/lit/ - Literature

very cringy but also not essential.

>>13862957
edward said is pure trash. he just exploits the common need for a political (nominal) equality and assumes a priori that any difference between the east and the west is a a mere construct of tha ebil colonializz. which is obviously an irrational, obtuse claim.

guenon is the same as evola with the difference that evola got at least an official aknowledgment from the pali society of london for his translation and commentary of the triptaka. evola was also read and highly appreciated by authors such as gottfried benn, unlike guenon, whose writings were popular just amon the esoteric fauna in need for some "intellectual" stupefaction.

guenon is the same as evola with the difference that evola got at least an official aknowledgment from the pali society of london for his translation and commentary of the triptaka. also, and evola was read and highly appreciated by authors such as gottfried benn, unlike guenon, whose writings were no more than an intellectual stupefaction.

>>13862565
yes

in high school they made us read/anylize the entire poem in ancient greek.the only other work similarly treated was dante's commedia. i hated both of them but now not a week goes by that i don''t read a book from the iliad or a canto from the commedia.

this:

https://brainstats.com/average-iq-by-country.html

he can't beacuse his philosophy is not rational. how do you "defeat" something that is not even logically argued?

>>13858147
i mean poor in comparison to other countries.

>>13858094
all artists were paid by the aristocrats before 1689 in england, 1789 in france, 1871/1918 in austria and germany. that's why after 1689 the english intellectual and artistic life was so poor. you could have some heroic poor artists from time to time, but that will never be enough.
truth is: democracy destroyed art.

>>13857903
indeed i said "working hypothesis" not "hypothesis".
also nobody considered what i said about the isolated system (you should since im a stem student). the law of conservation states that energy isn't created or destroyed. not in a multiverse hypothesis though, but just in this universe, which we deem an isolated system. this is the whole point.

>>13857302
the actual reason is that in the 19th and 20th centuries the british aristocracy was already poor and cucked, while the bourgeoisie held all the money. and it's a well-known fact that the bourgeoisie doesn't read or care about figurative art or music. at the same time in germany (for example) the aristocracy was in full power until 1918, indeed they had many great writers and artists.

>>13857120
> 1515
i meant 1517

when you don't know what to write about anything, write down its history or the history of the concept. so, in your case you should start with ancient morality, which was
1. the sum of a people's tradition ("ethos"), what hegel calls "sittlichkeit".
2. the hammurabi code (lex talionis).
then you talk about the impact of christianity in the western civilization, which was
1. egualitarianism.
2. acceptance of pain due to the promise of an afterlife reward.
3. fedual society and its intrinsic contradiction with christianity. if you have a patrician taste you will talk about the ghibellins, if your have an uber-patrician taste and knowledge you will talk about the co-presence of both moralities (christian and ghibelline) in dante's commedia.
then you talk about renaissance, which was broadly extra-moral, you talk about machiavellian pragmatism, florentina libertas, and the ethics of magnanimity. you can briefely explain it through the historical example of pope julius ii, just to make your reader take a breath from theoretical argumentation.
then as a rossinian crescendo you take a synchronical view on 1515, 1789 and 1815. the first date represents the rise of populism and a return to christian morality against renaissance rome. the second date represents the same thing (democracy), but under a kantian morality, that is a secularization of the christian one (since it implies all humans are born equal). the third date represents the birth of the bourgeois political correctness ("let's say we are all equal, even if factually we aren't) , which lasts until today.

>>13856992
in my opinion kafka and borges are slightly but essentially different. borges' taste leans towards "the artificial", "the made up". kafka is a pure irrationalist. borges is an erudite hedonist, kafka is a deeply religious man.

>>13854730
i wouldn't say they do the same thing. buzzati wrote psychological novels, he essentially belongs to the french naturalism. borges is much more of a "lyricist" or a philosopher.

>>13856840
you probably took a couple minutes of your life by writing that post and solving the captcha. the post was an autistic mediocre "get a life" which even redditors don't do anymore. all of your posts had this level of conventionality. you got blasted (i'm answering you just because im in train) and now you dare say you gave me a spanking?

the one written by bertrand russell. its title should be "history of western philosophy" if i recollect well.

>>13856628
>>13856792
you quoted me, poor autistic brainlet, also getting personal, not the other way around. but that's the proof that naming works, since i probably btfo you in some other thread and you are still seething.

>>13856767
so, why are you stalkering me?

>>13856717
i want you to attribute me what i say until im on here. when i won't be on here anymore, you will not see my name as well unless some psycho like you steals it.

>>13856628
nice stockholm syndrome coping.
im fine, don't worry about me, unlike you i won't be here forever

the law of conservation of energy requires an isolated system (such as the universe) and the "multiverse" is just a cosmological working hypothesis. they are not contradictory tho.

>>13856513
this but unironically