/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.17933567]

he was right about everything bros..

[Anonymous No.17933677]

>>17933567
He was certainly right about the optimal length of a moustache.

[Anonymous No.17933683]

>>17933567
Not quite, but fuck he came close

[Anonymous No.17933700]

>>17933567
Yes he was, and once you come to this realization you won’t ever be able to go back. He singlehandedly turned me away from Traditionalism, made me despise Christianity despite crying in the name of Christ in my prayers, made me revile moralizers and, most beautifully, made me love and dream about the Greeks

[Anonymous No.17934623]

>>17933567
Literal walking contradiction.

[Anonymous No.17934721]

>>17934623
And that's a good thing

[Anonymous No.17934767]

>>17934623
t. allergic to nuance

[Anonymous No.17934772]

Nietzschean dogmatics annoy me furiously.

They don't know how to think for themselves, they just take from him shit-tier "omg natural values of life are power, the Greeks knew this! Universal values are bullshit". They don't even want to hold Nietzsche as philosophy, they just want to follow him like a dog.

[Anonymous No.17934773]

I got kicked out of Barnes & Noble for moving all of Nietzsche’s works into the poetry section

[Anonymous No.17934789]

>>17933567
rapture's video on N's idea of rhetoric is actually pretty good desu:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kH9rKcoGWJU&ab_channel=TheCatilineConspiracy

[Anonymous No.17934798]

>>17933700
>despite crying in the name of Christ in my prayers,
Lol gay

[Anonymous No.17935012]

>>17934772
I'll admit that for a long time I treated Nietzsche like a theologian would, studying his works as if they held the answer to everything and the secret to modernity. However, the latter did turn out true. Nietzsche is without a doubt the most important philosopher in modernity, so it's no wonder why so many who engage with philosophy gravitate towards him.

[Anonymous No.17935038]

>>17933567
He resented aristocratic sincere philosophers like Mainländer and stole their ideas. He contradicted himself many times. But using cheap insults against dead philosophers who lived and died by their philosophies is a terribly scummy thing to do.

[Anonymous No.17935059]

>>17933700
Cringe.

[Anonymous No.17935071]

>>17933567
>another German writer who has been memed into god like status by Germans

[Anonymous No.17935079]

>>17935012
>I'll admit that for a long time I treated Nietzsche like a theologian would, studying his works as if they held the answer to everything and the secret to modernity.

Imagine thinking theologians have any answer, except for the standard one that their religion is completely flawless despite evidence to the contrary

[Anonymous No.17935086]

>>17935079
If you cant appreciate theological wisdom you are a midwit. The seven deadly sins are on point.

[Anonymous No.17935346]

>>17933700
Very based

[Anonymous No.17935348]

>>17934789
Based. Would love to see him make more vids on Nietzsche/any other major thinker.

[Anonymous No.17935361]

>>17934789
I'm a couple minutes in, and does he go any further than the high quality summary he's already doing?

[Anonymous No.17935512]

>>17935361
>I watched 2 of the 11 minutes of the video summary of the Wikipedia summary of a philosopher who wrote 10+ books, is it worth continuing
Dammit /lit/

[Anonymous No.17935532]

>>17934773
This is pretty kek regardless

[Anonymous No.17935547]

Can you imagine this happening today?

[Anonymous No.17935557]

>>17933700
Very based.

[Anonymous No.17935604]

>>17933700
Very gay

[Anonymous No.17935708]

>>17935012
I do not think Nietzsche can't be followed dogmatically, at least if you have read him.
I believe many gravitate towards Nietzsche because he thoroughly and eloquently articulates a mindset, which a comparatively small section of the population arrives at after spending a couple of decades in modern Western society.

[Anonymous No.17935725]

>>17935708
>he thoroughly and eloquently articulates a mindset, which a comparatively small section of the population arrives at
What is it?
I've seen so many different readings of Nietzsche I don't know anymore

[Anonymous No.17935852]

>>17935725
Meant to reply to >>17934772 originally.
I do not think there is one and it seems to become pretty clear in Zarathustra that Nietzsche never intended there to be one. Personally, I think the core of his critique - the silliness of morals and religious type dogmatism, rejection of academic ivory towers, and his postulation to create your own moral system - has a broad appeal that still carries the same power today as it did in the 19th century. From that base, everyone carves their own niche reading him. But who knows if even that interpretation is commonplace.

[Anonymous No.17936837]

>>17933700
nice

[Anonymous No.17936867]

>>17935725
that people today are sick and inferior to the people of ages past.

[Anonymous No.17936876]

>>17933567
Shit OP
>discussions of philosophy that take place on /lit/ should be based around specific philosophical works to which posters can refer.

[Anonymous No.17938340]

>>17935547
very feminine fingers

[Anonymous No.17938405]

>>17933700
you must be 18 years old to post here

[Anonymous No.17938417]

>>17933700
based

[Anonymous No.17939670]

>>17938417
>>17936837
>>17935604
>>17938405
>>17935346

>upvote
>downvote

[Anonymous No.17939678]

>>17939670
Oh... Reddit... I get it now

[Anonymous No.17939723]

>>17939678
no it's not just "reddit"
They're not adding anything other than an upvote/downvote. It's one of the things many people here hate about reddit. They're doing the exact thing.

[Anonymous No.17940306]

>>17933700
kek what are you 14 and going through an emo depressive phase?

[Anonymous No.17940314]

>>17933700
Very based

[Anonymous No.17940317]

>>17939723
downvoted

[Anonymous No.17940323]

>>17935547
My little sister went to a Catholic school run by nuns and was quite literally told by a nun doing sex ed (kek!) that masturbation caused blindness.
My mom was fucking furious.