This one? Unlikely. Too many references and criticisms of other philosophers that you'll probably not get at all.
If you wanna start with Nietzsche, i recommend Genealogy of Morals.
On the one hand Nietzsche was explicitly responding to past philosophers in the book and you will definitely feel lost without at the very least some cursory knowledge of Plato, Kant, Schopenhauer and Christianity in general. But on the other hand, his prose and rhetorical style are fairly unique and definitely appreciable to somehow who hasn't gone through the grinder of more rigorous, systematically formulated continental philosophy. It's poetic, aphoristic and entertaining.
On the one hand Nietzsche was explicitly responding to past philosophers in the book and you will definitely feel lost without at the very least some cursory knowledge of Plato, Kant, Schopenhauer and Christianity in general. But on the other hand, his prose and rhetorical style are fairly unique and definitely appreciable to somehow who hasn't gone through the grinder of more rigorous, systematically formulated continental philosophy. It's poetic, aphoristic and entertaining.
You used the wrong pronoun. You have to respect their right to exist before engaging with their work.
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>You have to respect their right to exist before engaging with their work.
This is literally not true. No idea what you're talking about but I thought I'd just chime in helpfully to tell you that statement is wrong, you CAN engage with someone's text without acknowledging their right to exist.
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So you are literally trying to control my perception of you? No thanks, I'll stick with the good old fashioned dinosaur genders of man and woman.
a good chunk of the book focuses on polyamory which I'm not really interested in but this ironed out a lot of my more conservative views on sex, promiscuity, being a bawd.
I have not read this, but I discovered at some time in my 20s that I could simply be a religious person who believes in God without believing that anything supernatural or physically impossible miracles have ever occurred. I'm not sure if this is related to that book at all. I will read it though.
Woman at Point Zero (or Firdaus, a title which I preferred over Woman at Point Zero) by Nawal El Saadawi.
Also the snippets of The Outliers I have read helped me understand our world and the mindset of it so I would suggest that one too.
Isn't this whole book essentially disproven at the story of David Reimer which she uses as an example, who killed himself due to being forced to behave like a woman along with being sexually abused?
Also, transpeople have a 40% suicide rate. That is higher than the suicide rate of the israelites in concentration camps (which was ~25%). You cannot tell me that being trans isn't a mental disorder which needs treatment.
That doesn't make transpeople bad people, but to ignore the extreme psychological duress on these people caused by their dysphoria is more dangerous to their health than any mean slur or dissenting opinion on the internet will ever be.
embarrassing
t. israelite
The KJV is literally named "bait_image"
This book turned me to atheism.
because you read it with a modern materialist mindset. you need initiation into sacred tradition (Orthodox Church) to properly understand it.
This book made me way more antisemetic and antiChristian that I already was.
Might I get something out of this without any background in philosophy?
This one? Unlikely. Too many references and criticisms of other philosophers that you'll probably not get at all.
If you wanna start with Nietzsche, i recommend Genealogy of Morals.
bless
On the one hand Nietzsche was explicitly responding to past philosophers in the book and you will definitely feel lost without at the very least some cursory knowledge of Plato, Kant, Schopenhauer and Christianity in general. But on the other hand, his prose and rhetorical style are fairly unique and definitely appreciable to somehow who hasn't gone through the grinder of more rigorous, systematically formulated continental philosophy. It's poetic, aphoristic and entertaining.
what's her argument, qrd?
Butler uses they/them pronouns.
that's the qrd? thanks
You used the wrong pronoun. You have to respect their right to exist before engaging with their work.
>You have to respect their right to exist before engaging with their work.
This is literally not true. No idea what you're talking about but I thought I'd just chime in helpfully to tell you that statement is wrong, you CAN engage with someone's text without acknowledging their right to exist.
So you are literally trying to control my perception of you? No thanks, I'll stick with the good old fashioned dinosaur genders of man and woman.
a good chunk of the book focuses on polyamory which I'm not really interested in but this ironed out a lot of my more conservative views on sex, promiscuity, being a bawd.
whoops forgot the image, this is the book I was talking about.
After reading the Gita I found I could use the word God without it being weird or forced or irreverent.
I have not read this, but I discovered at some time in my 20s that I could simply be a religious person who believes in God without believing that anything supernatural or physically impossible miracles have ever occurred. I'm not sure if this is related to that book at all. I will read it though.
I hate dikes, I hate israelites, I hate leftists.
Please leave us be, IQfy is a Christian board now.
IQfy is a nonbinary philosemitic progressive board chud. Also hatred is not Christian.
What is Just War Theory?
Woman at Point Zero (or Firdaus, a title which I preferred over Woman at Point Zero) by Nawal El Saadawi.
Also the snippets of The Outliers I have read helped me understand our world and the mindset of it so I would suggest that one too.
Thoughts on Chogyam Trungpa?
So he's literally between good and evil?
TF
Thanks, IQfy
Isn't this whole book essentially disproven at the story of David Reimer which she uses as an example, who killed himself due to being forced to behave like a woman along with being sexually abused?
Also, transpeople have a 40% suicide rate. That is higher than the suicide rate of the israelites in concentration camps (which was ~25%). You cannot tell me that being trans isn't a mental disorder which needs treatment.
That doesn't make transpeople bad people, but to ignore the extreme psychological duress on these people caused by their dysphoria is more dangerous to their health than any mean slur or dissenting opinion on the internet will ever be.
Rape Judith Butler