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Jokeshopbeard
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Registered: 11/30/11
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Re: Any philosophy people know of decent secondary literature on Kierkegaard? [Re: EllisDSox]
#23417888 - 07/06/16 06:03 PM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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LOL. Glad to see you in PS&P again BD. I'd love to say I've the time or motivation to read up on these heavyweight motherfuckers, but frankly, I don't. lol, it's probably not helped by the fact you keep suggesting 'fuck ______' or '______ was a prick' (I kid).
TBH, I admire anyone who take take their works to heart. I've been reading 'Meditations' by Marcus Aurelius recently and have read into Jung a little but I find their work pretty heavy going and hard to digest.
-------------------- Let it be seen that you are nothing. And in knowing that you are nothing... there is nothing to lose, there is nothing to gain. What can happen to you? Something can happen to the body, but it will either heal or it won't. What's the big deal? Let life knock you to bits. Let life take you apart. Let life destroy you. It will only destroy what you are not. --Jac O'keeffe
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EllisDSox
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Registered: 01/22/07
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Re: Any philosophy people know of decent secondary literature on Kierkegaard? [Re: Jokeshopbeard]
#23418741 - 07/06/16 10:47 PM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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To me, Jung doesn't read unnaturally or anything and some of his works are really good. He just seems to flip between really practical, concrete psychology and (for me) unpalatable nonsense about the I Ching and synchronicity and so on. It's interesting stuff, but I do wonder whether it's really worth a psychiatrist's time to spend half a lifetime reading old alchemical texts.
I find most really great thinkers are actually relatively clear in their writing style and I tend to be suspicious of really impenetrable stuff, but there are definitely cases when someone's theories are fantastic and they're just bad writers. Especially Kant.
-------------------- Disclaimer: If you have any kind of heart condition, my posts are not for you. You could literally die from reading the first couple of words in any one of them. Scroll down the page, live your life and prosper, but don't read my posts because your heart will probably explode. I am not joking.
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laughingdog
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Re: Any philosophy people know of decent secondary literature on Kierkegaard? [Re: EllisDSox]
#23423346 - 07/08/16 11:50 AM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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