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Anonymous Wed Feb 26 17:40:37 2020 No.14793978 [Reply] [Original]

Does he have the best prose of any philosopher?

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 26 17:44:24 2020 No.14793995 File: 48 KB, 474x528, 88043162d9ac154c5f4d18863bd9080702b36a7ba40567cd8cf935146d863ebd.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>14793978 Herd u talkin sum shiet, Kierkegaard.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 26 18:34:18 2020 No.14794220 >>14793978 No. It's just poetic and vaguely biblical. Good Prose should effortlessly and enjoyable plop the form of its meaning into your brain.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 26 18:38:35 2020 No.14794249 >>14794220 >plop the form of its meaning into your brain So the impression I’m getting from your prose is that good prose should take a shit inside your head. You might wanna take your own advice, buddy

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 26 18:42:48 2020 No.14794279 >>14794249 He already has shit for brains so don't worry

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 26 18:47:28 2020 No.14794296 File: 173 KB, 527x675, William_James_b1842c.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>14793978 Pic related has my vote.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 26 18:52:02 2020 No.14794313 >>14794296 This or Plato, varieties of religious experience is beautiful, hard to imagine that it was originally spoken when it reads so well

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 26 18:58:35 2020 No.14794348 >>14793978 What's amazing is that his prose is fucking terrible, and he's literally only popular in America. Like you can get a bachelors in philosophy in Denmark and encounter him all of twice.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 26 19:07:12 2020 No.14794394 Bergson and Nietzsche also give him a run for his money >>14794348 Ahh thats probably true of most modern philosophers though. You can probably get a bachelors degree of philosophy without touching Heidegger or Wittgenstein either

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 26 20:24:57 2020 No.14794731 >>14793978 yes

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 26 21:52:26 2020 No.14795135 >>14793978 >thinks trash pseudo- Hegelian sophistry is good prose. rethink your position. Cioran out strips everyone by a country mile.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 26 23:03:39 2020 No.14795413 >>14795135 >pseudo-Hegelian >hated Hegel ?

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 26 23:08:29 2020 No.14795443 >>14794394 For me Nietzsche was more of a poet\absolute propaganda force of nature

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 26 23:10:19 2020 No.14795456 >>14794313 >>14794296 I would recommend reading Japan:an attempt at interpretation. The author has a similar prose style and take on things and wrote from around the same time.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 26 23:10:46 2020 No.14795461 File: 240 KB, 873x873, Sartre.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>14795443 For prose, you know our boi

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 27 01:51:52 2020 No.14796029 File: 26 KB, 592x512, 1570570060132.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>14795456 Thanks mate, i'll check it out.

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 27 02:18:16 2020 No.14796101 >>14794296 English has many candidates - Bacon, Hobbes, Locke, Hume, Mill, etc.

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 27 02:20:14 2020 No.14796106 >>14795461 The man was on so much speed he keeps repeating himself

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 27 02:22:20 2020 No.14796112 >>14795413 Come on guy, you know that half the hegelians hated hegel.

Anonymous Thu Feb 27 02:22:55 2020 No.14796115
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>>14793978
I say this as an utter, complete, hopeless Kierkegaard fanboy with several thousands of pages of his writings on my bookshelf--Nietzsche is a far superior prose stylist. Honestly, Nietzsche's prose is on par with any writer's; he's really good. Big K is obviously the greatest philosopher, but I wouldn't even say his prose is one of his strengths.

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 27 02:25:16 2020 No.14796117 >>14795461 Pseud trash

Anonymous Thu Feb 27 02:26:01 2020 No.14796118

>>14796029
Hope you enjoy it, I actually wrote an independent paper on it for a class. Im not particularly interested In japan, but the form of discourse was mesmerizing and was a very satisfying application of early 20th century sociology and well as religious understanding. Funnilly enough, it actually has one of the better short form explanations of high buhdist metaphysics in it. But the rest of it was a delight too. He has a real alice in wonderland serendipity tone to it.

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 27 04:04:47 2020 No.14796321 >>14794220 not really. interptetation skills required. batteries not included.

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 27 08:03:08 2020 No.14797014 File: 128 KB, 888x888, 1579662972693.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Kant

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 27 08:05:55 2020 No.14797018 >>14796115 >greatest philosopher I love Kierkegaard but come on

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 27 08:11:20 2020 No.14797040 >>14796118 Not him, but to what extent does it still apply today? How biased is he?

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 27 13:02:49 2020 No.14798161 >>14797018 name one better

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 27 13:14:34 2020 No.14798209 Schopenhauer

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 27 13:50:35 2020 No.14798368 >>14798161 Kant

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 27 14:15:19 2020 No.14798459 >>14793978 >14793978 Nope Deleuze does

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 27 14:15:45 2020 No.14798464 File: 221 KB, 540x622, bro.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>14798368

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 27 14:16:35 2020 No.14798465 File: 1.95 MB, 1364x764, Kant-deaf-fuhrer.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>14798368 This

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 27 14:46:04 2020 No.14798593 File: 279 KB, 1200x1412, 1200px-Kant_gemaelde_1[1].jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>14798465 daily reminder

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 27 16:35:22 2020 No.14799212 >>14796101 >Mill >good writing damn anglo bugmen

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 27 16:39:57 2020 No.14799237 >>14798459 Guattari does

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 27 16:48:10 2020 No.14799281 >>14795461 Really he's hit or miss. I rather enjoyed Words, and his War Journals are very good.

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 27 16:49:29 2020 No.14799288 File: 12 KB, 128x123, 640827252946370561.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Join the based /x/ schizocord https://discord.gg/v8mqzwc

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 27 16:49:48 2020 No.14799289 File: 467 KB, 821x834, external-content.duckduckgo.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] This includes both his short stories and philosophical essays.

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 27 16:51:31 2020 No.14799299 >>14793978 Probably Schopenhauer, or as another anon's already said, Bergson.

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 27 17:03:51 2020 No.14799374 >>14793978 On which criterion? Beauty or clarity?

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 27 17:05:32 2020 No.14799381 >>14795135 Cioran's pretty good

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 27 17:09:50 2020 No.14799398 File: 2.14 MB, 1920x2353, Painting_of_David_Hume.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>14793978 A lot of people find him dull but Hume gets my vote for his unmatched clarity and near-perfect command of English.

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 27 17:15:59 2020 No.14799423 >>14796101 Browne, Burton

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 27 17:27:06 2020 No.14799490 >>14798465 lmao remember that time Hamann btfo the first critique before it was even published

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 27 17:55:41 2020 No.14799660 File: 58 KB, 302x348, Screenshot from 2020-02-27 13-53-25.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>14793978

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 27 18:01:46 2020 No.14799693 >>14799423 Brilliant prose artists, but not philosophers in the standard sense.

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 27 21:56:40 2020 No.14800894 >>14798161 Camus

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 27 22:25:52 2020 No.14801020 >>14794220 yeah, fuck the labour of the negative BASED REDDITOR

Anonymous Thu Feb 27 22:32:55 2020 No.14801043

>>14794220
Then almost all philosophers have terrible prose since it's their art to tirelessly draw out what could be summarized in a few sentences to pages length and convoluted with the most academic and or bourgeois/pretentious style wording and character.

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 27 22:49:05 2020 No.14801121 >>14795135 >pseudo-Hegelian do you know nothing about Kierk or what

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