He's one of the few humans who wrote extensively and early-on about child development forming the personality of the later adult; putting him on par with the greatest writers humanity has or will ever produce whether you know his name or like his views on other things or not - he owns real estate in the species and a good chunk of your body.
Kek. Well I suppose it's either that or being spiritually raped by Emile Durkheim yet remaining, through a lifetime, none the wiser.
It's mankind that's moronic, cher Eurogay.
For a nation partly founded (and anyway militarily conquered) by a man who tied up anti-revolutionary religious zealots to stakes in great numbers and blew them up with artillery the mindless lust for religiosity of the grandchildren of these men never ceases to amaze me. It's like you don't know who you are.
2 years ago
Anonymous
That's your ace? >It's like you don't know who you are
Only the shallow know themselves >a clever European said that
2 years ago
Anonymous
kind of yeah, not that I was the guy you were talking to originally, but yeah:
there's musing on things from behind the safety of a policemans shoulder and then there's military conquest, and the two aren't in the same league.
2 years ago
Anonymous
They're not in the same league because they're two entirely different operations. The history of every country, of every strip of land, from then till now, contains more than a little of both.
Montaigne was a devout Catholic no? That's what made his essays interesting for me, the balance between his religion and willingness to address difficult subjects like suicide from a variety of viewpoints.
He was. It's common today to make this seem a cover, as if his own contemporaries we're less able to penetrate 'the guise' than /we/ moderns. Aar he was a Catholic both Protestants and Catholics trusted; renowned for his justice, his uncanny ability to broker deals, he was perhaps the best mayor Bordeaux, in that city's long history, ever had. I rec Donald Frame's relatively short bio for more.
I read the Frame translation; it's been a while since though. I feel like the anons in this thread aren't giving him a fair shake.
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Anonymous
Well, they're not taking him at his own word. Frame also wrote a good biography of him, and translated Rabelais (I read the Frame translation of The Essays too oc).
Isnt it just boiler plater absurdism with a bent towards nihilism? felt relatively basic, though I guess it was novel for the time. I agree With Neitzche that Pascal was the more interesting personality, asked the same questions, but wasnt nearly as surface level about them in a Melodrama sort of way.
But im just talking personality here. I would still disagree with pascals conclusions a lot of the times, but I really do prefer his personality with actual deeper introspection. Like, Pascal wouldnt just jack off over how small he and humanity is, because he knew that that would just be a masked pitty party, he acknowledged the relativity of everything instead of going into a rabble rousing half truth about a particular extreme while "forgetting" to mention its opposite.
16th c French essayist, travel writer, mayor of Bordeaux, etc. Credited with having invented the familiar essay. What Cervantes:Novel and Shakespeare:Drama so Montaigne:Essay in the Modern, Western World.
Yeah
yes, he is the dumbest """philosopher""" of all time
He's one of the few humans who wrote extensively and early-on about child development forming the personality of the later adult; putting him on par with the greatest writers humanity has or will ever produce whether you know his name or like his views on other things or not - he owns real estate in the species and a good chunk of your body.
Don't like his agnostic views towards religion. He was pretty fedora tier, even for his time
religion is unironically moronic, my american friend
Kek. Well I suppose it's either that or being spiritually raped by Emile Durkheim yet remaining, through a lifetime, none the wiser.
It's mankind that's moronic, cher Eurogay.
For a nation partly founded (and anyway militarily conquered) by a man who tied up anti-revolutionary religious zealots to stakes in great numbers and blew them up with artillery the mindless lust for religiosity of the grandchildren of these men never ceases to amaze me. It's like you don't know who you are.
That's your ace?
>It's like you don't know who you are
Only the shallow know themselves
>a clever European said that
kind of yeah, not that I was the guy you were talking to originally, but yeah:
there's musing on things from behind the safety of a policemans shoulder and then there's military conquest, and the two aren't in the same league.
They're not in the same league because they're two entirely different operations. The history of every country, of every strip of land, from then till now, contains more than a little of both.
Your mom is moronic too, Europenis. Also he looks too much like my sisters ex-husband
isn’t divorce a sin?
Montaigne was a devout Catholic no? That's what made his essays interesting for me, the balance between his religion and willingness to address difficult subjects like suicide from a variety of viewpoints.
He was. It's common today to make this seem a cover, as if his own contemporaries we're less able to penetrate 'the guise' than /we/ moderns. Aar he was a Catholic both Protestants and Catholics trusted; renowned for his justice, his uncanny ability to broker deals, he was perhaps the best mayor Bordeaux, in that city's long history, ever had. I rec Donald Frame's relatively short bio for more.
I read the Frame translation; it's been a while since though. I feel like the anons in this thread aren't giving him a fair shake.
Well, they're not taking him at his own word. Frame also wrote a good biography of him, and translated Rabelais (I read the Frame translation of The Essays too oc).
religion is the new fedora
Isnt it just boiler plater absurdism with a bent towards nihilism? felt relatively basic, though I guess it was novel for the time. I agree With Neitzche that Pascal was the more interesting personality, asked the same questions, but wasnt nearly as surface level about them in a Melodrama sort of way.
But im just talking personality here. I would still disagree with pascals conclusions a lot of the times, but I really do prefer his personality with actual deeper introspection. Like, Pascal wouldnt just jack off over how small he and humanity is, because he knew that that would just be a masked pitty party, he acknowledged the relativity of everything instead of going into a rabble rousing half truth about a particular extreme while "forgetting" to mention its opposite.
Yes. Goethe.
for me it's anti-climacus
*Blocks your path*
No. But Rabelais, Sir Thomas Browne, and Charles Lamb are close
Anonymous
Cervantes on par
hands down, one of the best characters on Mind Your Language
>Montaigne
Who?
16th c French essayist, travel writer, mayor of Bordeaux, etc. Credited with having invented the familiar essay. What Cervantes:Novel and Shakespeare:Drama so Montaigne:Essay in the Modern, Western World.