Nietzsche is one of my favorite philosophers and is central to contemporary Continental philosophy, (poststructuralism,) in addition to existentialism.
I tried to read tThe Brothers Karamozov as a kid. I wish I'd stuck with it, I really did enjoy it, but I just didn't have the patience to stick w it, I guess. But I really enjoyed Dostoyevsky's style, it was very rich and vibrant, even though it was v elaborate, unlike a lot of Russian novels that can be v tedious.
Oh my God!! You shouldn't have started it that early... Read Crime and Punishment and see how Dostoyovki is a master of mind... See how he searches in every corner of mind to find an answer.
Tolstoy was a very interesting individual. I'm sure they all were, but he's the only one whose life I know anything about. A Christian anarchist and a pacifist. I was a revolutionary Christian anarchist at one time, now I'm a autonomist Marxist.
I don't even read much fiction these days. Not enough hrs on the day. To much concrete info to assimilate. I prefer pop and avant pop culture these days. It's sacralige I know.
Tolstoy came from a aristocrat family, where Dostoyovski was an unlucky gambler and he has always in his life lived as a man who sold his masterpieces before they were created to get some money to gamble. I cannot believe that he wrote all those master pieces because he had to make a living... His Idiot is one of the greatest books of history of the World's literature.
Pop has never been my favorite. Surreal, however to me is the best... I always find surreal more pleasant to the imagination by hearing or reading, rather than seeing them on the wall as a painting.
I figured I've transcended classical philosophy, existentialism included. It's not that I know everything, but I know enough re how contemporary philosophy overcome the limits of the past. So it's not that I have nothing to gain by learning more about them, but in a certain sense I'm not sure classical thought has much to teach me, in the broad general sence. Nothing but details whose limits have also been overcome.
If I want to be entertained I'll gravitate towards something less demanding. Life and learning are demanding enough as it is. I like my art to be interesting, and exciting, even challenging, but I bury myself in enough demanding material as it is. I'm sort of a product of my culture, but I tend to embrace it the way most ppl embrace classical thought. It's not that I don't have any use for the past or the works of the past, I just don't have much use for nostalgia, if you what I mean. The limits of an imagined past that never was.
That's awesome... I have always found philosophy a window to a certain person's mind which might be similar to our own philosophy.. Everyone has their own personal philosophy.. Most of us are not able to write or speak it, but it exist inside us..I can't find any philosophers philosophy an exact prescription to my framework of mind, similar maybe.
I read them without making judgement, I just learn their mind and compare it to mine..I also learn from some of them...like some and dislike others... But none are mine.
