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Pls no John Green.
u trollin' or what? this is just a list of the different definitions of "culture":
- An ideal state, such as "he is very cultured"
- A process by which meaning is created
- A vague way of describing all of the ways that social practices tie a group of people together and define them.
>>8118424
You dirt pleb, what don't you get?
The author is saying culture as represented by Long Revolution is not entirely correct. Not only is culture evocative in our everyday routines, but it permeates every thread of society and can even be seen influencing events that would have been thought to be exclusive.
if we're talking about text, not prose, then it's some shitty legal shit that employs extremely dense language that's 25% legal definitions and 25% references to existing or proposed laws
or some coding guides since I don't know anything about coding
basically anything that's written about a narrow subject matter by experts for experts, if you're not an expert it's like staring at a brick wall
I do enjoy reading stuff like that for that specific experience
Are there any philosophical writings that describe overcoming permanent physical injury?
>>8118095
Basically Nietzsche's life and work.He failed though.
What's your ailment, friend?
>>8118095
Basically Hemingway's life and work.
He failed though.
What's your ailment, friend?
>Are there any philosophical writings that describe overcoming permanent physical injury?
Socrates' exaltation of the soul over the body.
Is he any good?
He is excellent
>>8117787
Remind me of this mans name.
>>8117851
Chekvov
What do you guys think about this book? It's been called "the first great millennial novel," and a lot of people agree in saying that it really is the defining voice of generation Y.
I just finished it and would love to hear what /lit/ has to say. Does it live up to to being crowned such a canonical title? Tell me about any part of your experience, whether it's on the prose, plot, characters, etc.
>>8117583
is shit.
>>8117585
Could you maybe elaborate?
>>8117590
its a turd.
I just finished Don Quixote and had a good cry over the ending
Pound's poems.
the only book to make me cry was Where the Red Fern Grows
>>8117423
the Dead in Dubliners
Well, lads?
>>8116980
You could fit four in the back of her! *buzzer*
>>8116980
Literally nothing unexpected has ever happened to me as a result of being here.
>>8116980
my dick grew about 6 inches
Did too much interracial, which ruined it for me.
>>8116175
Gira didn't do it
>>8116304
What does this mean?
Do you think DFW was a good professor? The syllabus of the course looks shit.
>>8115972
>420C Stevenson Hall
DUDE WEED LMAO
I think he tried to go for absolute basics to teach the principles of LA, which kind of makes sence.
>thinking he put any effort into teaching when all he wanted to do was write
It's not like he taught at a great school anyway
>marry higgins clark
dfw was the original avant-teen
Where leaves determinism punishment?
Given that we are all the products of our genetics and our upbringing - that even our faculties for self improvement, our capacity to dedicate ourselves to live a moral life, our dedication to ethical standards are given to us, not genuinely achieved - how should we approach the question of punishment? How could anybody truly, morally deserve anything in a world where none of us are the prime mover unmoved, the uncaused cause of ourselves?
Do the answers to these questions have consequences for our justice systems and criminal law?...
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Smilansky has a final chapter on this in Free Will and Illusion. He basically says the de facto position of philosophy at this point is incompatibilist determinism, and then goes "so uh, what now?" His answer is basically that the reigning justice model, or the best one we have or something, isn't about fairness*. If it were, it's clearly not "fair" to give sentences to people who didn't "earn" them (in the sense of desert), because no one can ever earn anything because free agency is impossible.
* or about brute utilitarian...
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>>8115831
>He basically says the de facto position of philosophy at this point is incompatibilist determinism
Well that's empirically wrong - about 70% of philosophers are deterministic compatibilists, and about 10% libertarians. Why would he say such a thing?
>>8115559
>Where leaves determinism punishment?
noice grmr
What's your opinion on better than food book reviews?
I like a lot of the books he does but I get nothing out of his videos.
I've watched every single one of his videos multiple times. He single handedly got me into reading, thanks to my friend from steam linking me to his youtube channel. I've bought a ton of the books he's reviewed.
>>8115167
Pretentiousness personified. Not a surprise since he majored in film.
Hey /lit/
So my grandmother recently died and left us a cabin in her will which is located just outside of Haugesund in Norway. My parents and sibling have no use for it so I've decided to live there for the next year to focus on my writing.
Has anybody here dong something similar?
What tips do you have?
Pic related: it looks similar to this and overlooks the water
>>8113600
Set up a daily regimen of fitness and chores
Get a local job to break up your day, like chopping wood or painting fences.
Participate in local activities
That way you are participating in life and ideas will come to you, don't go full cocoon mode.
>>8113600also sorry for grandmum
>>8113606
I am going to go cocoon mode for the first few months at least, having worked full-time for years now without a break. Also for fitness yes I will continue to jog and also swim.
Has anyone managed to rebut Bertrand Russell's "Why I am Not a Christian?"
Here are some excerpts
>There is no reason to suppose that the world had a beginning at all. The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our imagination. Therefore, perhaps, I need not waste any more time upon the argument about the First Cause.
> If you say, as more orthodox theologians do, that in all the laws which God issues he had a reason for giving those laws rather than others...
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Wittgenstein did when he called all of Russell's non mathematical writings utter garbage which no one should ever read.
>>8113372
How exactly is that a rebuttal?
Well, that's wrong Russell. There is such a thing as avoiding the occasion of sin. In other words, not tempting the Lord. Secondly, that confessor would be putting temptation before the nun, however free of evil intent he'd be. Should I read the rest of OP's post? With such a worthless beginning, no.
Attempt (and subsequently fail) to disprove this meme ranking
Russia
Greece (Classical)
///POWER GAP///
England
France
Ireland/Germany
America
Italy
Spain
///POWER GAP///
Irrelevant
English for me, thanks
>>8112525
France = Russia > America = England > Germany > Ireland = Italy > Spain > Everybody Else
>>8112549
Spain = Argentina
>"He ate the last of the eggs and wiped the plate with the tortilla and ate the tortilla and drank the last of the coffee and wiped his mouth and looked up and thanked her."
How can he keep getting away with shit like this?
I'd love to see the quality of the writing in the novels you've published. Oh wait...
>>8111105
>literally choosing a line that has "tortilla" in it.
Try harder anon.
>>8111139
Most self-respecting writers wouldn't publish literal shit. The problem is that John Green isn't a self-respecting """""""author"""""""".
So /lit/, what pulled you out of your first existential crisis?
>>8106382
religious existentialism
>>8106382
other crises
>>8106382
Ignoring it and then losing interest.
