/lit/ - Literature

>>19586139
>Contemporary

>>19532839
>gay intellectual relationships

>>17601292
>being a Christian means you're happy, content and secure 24/7
Have you learnt nothing from history?

>>17546027
Churchill won the nobel prize?

>>17425863
>Wagner
>liberal

>>17248308
>>tfw youre too intelligent to be incognizant of the fact that religion and in fact any form of spiritualism is impossible, but also too intelligent to just live happily as an atheist
You know, the greatest minds have never lived so pathetically. You think Goethe wasn't "spiritual" in the sense that you use the term? You think any great mind isn't?

Your mistake is thinking you have to be dumb to have a religious or spiritual conviction. As the other anon pointed out, this belief of yours is only the result of midwittery, or education at the level of a midwit.

>>17216477
>Schopenhauer was more of a nihilist than an existentialist
Nihilism and existentialism are less opposed than metaphysics and existentialism.

>>16103017
>Life's not about the goal, it's about the journey

>>16097134
>he doesn't understand what a psychological reformalisation of traditional philosophy and religiosity is

>>16083537
Interesting on the Pythagoreans, I'm personally a vegan but I don't have an ethical opposition to giving an animals healthy and happy lives and then killing them with little pain. As Linkola would say their life is more important than their death. I'd take a free life with a painful death as opposed to enslaved life with a pleasant death.


>>16083624
Apologies I'm from the UK so only getting around to replying now (had to go to sleep). Thanks for stimulating discussion tho

> 1. Neoplatonism is Platonic-Aristotelian
That's interesting how so? I've heard Plotinus was trying to build a theological framework which was more detailed than what Plato provides in the Timaeus.
> 2
So would you say I'd have to read The Rig Veda before the Upanishads? I only have a copy of the latter :'(
> 3. It's a spiritual struggle
Interesting, so there's not much of a collective action you could draw from.Advaita? Like it wouldn't have an opinion on the Kali Yuga? I could see Neoplatonism having more of a political orientation I guess.

Thanks!


>>16083700
Based

>>16078236
>egoism is good! :DDDD
Inferior lifeform.

>mfw Sartre takes lsd
>he's having a bad trip
>turns out his greatest fear was being chased by lobsters as par his lifelong fear of sea-creatures because he saw a scary octopus painting as a child
Beauvoir had quite the catch.

>>16037350
>picture of Goethe
Is this a joke?

>>16020251
>>do some pointless social activity
Imagine being so unmirthful, yet idolising Falstaff because he's literature.

Do you /lit/fags learn nothing from the books you read?

>>15934300
>Feder/--

>>15907092
>the jew-dwarf has arrived
Don't you have work in Nibelheim?

>>15903223
>complex thinking is only for solving problems and you don't feel pleasure by it
Just off yourself already, who doesn't like thinking? And who the fuck could think "it's just for solving problems" like some midwit bugman???

>>15856030
>Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner
Really?

>>15841902
>Aristotle above Plato
>Heidegger above Plato and Kant
We should probably acknowledge how much Heidegger got from the East, and he doesn't go up on the list just for synthesising Eastern ideas into his philosophy. And I say that still thinking he's a four.

>>15813945
>he's one of those fedoras that call all religious depth on the equivalent of fan fics and spider man comics
There'd be no point in telling you to leave.

>>15813306
>>15813404
>Communism is just Christianity but BIG
I hate these retards so fucking much.

>>15805086
>>15805095
fuck.

>>15660036
>drawing

>>15156254
Are you a great writer?