May 2012
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Max Stirner →
Max Stirner (1806–56) is best known as the author of the idiosyncratic and provocative book entitled Der Einzige und sein Eigenthum (1844). Familiar in English as The Ego and Its Own (a more literal translation would be The Unique Individual and his Property), both the form and content of Stirner’s work are disconcerting. He challenges expectations about how political and philosophical...
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“The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the...”
– Ted Kaczynski, “Introduction”, The Unabomber Manifesto
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Anonymous asked: What are some good books on Nihilism and Philosophy in general?
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“We do not want to direct or support social movements, but rather to participate...”
– At Daggers Drawn with the Existent, its Defenders, and its False critics
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“If they do not wish to deceive themselves and others, those struggling for the...”
– At Daggers Drawn with the Existent, its Defenders, and its False critics
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“Arm yourself and be violent, beautifully violent, until everything explodes....”
– Mauricio Morales
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The Unabomber's Pen Pal →
The paper “Industrial Society and Its Future” makes the case that modern technology has restricted freedom, ruined the environment, and caused untold human suffering. People have become overstressed and oversocialized. Humanity, the author writes, is at a crossroads, and we can either turn the clock back to a happier, more primitive time or face destruction.
The author has...
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On Augustine's "Unchangeable Truth"
In Augustine’s On Free Choice of Will, he presents, through conversation with Evodius, the idea of an “inner sense”, which rules over the five senses and is in turn ruled over by Reason. From this he argues that there exists an unchangeable truth that is available to our understanding. Augustine claims that this unchangeable truth can be seen behind mathematics, which he calls Number, and...
Anonymous asked: Do you understand what everything is about? life? Do you understand something no one else does? Do you know that you'll die without understanding life fully?
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“Nature proceeds by blunders; that is its way. It is also ours. So if we have...”
– Thomas Ligotti, The Conspiracy Against the Human Race (2010)
“I wage war with myself and I will destroy myself”
– Albert Camus, “Thoughts of Death”, Notebook Entries - Cordes, August 4.
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