/lit/ - Literature

>>20868142
shaping your life around your opinions < shaping your opinions around your life

>>19999673
the sickness unto death
you are spirit

>>20015839

“And so when the generation, which itself desired to level and to be emancipated, to destroy authority and at the same time itself, has, through the scepticism of the principle association, started the hopeless forest fire of abstraction; when as a result of levelling with this scepticism, the generation has rid itself of the individual and of everything organic and concrete, and put in its place 'humanity' and the numerical equality of man and man: when the generation has, for a moment, delighted in this unlimited panorama of abstract infinity, unrelieved by even the smallest eminence, undisturbed by even the slightest interest, a sea of desert; then the time has come for work to begin, for every individual must work for himself, each for himself. No longer can the individual, as in former times, turn to the great for help when he grows confused. That is past; he is either lost in the dizziness of unending abstraction or saved for ever in the reality of religion. Perhaps very many will cry out in despair, but it will not help them--already it is too late...Nor shall any of the unrecognizable presume to help directly or to speak directly or to teach directly at the head of the masses, in order to direct their decisions, instead of giving his negative support and so helping the individual to make the decision which he himself has reached; any other course would be the end of him, because he would be indulging in the short-sighted compassion of man, instead of obeying the order of divinity, of an angry, yet so merciful, divinity. For the development is, in spite of everything, a progress because all the individuals who are saved will receive the specific weight of religion, its essence at first hand, from God himself. Then it will be said: 'behold, all is in readiness, see how the cruelty of abstraction makes the true form of worldliness only too evident, the abyss of eternity opens before you, the sharp scythe of the leveller makes it possible for every one individually to leap over the blade--and behold, it is God who waits. Leap, then, into the arms of God'. But the 'unrecognizable' neither can nor dares help man, not even his most faithful disciple, his mother, or the girl for whom he would gladly give his life: they must make the leap themselves, for God's love is not a second-hand gift. And yet the 'unrecognizable' neither can nor dares help man, not even his most faithful disciple, his mother, or the girl for whom he would gladly give his life: they must make the leap themselves, for God's love is not a second-hand gift. And yet the 'unrecognizable' (according to his degree) will have a double work compared with the 'outstanding' man (of the same degree), because he will not only have to work continuously, but at the same time labour to conceal his work.”

The uniqueness of the unique individual, yes.

>>15128332
I have read philosophy since I picked it up at age 14, I immediately thought my life was meaningless, that what I thought was true wasnt. But as I read through the years I go back to one thing.

"I know that I know nothing"

I myself cannot fathom or even slightly understand how everything came to be, how the universe first sparked. I thought how there must be something greater.

Through the words of Jesus Christ, whether you believe or not. He is not only my savior, but is the greatest philosopher of all. In his presence, your knees become weak, your eyes fill with tears, and your sinks, he is almighty and he is glory of all.

I do not have to prove any existence, I have taken the leap of faith

Plato
Tertullian
Hume
Hamann
Luther
Pascal
Kierkegaard
Kant
James
Wittgenstein
Plantinga

I don’t know much about fideism or these guys, but does this seem accurate for a faithpill chart? Did I miss anyone? Which works should be included?

>>14564661
I'll do it with one word:
Repetition.

>>14507376
"no"

>>14478821
No.

are you thinking of becoming an assistant professor?

>>14145894
I'm a Kierkegaardian; I use Christianity to find meaning.

His TRUE rival is Kierkegaard

>>14138131
How he truly has a grasp on fear and anxiety. How he truly has a grasp on the meaning of life. How he understands faith with no reason for searching rationality.

Lots of cool shit on him, dude practically made words never before used. I mean this guy invented shit we say today. Kierkegaard is literally chad, he gave up young danish pussy just so he can fuck other people and retain love for her.

>>14135600
His books have been waiting to be read by you for 150+ years.

>>14118055
*blocks your path*

>Got your call, i'm in. Not to dare is to lose oneself

What if grace doesn’t come as a gift bestowed from beyond, but in moments of self-forgetfulness, moments in which, by whatever means and processes, the Ego simply disappears? Questions about the afterlife are not answered in this kind of thinking, but so what? If one isn’t afraid to live, why should one be afraid to die? And even if one is afraid, again, so what? Our courage and our fear will not change the fact of our dying.

>>14048428
I don't have to prove anything, I took the leap of faith anon.

You have read Kierkegaard by now, right anon?

Kierkegaard is the best philosophy.

>A people’s government is the true picture of hell. For even if one could last out its torment, it would still be a relief if one got permission to be alone; but the torment is that ‘‘the others’’ tyrannise over one.

>I felt a real Christian satisfaction in the fact that, if there were no other, there was one man who (several years before existence set the race another lesson to learn) made a practical effort on a small scale to learn the lesson of loving one’s neighbor and alas! Got at the same time a frightful insight into what an illusion Christendom is, and (a little later, to be sure) an insight also into what a situation the simpler classes suffered themselves to be seduced by paltry-newspaper writers, whose struggle or fight for equality (since it is in the service of a lie) cannot lead to any other result but to prompt the privileged classes in self-defence to stand proudly aloof from the common man, and to make the common man insolent in his forwardness.

>The truth is always in the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because as a rule the minority is made up of those who actually have an opinion, while the strength of the majority is illusory, formed of that crowd which has no opinion — and which therefore the next moment (when it becomes clear that the minority is the stronger) adopts the latter's opinion, which now is in the majority, i.e. becomes rubbish by having the whole retinue and numerousness on its side, while the truth is again in a new minority.

>>13836983
Read Kierkegaard