E. M. Cioran
Re: E. M. Cioran
Point some out then! I came across E.M Cioran by chance, in fact I can't remember how I found him.
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Re: E. M. Cioran
David Hume is one of my favourite philosophers, but to appreciate his works takes a bit of a sustained effort, so I don't think he'll suit you.Lozzer wrote:Point some out then!
Anyway, I merely wanted to reply to your take on Cioran ("he's fucking fantastic") by saying what I think of him.
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops. - Stephen J. Gould
Re: E. M. Cioran
He's good, and I agree with him a lot; but he's boring.David Hume is one of my favourite philosophers, but to appreciate his works takes a bit of a sustained effort, so I don't think he'll suit you.
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Re: E. M. Cioran
Read Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Nietzsche.
Straw Dogs is very pessimistic and Orwellian. I'm not so sure what I think about 'Gaia Theory' either. Not that its not a good read.
Straw Dogs is very pessimistic and Orwellian. I'm not so sure what I think about 'Gaia Theory' either. Not that its not a good read.
Libertarianism: The belief that out of all the terrible things governments can do, helping people is the absolute worst.
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Re: E. M. Cioran
You seem pretty much obsessed with the absolute lows of human history, so I'd recommend Hume --> Kant --> Hegel --> Feuerbach --> Marx. After that you should understand why communism seemed like a pretty good idea at the time. Then some Nietzsche and Heinlein, and the same should be true for fascism (though not anti-Semitism, that's pretty much late medieval). You might find yourself actually agreeing with some stuff you're not comfortable with, stuff you know intuitively you shouldn't agree with. I'd suggest Hannah Arendt to put it into perspective again. Then, if you're up for some more abstract stuff, try Wittgenstein, Tsang Tse and Ibn Tufail.Lozzer wrote:Point some out then! I came across E.M Cioran by chance, in fact I can't remember how I found him.
Re: E. M. Cioran
JOZeldenrust wrote:You seem pretty much obsessed with the absolute lows of human history, so I'd recommend Hume --> Kant --> Hegel --> Feuerbach --> Marx. After that you should understand why communism seemed like a pretty good idea at the time. Then some Nietzsche and Heinlein, and the same should be true for fascism (though not anti-Semitism, that's pretty much late medieval). You might find yourself actually agreeing with some stuff you're not comfortable with, stuff you know intuitively you shouldn't agree with. I'd suggest Hannah Arendt to put it into perspective again. Then, if you're up for some more abstract stuff, try Wittgenstein, Tsang Tse and Ibn Tufail.Lozzer wrote:Point some out then! I came across E.M Cioran by chance, in fact I can't remember how I found him.
Thank you, that's what I wanted!
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