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Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 20:01:54 No.7296055 View Reply Report Delete

Schopenhauer said...
>“One can never read too little of bad, or too much of good books: bad books are intellectual poison; they destroy the mind. In order to read what is good one must make it a condition never to read what is bad; for life is short, and both time and strength limited.”

What are the poisonous popular books that I should avoid?

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Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 20:03:44 No.7296069 Report Delete

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>>7296055
He never said popular fam, he said bad books.

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Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 20:08:35 No.7296089 Report Delete

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>>7296069
>being retarded

The World as Will and Representation for sure

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Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 20:11:00 No.7296100 Report Delete

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>>7296089
>lean green meme texting

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Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 20:14:38 No.7296114 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>7296117 >>7296123 >>7296130 >>7296135

God Delusion, Selfish Gene, Moral Landscape, Atlas Shrugged, Guns Germs and Steel, The Myth of Sisyphus, etc.

The list is literally endless as more are written all the time.

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Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 20:16:06 No.7296117 Report Delete

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>>7296114
Whats bad about Guns, Germs, Steel?

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Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 20:17:23 No.7296123 Report Delete

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>>7296114
I'm pretty much certain you haven't read all of those

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Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 20:19:34 No.7296130 Report Delete

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>>7296114
GGS is far from revelatory but not as bad as some people seem to think, basically correct just not all that strong or revealing of a thesis.

The Myth of Sisyphus was p good

I have a pdf of the Moral Landscape somewhere and I keep meaning to read it to see if it's really as bad as people say Harris is

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Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 20:20:05 No.7296132 Report Delete

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>>7296055
Ivanhoe and all romantic literature.

Art for arts sake nigguh

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Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 20:20:32 No.7296135 Report Delete

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>>7296114
Not even being edgy rn but The Myth of Sisyphus is pretty useless
>what if we shouldn't kill ourselves...because we enjoy being alive?

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Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 20:24:05 No.7296144 Report Delete

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>>7296135
If that's all you got from it that says more about you than about the essay.
It's like saying War and Peace is about Russia. Well, yes but really, no

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Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 20:24:41 No.7296147 Report Delete

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>>7296135
easy to say in postmodern liberalism but at the time and place philosophy was actually taken seriously by the general public, so the absurdist nihilism camus is addressing was very distressful to a considerable number of people

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Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 20:25:04 No.7296150 Report Delete

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If people here take Shoppy seriously, then certainly /lit/.

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Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 20:32:49 No.7296179 Report Delete

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>>7296132
>All romantic literature
Oh boy

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