Hi. 'Anyone here subscribe to either de Botton's School of Life, or Alex Kierkegaard's Orgy of the Will?
I'm looking for closest *living* philosophy writer to Nietzsche and settled on these. If any of you have access to their paywall content could you say whether it's good enough value or not? Cheers.
Don't bother with orgy of the will, he misreads Nietzche to justify being an egotistical prick.
Every conclusion Alex draws is based around him being the ubermensch and the number one greatest person on the planet. He's an unhinged narcissist who has some nice sounding rhetoric that ultimately goes nowhere because the only consistent element is "I am better than everyone else so I can do what I want."
Botton on the other hand is nearly the opposite. He comes from this bizarre school of thought that embraces humanistic understanding and condemns the very concept of condemnation in a way. Botton is certainly well read in psychology and social theory, however at no point does he posit anything resembling philosophy outside of self help videos on how to deal with common human anxieties.
Essentially, Orgy is outright bad, Botton is good but not a philosopher.
Isaiah Russell
brett stevens loves nietzsche
amerika.org
Nathaniel Garcia
I also wouldn't give your financial information to Orgy/Icycalm/Kierkegard. He's wanted for financial fraud and has stolen from his customers before.
Eli Taylor
>I'm looking for closest *living* philosophy writer to Nietzsche You're looking in the wrong place, OP. Modern academic philosophy has no room for people like Nietzsche.
Look in the rap community instead.
Mason Cruz
>Don't bother with orgy of the will, he misreads Nietzche to justify being an egotistical prick. [citation needed] >Every conclusion Alex draws is based around him being the ubermensch and the number one greatest person on the planet. He's an unhinged narcissist who has some nice sounding rhetoric that ultimately goes nowhere because the only consistent element is "I am better than everyone else so I can do what I want." Not true. He has plenty of writing where he doesn't even mention himself, e.g. a lot of his writings on art.
>I also wouldn't give your financial information to Orgy/Icycalm/Kierkegard. He's wanted for financial fraud and has stolen from his customers before. Are you being purposefully misleading? Everyone knows he did that in his youth, to his EBAY customers. As far as we know, he has never done so to the subscribers of his literature.
The two I mentioned are not academics, fucking rap moron. Instrumental hiphop > rap.
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Zachary Gutierrez
>Instrumental hiphop > rap t. last man
Jordan Murphy
>Instrumental hiphop > rap. If you seriously think this, you're sheltered as fuck, desu.
Both are equally great. Get a grip, buddy boy.
Isaiah Walker
>t. last man Nope, the overman himself has said as much: orgyofthewill.net/
(search for aphorism 751)
Nathaniel Perez
>the overman himself has said as much But Lil B didn't write that.
Julian Gray
Go away Alex, you do this every month
Asher Barnes
I'm not Alex, I just enjoy his free content and wondered if anyone can vouch for the paywall stuff.
Juan Richardson
has de Botton ever had sex with a woman?
Nicholas Flores
Hes allowed to cradle his wife's lovers bollocks on special occasions
Hunter Ramirez
He's married and writes books about sex, so probably.
Isaac Green
it's just that the way he talks about it makes me think he has never seen a vagina except on a screen
Ryan Thomas
lel, why?
Andrew Gray
I read Icycalm's free shit and I felt ripped off. Not that user, but reading his work feels like sitting for hours with a vanilla wafer in your mouth. At first it's very mildly pleasant, if a little bland. And then it's just bland.
Xavier Walker
why do i get so much joy from seeing people autistically wail and blindly defend people who don't and never will care about them
Noah Gomez
>paying for Icycalm's latest scam loooool
Elijah Scott
Daily reminder
Samuel Campbell
>Implying icycalm doesn't care about samefagging icycalm shills threads
You underestimate the Gr**kroach
Jonathan Perry
>I [only] read Icycalm's free shit and I felt ripped off. >reading his work feels like sitting for hours with a vanilla wafer in your mouth. At first it's very mildly pleasant, if a little bland. And then it's just bland. On the contrary, I thought his elaboration of Baudrillard's "conspiracy of art", in the Genealogy, was amazing.
>why do i get so much joy from seeing people autistically wail and blindly defend people who don't and never will care about them I'm calmly pointing out that no one is really discussing his work at all, just rudely dismissing it.
Again, the context is different from his ebay years. Back then he was selling crap to old people. Now he's writing within the mediums he cares about.
Bentley Ross
>t. Definitely not icycalm
Anthony Turner
Would it matter if I was him or not?
Is it impossible to think someone else on the planet could enjoy his work?
Julian Jackson
>I'm looking for closest *living* philosophy writer to Nietzsche
Jordan Peterson.
Benjamin Powell
>On the contrary, I thought his elaboration of Baudrillard's "conspiracy of art", in the Genealogy, was amazing. good for you
Angel Howard
someone redpill me on his philosopher's sweater and the life house.
Zachary Phillips
this was bound 2b shit thread
Nathan Torres
>2b
Jonathan Long
I just can't convince myself this guy is worth listening to. I just cant do it.