/lit/ - Literature

>>6858876
how is it that you are going to teach english without a degree?

>>6856828
examples?

>>6848764
i'm not very knowledgeable on church history, but do we know who peter's immediate successor was, an then his successor, and so on?

what is the orthodox refutation?

op, your chart says that eastern orthodoxy is an offshoot of roman catholicism, but as i understand it it is the other way around. anyone have an opinion on the matter?

>>6841215
marxists aren't the only ones who hate the bourgeois. everyone hates the bourgeois. even the bourgeois hate the bourgeois.

>>6843909
america
>>6843897
nerfherders

>>6843451
haha can you recommend a particular biography?

>>6839885
leopard*

anyone have a pdf of "the leapord"?

jesus christ
friedrich nietzsche
dostoevsky
john fitzgerald kennedy
joan of arc

ivan karamazov's devil is the butler lol

the topic of discussion is love (in an attempted recreation of plato's symposium)

it's not good, op. sorry :(

>>6834234
internet is running painfully slowly. not worth uploading the rest

>>6834067
yeah and it wouldn't do to read just any happy book after the idiot. only the brothers k imo can atone for the tragedy of that book. this is because, atleast this is how i see it, alyosha is a kind of "resurrection" of the prince, a second chance for him at life.[\spoiler]

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books ive printed out:
- yoga of power
- beyond the pleasure principle
- metaphysics of aristotle
- metaphysics of sex
- ride the tiger
- doctrine of awakening
- the orthodox church: introduction to its history, doctrine and spiritual culture
- the will to power
- the ladder of divine ascent
- crisis of the modern world
- introduction to the study of hindu doctrines

no there is always an ulterior motive

unless of course its a philosophy of love or some such thing.

philosophy is too broad a term

mild spoilers in this post:

i hope you haven't started brothers k yet, because you should read the idiot first. brothers k ends on a positive note, whereas the idiot...yeah, there is a serious risk of emotional devestation so be warned.

>>6834035
kinds*

>>6833979
the maybe not so obvious fallacy here is that person "b" in this scenario has many other concerns in his life and many other things that he wants, so that there is only a limited amount of effort he can dedicate to each concern. this is why we have social and governmental institutions: to tackle these minds of problems that require large scale organization and coordination

>>6832978
thank you based anon

>>6826346
is it meant as an introduction to hegel? is it relatively accessible?

>>6832083
i think sex is often just a form of mutual, and sometimes one-sided, masturbation. love, not the sappy romantic variety, but a "sexual love" based on a polarity between the sexes (meaning simply that in the relationship "the man is a man" and "the woman is a woman") represents something higher and more refined than the typical kind of "animal" sexual relations most people experience. this is not at all an original idea, i got this particular formulation of the concept from "the metaphysics of sex" which is a great book.

personally i find unconditional love a la prince myshkin (alternatively read: jesus christ) to be more powerful, but this is probably a matter of personal taste..

>>6832051
i would modify your definition of intellectual to "someone who is preoccupied with ideas, an not necessarily a creator of ideas".

Since Newton was already brought up, can anyone recommend me books that deal specifically with his religious/mystical/occult beliefs?