/lit/ - Literature

Most often when I read abstract works of thinking I find myself being too "bone-headed" to entertain the ideas I'm reading of in a deeper way than just eg. forming a schema of the arguments and applying it sort of mechanically. Now, weed or a psyhedelic can do this trick for me but I notice that any benefit is overschadowed in the long term by my person ends up being corrupted. I find it difficult to have the idea of praying or meditating as anything other than a massive LARP nd something so culturally conditioned that I can hardly go at it sincerely.

>>15457842
Diomedes is my favourite character. I've been going through family and work related business thinking
>''what would Diomedes do?''
>''How would Diomedes talk back to my low iq brother?''

>>15457942
I know anon. I'm reading the poem rn, how could I not? ''Gruesome war'' ''Bitter Ares'' These men fought out of honor and disdain for the fear of death, something modern men an hardly understand.
Pic related is Ernst Jünger's helmet.

>>14547250
The other anon misinterpreted Kant and Spengler in order to fit them into his flawed understanding of both.
> since even if the categories of the minds are processing noumenal data, there is no reason to assume that there is any correlation between the noumenal world and the world our mind constructs out of that data.
>no reason to assume that there is any correlation
''Corelation'' is misplaced. I'll explain why:
>since even if the categories of the minds are processing noumenal data
You are grudgingly admitting that the mind processes noumenal data yet wipe it off the table as a sort of afterthought. But this is the point I am getting at: you are right in saying that there is no way for our mind to discern QUALITATIVE corelations between noumena and phenomena. Language makes it seem as if we are talking about two closely related types of relations here, whilst they are actually of a different order. CAUSAL CORELATION is wat Kant affirms. You can look it up in the first 150-something pages of the Kritik der reinen Vernunft. It will tell you that space and time are the a priori conditions for perception sine qua non, but they are not the cause. The cause above(hierarchical)these categories is the noumena, that which Kant indeed had faith in. You have to understand that this did not destroy faith, Kant never said that, but it negates any chance of 'knowing', 'understanding' or even 'getting closer to God through knowledge', which was a typical approach to faith in enlightenment times, even at the time the atom was discovered, people still hoped to have found God(not saying that this was a mistake Kant would make, but it indicated the spirit of a stage in the West's development.
And now that I think about it, this does relate to Spengler in that he agreed on space and NUMERICALS(not a native English speaker, but Kant as Spengler talks about the simple ability to count and discern causation).Kant, according to Spengler, confused numbers with time. Oswald believes the latter to not be subject to numbers and mathematics. He doesn't claim this to be the thing-itself either. It is within the world of Kantian perception, but of a different order than mathematics, it's more mysterious and untouchable. Mathematics are simply the first expession of a people's understanding of time, philosophy also. Each volk tries to demistify time and their own unique experience of it, through culture. This is why Spengler made me truly understand my own culture and it's arts, for the first time in my life. Gott segne Ihn