/lit/ - Literature

>>2727476

1. A race is an extended family which has been more or less endogamous for some period of time. For example, the rate of gene flow from without into the Ashkenazi gene pool has been about 1% for a couple of millennia. There Ashkenazim are a race.

2. There are an indefinite number of races, just are an indefinite number of neighborhoods in New York City. The notion of family resemblance is key.

Who was the last great philosopher?

>The solution of the problem you see in life is a way of living which makes what is problematic disappear. The fact that life is problematic means that your life does not fit life's shape. So you must change your life, and once it fits the shape, what is problematic will disappear. But don't we have the feeling that someone who doesn't see a problem there is blind to something important, indeed to what is most important of all? Wouldn't I like to say he is living aimlessly--just blindly like a mole as it were; and if he could only see, he would see the problem? Or shouldn't I say: someone who lives rightly does not experience the problem as sorrow, hence not after all as a problem, but rather as joy, that is so to speak as a bright halo round his life, not a murky background.

Go away.

Welp.

>>2488409
Yes, because I am God.

The temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say, its eternal survival after death, is not only in no way guaranteed, but this assumption in the first place will not do for us what we always tried to make it do. Is a riddle solved by the fact that I survive for ever? Is this eternal life not as enigmatic as our present one? The solution of the riddle of life in space and time lies outside space and time.

>>2471409
I'm sorry, language does not exist that can fully describe the depths of my thoughts.

Good afternoon /lit/. I'm really quite curious about the works of the great Ludwig Wittgenstein... I'm still fairly new to philosophy and literature, but my love for it is ever growing. I've read, so far, the dialogues of Plato save for his Republic, a good bit of Dostoyevsky, and some Nietzsche.

This man seems incredibly interesting to me as well. Where would you recommend I begin, /lit/? Shall I simply start with his Tractatus?

Greatest philosopher of all time.

Discuss.

Wittgenstein is so fucking gay.

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