What makes us human? We tell stories. I believe great works of literature tell the emotional tale of human existence as we try to make sense of our existence and the world we live in, thus I consider fiction a distilled form of truth, coming from the depth of our subconscious mind.
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This was an interesting video and I think it's a valuable list. Thank you. My only complaint is, What? No Tanizaki? I am very fond of The Key and The Diary of a Mad old Man especially. Tanizaki was quite brilliant in my opinion.
I embrace failure, but toxic people who are "imagining for you" says you aren't. They "think for you", "imagine for you", "speaks for you and about you" all of which does not come from you. If it does not come from me then it's not from me.
I really can’t stand when people say “begs the question” when they mean raises a question. Begging the question is a logical fallacy that has nothing to do with raising a question
My favorite Japanese novel is "Silence" Shusaku Endo. Interesting how he captured Japanese peculiarities through Western eyes and in the process the reader comes to understand the Japanese essence better. It's like the saying "One does not know their own language until they learn another" manifested into a book.
First of all, thanks for the wonderful video. Helped me to understand Kafka more. Kafka has lived his life well in spite of his conditions or tragedies of life. Specially the last year of his life, spent with a girl child who lost her doll in a park. It shows that, even though, he didn’t had a family, he can raise children and taught them the values of life. What we suffer or what we loose is not the end but perhaps the start of next phase of our life. 🍀
I agree the stoics can have no future in a literary sense but does Chekhov admire Stoicism or? *” "The Stoics, whom you are parodying, were remarkable people, but their doctrine crystallized two thousand years ago and has not advanced, and will not advance, an inch forward, since it is not practical or living. “ I fucking love that lmao
Your channel deserves far more attention. You provide, for free, content that makes public education regarding literature and philosophy look like an absolute joke. Thanks for being someone that contributes something of actual value to society.
Nice video Jung is overrated everything is overrated in Western culture. I came from Eastern culture for our culture Jung's philosophy was primitive. I was never impressed! our philosophers and their theories went beyond 3D.
The ultimate question that no philosopher, scientist, prophet or whoever that hitherto analyzed life and nature to conclude what is RIGHT, has answered is: What is the food that guarantees immortality? The person who answers this question correctly would remain alive to explain it to everybody else and han (she/he) requires no other proof for its accuracy than that han is here forever. More importantly, if this is possible, then you cannot expect a clue to it from any DEAD PERSON's work (scientist, philosopher, prophet or whoever), as the "Übermensch" who had the slightest clue to it would have followed it to the hilt and remained here to explain it to all others. If it is possible to derive the mathematical model of the mechanism how particle interactions inside the earth develop PLANTS on its own surface to then deliver and sustain beings here through them (a process that happens billions of times every single day just now), then it is possible to practically trace and rearrange the sources of all evil (DISASTERS, PREDATION, DISEASES ~ which include all birth defects, all weapons manufacture, all violence ~ and DEATH) while those sources are still inside the earth, so that they never reach the surface to harm any being. Possession of that model would also enable us to prevent death, retrace and resurrect all beings that ever lived here (excluding, of course, the parasites like mosquitoes), terraform other celestial bodies from here itself using the plants to access the resources inside the earth, without mining them and building factories to process on the surface ~ as we do at present, and transfer them to those celestial bodies automatically using animals eating from suitably designed plants as the only necessary LABOUR. Thereafter we can manufacture the vessels to travel to those celestial destinations with all necessary fuel inbuilt (earthlets, in fact), the same way, inside the earth itself too, before proceeding to populate more and more celestial bodies eternally. This would render Nietzschean "eternal recurrence and saying yes to life with all the evil" superfluous as owning, designing and populating new celestial entities (moons, planets and stars) would bring eternally new experiences for all beings (humans AND animals) to enjoy cooperatively ~ eternal evil free life function is a practically realizable task for the present generation, if we only derive that mathematical model.
thanks, so many ideas for reading. For decades Russian lit was widely ignored in American schools (the Cold War?) , though Dostoevsky was a cultural hero no matter his absence from our curriculum. The Brothers K was one of the big experiences of my early reading life. Recently enjoyed Bulgakov's Heart of a Dog in a new translation. Agree with you about overlong Anna Karenina. Never heard of Gorky's Mother but hope to make up for that. Maybe it's a R equivalent to Grapes of Wrath.
See most of you are the phonies he is talking about. Your all looking for a reason to make the book about you. Why can't you just accept, this is how some people are? I'm 49 I just read it for first time, this is who I am! I just felt like, I'm not alone after all.
There is nothing to talk about. This is me, my whole life, even feeling weird having sex with girls and no I'm not gay at all. Stop thinking so hard. This is how some people really are.
Decent video, except I don’t think philosophers should be considered “inventors” of ideas. A philosopher is someone concerned with discovering truth. If new truths could be invented, it wouldn’t really be truth.
I'm Dutch, and for the past 3 years i needed to read 15 pieces of literature for a exam conversation with my dutch teacher. I read Oeroeg and The house of the mosque. But the hous of the mosque really stuck with me. I find it the most interesting book i have ever read. And i don't really like reading. But that book is one of the coolest things i have ever read. A beautiful piece of art.
I also now and then read Haruki. He's not exactly my favorite, but he's alright to pass the time. Dislike Bukowski, though. He's a total mediocrity. Anyhow, my favorite writers are J.G. Ballard, H.P. Lovecraft, Vladimir Nabokov, Cormac McCarthy, Hunter Thompson, Thomas Pynchon, Philip Roth, Bret Easton Ellis. Maybe Richard Brautigan. And a light mention to Chuck Palahniuk, Donna Tartt, Elmore Leonard, and Flannery O'Connor. And Salinger. Yukio Mishima is another one - I don't love Mishima per say, but I do read him a lot.
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I'm sorry but this video is just so wrong. You very conviniently skipped the one who brought Idealism and Materialism together, namely Hegel (who btw was unsure whether to call his philosohpy Idealism because the connotations of anti-realism "Everything is in your mind duuude" it had. He could just as well have called it Realism). He's the one who actually solved Kants noumenal phenomenal split. It was the primary problem in philosophy, the presuppositional divide of either starting philosophy with the material substance, atom, or monad, and the subjective intuition, God, Cogito, I etc. The problem was that no one quite understood Hegel and therefore the future after him just continued in the same vain of either putting material or the human mind as primary.
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