/sa/ - Sāhitya & Itihāsa

/sa/ is not a very happening thread so I wish to change this. I'll post aphorisms (selected and random) everyday.

This first one is the braintwister from sickness unto death by Kierkegaard. About how the self relates to the divine(infinitude) and to itself.

>>331(OP)

the kierkegaard one is less of an aphorism than this.

Beyond good and evil by Friedrich nietzsche, he laments how the roll of food(and its several types) on the temperament of the individual is an often times ignored aspect of cooking.

>>331(OP)

(Im)moral Maxims by Francois de La rochefoucald.

>>340

camus? he did win a nobel prize for it.

As for Kierkegaard? that is simply his danish-ness.

No other nations authors write as eloquently as the franks. Nietzsche understood this well and positioned his style closely with the french -- and it was the some of the most beautiful prose I've read.

>>343

I haven't read sartre yet, reading erotism by bataille(a frenchie) and his writing style is quite similar to mine unironically. I like the bit of scientific hocus-pocus he performs to set up his theses.

>>345

No, not really. He is easily secularised(His philosophy is, much better with christianity in mind and a secularised kierkegaard is akin to a cirmcumscised child, but I digress), which is why his influence far outstrips that of, say aquinas(but really any other theologians). It didn't make Camus, a christian, neither satre, nor foucalt. I haven't finished sickness unto death(yet) but its on hiatus until I finish erotism by bataille and a few more of his other works.

The most important aspect(and perhaps the only important aspect) of this is that I've read Nietzsche prior hand and that is the strongest antidote against christianity in particular and religion in general. I do find them to be similar, Kierkegaard albeit doe-eyed. I hold a lot of respect for him(K) from what I've read, and I only expect this to grow from when I finish either/or.

>>346

I was indifferent to christianity prior to reading K and indifferent now. I like the symbolism and find its shadow in western philosophy to be, frankly, everpresent even in the brightest corners. (Hollingdale in particular, thought a lot of nietzsche's philosophy was influenced by his lutheran upbringing, try the introduction to sprach zarathustra)

>>349

>Next question, do you have any convictions about the world?

Everything is will to power, though prior to Nietzsche I believed the prerogative to beings was to be the 'most prominent in its environment', i.e. to be the master of nature. Its well enough that Nietzsche struck a chord with me, otherwise I'd think a lot like heraclitus.

Taking the will to power into consideration, some have actualised it into 'politics'(the term), I find this to be calling the limb(whom belongs to being) being in itself.

Which is why I find 'all art is political' to be a bit cringe. Its not untrue but I find this separation from the self(that is, the will) to a surrogate 'politics' much like how Christ's heaven('heaven is within us') turned into the Christian's heaven('heaven is beyond us').

I'd write more on my opinion of politics, tomorrow.

>>350

This dilution of will, into politics, is its own weakening. Because really, there exists only one 'good' belief -- Herrenmoral -- but with dilution, its shatters this clarity. (say, one beliefs could be assigned so-and-so, left wing or right wing -- this forces oneself to think within this 'basis' terms. To decide which 'ideology' is 'better' then becomes a matter of deciding whether it is correct to wear a glove on your foot, or a hat on your knees, the answer is of course, neither. This is why there are so many 'ideologies'; We are measuring the sun with a matchstick.)

>>351

not really, I haven't formed by points very well.

Some bataille

>>353

This is the issue really, I do think of something and commit pen to paper. Perhaps the initial reaction is agreeable, but then it really tarnishes, and I find myself unsatisfied at which point I am discouraged to write again. Philosophy isn’t really created like this, behind every idea are loads of notes, that led to its maturation. So I’d suppose not to take it too seriously. Its not really ‘it’.

>>357

I'll have to read more theory

>>358

>how old are you?

I'm particularly careful with giving out personal information. I expect an intelligent anon to be able to mark me down within ~1000 individuals or so, if I am to give actual(but sparse) detail. This is what happened with motivanon, and well, I don't do it because of him, he simply justifies my case. If I do give out information, its contradictory at times.

I will say, I am on the younger side.

>vocation?

I wanted to be a mathematician. Will most likely end up being a statistician.

>why the fuck do you use this website?

there's a genuineness and homeliness to smaller forums. Bhach isn't one of them, but prolly one of the few forums where I can talk to my countrymen.

>What are your thoughts on Industrial Society and its Future

I've done the audiobook actually, I don't have much of an opinion on it. As for the future? either immortality is achieved and we are saved, or tfr catastrophe and we are wiped.

>You can also ask me anything you like

Why this thread?

>>364

<21

I started reading phil in my adolescence.

>because there's someone on this site who uses full sentences and checks on their own thread after posting it

kek, are the standards so low... check out the prog music and music threads in /ent/

>>398

I remember trying the audiobook and giving up one hour in because it was so long. I vaguely remember some hal incandenza guy sperging out over tennis and weed and like saying that he was a linguistic genius

>>331(OP)

I’m soying so hard rn he said the thing

Found this pretty interesting

I’ve been very busy, hopefully that ends in a bit

Interesting commentary on the transgressive nature of war w.r.t killing by bataille.

>>331(OP)

Interesting desu

>>497

Very loosely about ‘aphorisms’ and by ‘loosely’— not at all. I just post passages that I find interesting/worthy of being posted. Some of these can be understood fully within themselves and some require additional context.

>>331(OP)

Interesting commentary on the women as erotic object( to be lusted after) and the profanation of it(to be ‘deflowered’(I like this phrase, it succinctly explains the whole matter)). Perhaps a glance into ugly bastard/NTR.

>>331(OP)

The psychoanalysis of some of the more disturbing crimes of the last century: unit 731 and the holocaust. The germans and the japanese considered themselves sovereign over the jews and the chinese respectively; they had reduced the existence of the jews to rats(the animal-thing) and the japanese had gone further and reduced the chinese to ‘timber’(the purest thing, that which was resultant of work). This belittling allowed the psyche to simultaneously bear and indulge in horrific acts to their umpteenth pleasure. No wonder the faculties of genocide were that fast-tracked as the Natsocs begun to lose; it is in the final days of an addict when he reaches the highest highs of his addictions, until the highest of highs possible: death(an overdose which results in death).