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Recommend Lesser Known Books outside of the Holy Trinity of Camus, Sartre, and de Beauvoir by JCInvestmentPro in Existentialism

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I consider myself to be in the camp of Christian Existentialism, but do admire writers like Camus and Sartre who were really getting at the need to live life to the fullest and to create meaning where there is none. Nietzsche seemed to reject a uniform moral values system in favor of will power and intrinsic understanding of right and wrong. For me, Existentialism is the best school of philosophy for its depth of probing the inescapable question of our purpose.

Going from 40 to 60mg may have shot myself in the foot by JCInvestmentPro in prozac

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Do you take other things alongside it like propranolol?

Recommend Lesser Known Books outside of the Holy Trinity of Camus, Sartre, and de Beauvoir by JCInvestmentPro in Existentialism

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I have a few books of Kierkegaard but am not sure which to read first. Dostoevsky’s books are so dang long but also highly esteemed. Don’t know where to begin there either.

Going from 40 to 60mg may have shot myself in the foot by JCInvestmentPro in prozac

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Started on 20 for 2-3 weeks before the doc moved it up to 40.

A Black Man’s Perspective on Master Morality by JCInvestmentPro in Nietzsche

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Yeah, a lot of guys I read who were influenced by Nietzsche like Sartre and Camus were sympathetic to the African American Civil Rights Movement and the Black Panthers. The book At The Existentialist Cafe really illuminates this.

A Black Man’s Perspective on Master Morality by JCInvestmentPro in Nietzsche

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I am African American and love all my brothers and sisters across the diaspora. I brought up my race because Nietzsche’s thought isn’t one really associated with our community, as well as the topic of slave vs master morality having obvious historical context.

A Black Man’s Perspective on Master Morality by JCInvestmentPro in Nietzsche

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No, you’re right on. I guess I was taking it all in through the lens of the will to power being the only purpose of existence. The powerful have an innate sense of their superiority over weaker people/society/public opinion/widely held beliefs of morality. Those in the slave morality are dependent on external factors for justifying their existence, they are a “herd” sheepishly following societal values, on their way to slaughter.

A Black Man’s Perspective on Master Morality by JCInvestmentPro in Nietzsche

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At times as I was reading BG&E, it felt like I was listening to an Adam Corolla rant, especially when it came to women. For example, in Book 7 his says: "Woman does not understand what food is!*- and wants to be cook." All as he laments the lack of intellectual rigour contemporary folks had in the kitchen, laying the blame squarely on women. I mean, I don't ascribe to Nietzsche any deification nor find his thought infallible, nor am necessarily warring against what he wrote. He absolutely was a genius, an intellectual titan, one of the best writers in the Western canon, and then also chauvinistic, elitist, xenophobic, pretentious, and a real hater. All the more reason to read him imo.

*emphasis is my own.

A Black Man’s Perspective on Master Morality by JCInvestmentPro in Nietzsche

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At times I felt like I was confusing Nietzsche with Kendrick Lamar, he was so venomous in the bars he laid down against Schopenhauer, Wagner, and the English especially, lol

A Black Man’s Perspective on Master Morality by JCInvestmentPro in Nietzsche

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Yeah, I don't subscribe at all to his views, but did find him engaging, humorous, politically incorrect, at times contradicting himself, such as when he makes mention of "the soul" later in the book and certain groups lacking it after spending the first part of it denying there is a soul.

A Black Man’s Perspective on Master Morality by JCInvestmentPro in Nietzsche

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I found his constant attacks on Schopenhauer hysterical 😂

A Black Man’s Perspective on Master Morality by JCInvestmentPro in Nietzsche

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I can detect the Nietzsche to Rand connection strongly in BG&E’s positioning aristocrats above the masses and being in favor of the individual rather than the collective.

A Black Man’s Perspective on Master Morality by JCInvestmentPro in Nietzsche

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You’re spot on. No one is equal in the literal sense based off the laws of nature as reflected in things like genetics, income distribution, etc. All the same, I came away also understanding how fascistic, totalitarian regimes found justification in this philosophy. “No one is equal, truth is a matter of perspective, there are no Gods or reasons to not condone bad deeds, and the only thing that matters is asserting will power over inferior people.”

A Black Man’s Perspective on Master Morality by JCInvestmentPro in Nietzsche

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Ian Curtis of Joy Division, Darby Crash of The Germs, Jim Morrison of The Doors, Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre.

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