common sense/matter-of-fact british or american protestant/tolerant/utilitarian feeling, like john locke or thomas reid or benjamin franklin or john stuart, from the things you included and especially the things you excluded it doesn't seem like your mind went through industrial-enlightenment reaction period, either in romanticism (doesn't seem like you'd go this way) or in marxism (you might go this way but would come out of it anyway), i think if you wanted to expand into new things someone like william james would be helpful
ordinary liberal (in wide sense) with mundane/commonplace beliefs, like you gleefully absorbed what is in air now with no qualms and without too much reflection (sign of philistinism), really no point in describing yourself or your beliefs for other people since you would be describing their belief system to themselves

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I think Nietzsche's reaction to Joyce would be similar to his reaction to Sterne.

>In a book for free spirits one cannot avoid mention of Laurence Sterne, the man whom Goethe honoured as the freest spirit of his century. May he be satisfied with the honour of being called the freest writer of all times, in comparison with whom all others appear stiff, square toed, intolerant, and downright boorish!

Source: http://www.lexido.com/EBOOK_TEXTS/MISCELLANEOUS_MAXIMS_AND_OPINIONS_.aspx?S=113

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"In the last 200 years we haven't had a great thinker. My judgment is bold, since Kant is included. All the great thinkers of recent centuries from Kant to Benedetto Croce have only cultivated the garden." -James Joyce

Source: http://www.saylor.org/site/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/James-Joyce-Literary-Tastes.pdf

The mere sense of living is joy enough.

>vis-à-vis
usage of this expression indicates a disorganized, unsound mind
will NEVER read a DFW book

me

>>7127677
here's the one i have
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Franklin-Library-Walden-Henry-David-Thoreau-100-Greatest-/281802059676

Let me advise you to form the habit of taking some of your solitude with you into society, to learn to be to some extent alone even though you are in company; not to say at once what you think, and, on the other hand, not to attach too precise a meaning to what others say; rather, not to expect much of them, either morally or intellectually, and to strengthen yourself in the feeling of indifference to their opinion, which is the surest way of always practicing a praiseworthy toleration. If you do that, you will not live so much with other people, though you may appear to move amongst them: your relation to them will be of a purely objective character. This precaution will keep you from too close contact with society, and therefore secure you against being contaminated or even outraged by it. Society is in this respect like a fire — the wise man warming himself at a proper distance from it; not coming too close, like the fool, who, on getting scorched, runs away and shivers in solitude, loud in his complaint that the fire burns.

>>6977792

>>6842926
The dude who made the video doesn't know what he's talking about. He is conflating moral judgments with morality itself. Sure, Nietzsche praised the Old Testament as an example of master morality PAR EXCELLENCE but Nietzshe's breakthrough is beyond master morality and slave morality: immoralism -- not being hamstrung by absolute prohibitions or commands. But there is an important distinction that has been brought up in this thread multiple times. Nietzsche makes a distinction between the elite (immoralism good) and the masses (immoralism bad). I believe this distinction is what lies at the heart of his philosophy. Only this nobility, especially philosophers, should be (and can be) outside of traditional morality. It allows Nietzsche to simultaneously have his aristocratic political system while freeing apolitical philosophers and artists from unworthy modes of being (feeling pity for the masses, socialism, Buddhism, nihilism.)

Heidegger was nostalgic for a past that never existed. There has never been a time in history when a significant portion of the population did not view nature as a resource to exploit. "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the earth." What Heidegger vaguely describes as "poietic habitation" has always been restricted to a small number of individuals. The reason people lived simply in pre-industrial societies is because they were poor. There is nothing poetic about spending all day in a field baling hay and dying at thirty from a disease that could have been prevented. There is not much difference between watching a movie with your family and listening to your grandmother tell a story. They are not mutually exclusive anyway. Reading a book is a form of teleportation and it has existed since people have been able to read. Does Heidegger want to go back to a time when most of the population could not even read? What Heidegger calls "awe and wonder" can better be described as bewilderment and confusion. Once you get rid of the complex terminology and reject some of the unfounded assumptions, most of what Heidegger says (in this regard) is pretty hollow.

this is the mood i'm in most of the time

https://youtu.be/F016NbHwszE

Where does nothingness come from?

I recall one particular sunset. It lent an ember to my bicycle hell. Overhead, above the black music of telegraph wires, a number of long, dark-violet clouds lined with flamingo pink hung motionless in a fan-shaped arrangement; the whole thing was like some prodigious ovation in terms of color and form! It was dying, however, and everything else was darkening, too; but just above the horizon, in a lucid, turquoise space, beneath a black stratus, the eye found a vista that only a fool could mistake for the square parts of this or any other sunset. It occupied a very small sector of the enormous sky and had the peculiar neatness of something seen through the wrong end of a telescope. There it lay in wait, a brilliant convolutions, anachronistic in their creaminess and extremely remote; remote but perfect in every detail; fantastically reduced but faultlessly shaped; my marvelous tomorrow ready to be delivered to me.

>>6378667
Your posts are starting to piss me off. I made an example of the last dude who posted posts that pissed me off and he hasn't been back since. Check the archive. I command you to drop your tripcode within the next 24 hours. I swear to God, if I come on here Friday and I see that you are still posting, I am going to forcibly remove your tripcode and fucking humiliate you in front of all of my online friends. And that's the bottom line because Twiggy said so.

https://youtu.be/miFifM43-r8

>Feel free to ignore my question and post your own.
Is there a better snack than roasted & salted sunflower seeds?

>>6348986
>but in reality his knowledge was more of a pool that is kilometers wide but a few millimeters deep.
There is an interview of him admitting exactly this about himself but I don't remember which one it is.

>>6160762
>John Gray
Good recommendation.

>>6116680
also berkeley can't explain or will explain away how the eternal soul and finite soul of humans interact
the simplicity of his theory breaks down the more you examine it and becomes even more complicated than the existence of something else besides mind existing out there

>>5994500
Unless you're broke, avoid that translation.

>>5873789
He is a grumpy old bastard like Peter Hitchens who isn't totally wrong but never says anything interesting. All you have to do is watch All in the Family and use Archie Bunker's thinking-process to come up with identical points of view without having to go through the trouble of reading shitty books and wasting your time.

>>5865423
I really like this picture.

>>5865321
What are you trying to get out of reading them?

>>5843358
Camus is terrible. You should read Nietzsche instead.