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lesewut · 2 years

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“Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch” by Immanuel Kant, first publication 1795. This edition was released 1947 by Dr. Julius Rodenberg

Theories of peace are not just powdery utopian dreams: Kant is presenting in a juristical and therefore pragmatical manner how important and essential perpetual (global) peace is. Drawing attention to the fact that war is a "sad remedy of emergency" of the status naturales. Also sketching his maxim of categorical imperative, an ius cosmopoliticum formulation, federation of free states and outlines that the Handelsgeist (spirit of trading) can achieve eternal peace worldwide. His essay commitment against slavery and aggression is very visionary and not unsubstantiated an immanent part of the UN-Charta of 1945.

#literature #book cover #book #German philosophers #Kant #Immanuel Kant #theories of peace #peace #antiquarian book #1940s #40s #1947 #Perpetual Peace #Zum Ewigen Frieden #Frieden

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realhankmccoy · 10 months

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Trumpself: the only real desire Trump feels is a ferocious and animalistic desire to brutalise, humiliate and main anybody who tries to love Trump. Trumpself had to rip out Ivana's hair at the slightest pretext. Why? Because it's fun when you're spoiled. Even in the case of a woman... just a sort of practice bitch on the world you're too spoiled to join in with, only having ever been spoiled by a white dominator, you're only ever wanting to white dominate it.

Trumpself and the Trump 5: never will trust you unless you earn it, make the effort to show you care. All efforts you did to earn it in the past and show you care are for naught, nothing, we spit them up in your face, fuck you you piece of shit, baby only wants to TAKE TAKE TAKE TAKE GIMME GIB MIR DAT FOR FREE GIB MIR MORE PAMPERS ME BRIEFSBOY WHERE YOU GET THEM FANCY BRIEFS FROM... PAMPERS MIR I SED!

(no offence to Pampers brand diapers, as I was just passing them today and realised I'm the kind of existentialist who finds everything on earth exquisitely meaningful to the point of it almost being torture... it's not quite a nihilist save for those masochistic nails being driven into oneself by one trying a little too hard to apprehend reality)

Trumpself: I'm a typical American and cuck of Trump but want to frame that Canuck who can scarcely even stand to be in my country and gets the fuq out of it and cries like a little bitch over the thought of having to even set foot in it most of the time... as one.

Trumpself: I can never trust anyone or anything, because my daddy spoiled me too much and provided the shelter that said the outside world is not to be trusted.

Trumpself: Doesn't understand that things don't grow by gobbling them all up and by painting oneself in neon tones of silver and gold all the time. Do you know what that is, kids? That's called garish. That's called capitalism. That's called what you kids would call a clown -- overwrought kitsch and camp -- ye who is so dismissive of gay culture yet so eager to find value in the Gods and the Devils of Christ Inanity -- would be less of a nerd if Christcuckself and Trumpself knew what KITSCH and CAMP are, especially in the pointless selfpromo land of what you kids call 'late capitalism' in which people can't even string 4 chords together decently but give 'interviews' as if anyone should care about the 'artist' who has apparently learned the lessons of The Apprentice... make some crap but don't worry so much about the crap as the fact that American life is about mastering MARKETING MARKETING MARKETING...

You know, whatshisface and my mother say that the Trump 4 aren't worth my time -- for some reason they go easy on my brother, and that reason is a simple reason: this is how American patriarchy and dumbing down work... it's always THE EVIL DADDY MUST DIE, but the son who is even 'neckier and dumber than the evil daddy must be... coddled and shown pity... until perhaps everybody's dead and he's left to be THE EVIL DADDY or give birth to some of em...

It's really so... tiresome, America.

But whathisface has a point... why, exactly, do I waste my time on the Trump 5... for the penetrating insight into typical America? For the game of seeing if selfish boys who never learned how to love can be reformed and taught to do more other than fish for material goods and prizes and money and toys, soaking humanity for what you can soak as is the teachings of the Trump and the Nation who cucked em'. Is there a childlike element in me myself in which the big world and its unanswered questions, it's challenges of 'speaking French fluency' or 'earning enough money to retire' seem so overwhelming that dwelling on the past and past betrayers is a sort of safe space, a small pond in which I win every argument but can never win so much as a sincere apology and expression of remorse with any of the Trump 5, let alone shift their value systems out of what they think are 'smart' value systems (the value systems of Kid Rock and Trump and various Cuntry music superstars and all that cornpone crap of belittling others all the livelong redneck day whilst getting one's Wascally Wabbit on when on a sugar high and making excuses for the values of sportsmen, if such males can be called men -- the sportsball and YOU'RE NOT GONNA GET WHAT YOU WANT THROUGH THE GUBBAMINT OR MY TAX DOLLARS CERTAINLY YOUR SOCIALISATION IS BULL YOU CANNOT BE TRUSTED CErTAINLY YOU WILL NOT GET WHAT YOU WANT OUT OF ME FOR I AM AS UNLIKELY TO GIVE IT YOU AS A COLICKY BABY IS being all the suburban white Wonderbread truly has in mind for the world --

Why, exactly, other than every protagnoists needs antagonists because too much art -- especially too many films and tv shows -- were designed in this way so my mind has been warped by them -- although that's the state of the world too...

Every 'Merica needs its Russia Every France needs its Germany and the vice-versa

Pourquoi, though... pourquoi specifically... well, that already delineated everything that came to mind off the top of my head, but it still feels like the real motherload of the answer is in Mommie's mind and invisible to her. Either that or Mommie is self-sabotaging by painting her superficial immediate reaction as 'not nearly insightful enough, the mere glaze of an isnight'...

Hmm, well, this is one of those 'how many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop questions' and since I feel like maybe it could be answered by rewatching Tootsie, the movie, I'm clearly ready for bed, since, objectively speaking and objectivistly speaking, I doubt Tootsie actually really is the answer to the puzzle -- though I half think it probably actually is the answer.

At the very least, these people like my daughter Christina should consider that Mommie thinks all the homosexuality is the earth telling the human race that 8 billion people is too many so go stick your dick into shit-coated asses rather than make any more of them for fuck's sake -- and just look at dumb dumbs like Elon Doofus trying to fight mother nature on this and get everyone to breed some more for capitalism -- anyhow, Montréal actually posits Degrowth as good urban planning and policy -- and if homosexuality has anything to do with James Lovelock's Gaia hypothesis, famously transmuted by Will Wright -- Lovelock served as an advisor! -- into SimEarth -- well, kiddo, then you'd better put down the Pantheon of Gawds and roll around in everything twinkletoes you can possibly get your hands on because that is -- to do an involution of a mostly unrelated book by Iris Murdoch -- The Message From the Planet.

Also, I think homosexuality has something to do with those ants with wings and lesbians in the beehive but I haven't really looked into it. It's different in humans though because it's sort of more exclusive, but is it? Because I did have some hookups with the womens, and think of all the gay mating behaviours of the humans, how many ON THE SURFACE fuck the womens all the time, 'cluding Bruce.

Dragonflies are apparently really gay. I used to have a poem about dragonflies memorised in German, but I only remember some lines from it these days. I'm not sure I've read it in translation, though you'd think I'd have done so when learning the meaning.

Anyhow, this English version seems very unfamiliar... I don't remember the thing being called JOY at all, but this is the poem. Goethe is proof that all Germans are not as stupid as Nietzsche, and he came much earlier, which made all his prowesses, of which there are so very many, far more impressive. Goethe is a German I can still get behind even if so many of the others -- Hegel, Kant, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Heidegger, even Habermas... seem to be, well, not rubbish, but let's just say uh, not where I'm looking anymore... i'm not even looking to The Frankfurt School though I'd mostly approve of them and would look to them before the rest of that batch, in a spiritual sense, I do believe. Plus The Frankfurt School was something Camille Paglia just wanted to throw out of academia so she could write about having the hots for Diana Rigg from The Avengers instead... anyhow, she later acknowledged wanting to write about MOO - VIES as a mistake... I do respect the movie people, I just seem to really lack the patience to write about movies. I don't respect lack of patience, either, but I guess I'm just a book guy and a music guy before I'm a movie guy. Jesus Christ, a movie is gonna move at its own pace... a book moves at your own, and music is adjustable for the pace you want -- I so often choose a faster tempo even though reggae is my favourite genre.

Reggae tries to put the world onto the OFFBEATS -- a rhythmic, stead offbeat world -- and that seems to suit me well as a homo, not to mention as a force of whatever anti-Wonderbread anti-nuclear counterculture I might be.

Although damn, speaking of sleepy Habermas... do you find him sleepy too kids, or is that just me? I would imagine many do... anyhow, that stuff about Habermas on 'and thus is merely TOTALIZES, blah blah blah TOTALIZES IT and TOTALIZES IT'... that was kinda some intense stuff.

The poem:

Joy Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A Dragon-Fly with beauteous wing Is hov’ring o’er a silv’ry spring; I watch its motions with delight, Now dark its colours seem, now bright; Chameleon-like appear, now blue, Now red, and now of greenish hue. Would it would come still nearer me, That I its tints might better see It hovers, flutters, resting ne’er! But hush! it settles on the mead. I have it safe now, I declare! And when its form I closely view, ’Tis of a sad and dingy blue Such, Joy-Dissector, is thy case indeed.

#goethe #johann wolfgang von goethe #habermas #nietzsche #german philosophers #camille paglia #diana rig #the hots #mommie dearest #usa #america

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tranzsunnyd · 1 year

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ao3 being down always sucks bc well. its ao3 but the one bright side is seeing all of my mutuals have a collective synchronised breakdown on every platform possible

#ao3 #ao3 down #maybe that german philosopher dude was right something something all parts of humanity are cool #.txt

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mammutblog · 1 year

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do you guys wanna know how i ended up here. it was in current worlds finest run when bruce was casually like "that's a shang dynasty bronze sword" in a dick measuring contest with that other guy so that he can look cool in front of clark and i was like. did he just casually date an early china bronze object and then i had no choice but to unzip my pants

#emotionally #i dont actually want to fuck him #hes like #just so sad #like hes like if a french philosopher were sexy kind of sad you know #yeah did pontificating about phenomenology in german cure your depression?#i didnt think so #sorry its finals week and im going insane

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henk-heijmans · 6 months

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The philosopher, ca. 1913 - by August Sander (1876 – 1964), German

#August Sander #German #philosopher

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theidealistphilosophy · 9 months

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That is why I go into solitude— so as not to drink out of everybody’s cistern. When I am among the many I live as the many do, and I do not think as I really think; after a time it always seems as though they want to banish me from myself and rob me of my soul— and I grow angry with everybody and fear everybody.

Friedrich Nietzsche, Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality.

#philosophy tumblr #philoblr #german philology #philosopher #friedrich nietzsche #meta ethics #daybreak #morality #existentialism #solitude #dark academia #life quotes

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his-heart-hymns · 7 months

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Around 2400 years ago one of the most famous Greek philosophers Socrates said:

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

And About 150 years ago, the renowned Urdu poet from the Indian subcontinent Dagh Dehlvi wrote:

Yeh samajh kar tujhe ae maut laga rakkha hai

Ke kaam aata hai bure vaqt me aana tera.

Translation:In contemplation, we hold death close to our hearts, Aware of its significance in the gravest and most difficult hours.

Even after thousands of years of human progress we still believe that death offers solace and ultimate peace from life's cruelties.

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yellow-yarrow · 7 months

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reading fayde (again). just found this line of Egg head referencing Never ending story by Limahl

Egg Head - "Rhymes that keep their secrets will unfold behind the clouds!"

does anyone know what this might reference? (if its a reference at all) he says this after they "tame" the sound recorded from the swallow for the music :

Egg Head - "THIS IS BEAUTY, THIS IS LIFE!"

I thought it could be a lyrics but I didn't find anything, except a sermon from G. Campbell Morgan which could be a coincidence but also the dolorian church is kinda based on christianity so maybe...?

I behold Him [Christ], and I say already to myself, Yea, verily, this is glory, this is beauty, this is life, this is perfection! But I am not that, I cannot be that. Therefore am I filled with fear, and the fear is generated by the apprehension of the glory and the beauty of Christ.

it's between Scooter references:

You - "THIS ONE IS FOR THE ANODIC GENERATION!" Egg Head - "INTRODUCING THE ULTIMATE SOUND!" Egg Head - "DOLORIAN CHURCH -- THE PLACE TO BE!" Egg's losing himself in the sound. "Pump it, pump it!"

listening to the pale is described like this:

Andre - "Guys, what's going on?" There's alarm in the man's voice, as he steps back to scan the surroundings

Egg Head - "HOSIANNAH! MOTHER OF MEGA!" You hear Egg Head yell -- then something else, but his voice is growing faint... Empathy - In his mind, a tidal wave approaching from afar, swallowing entire coastlines on its way... salvation. Electrochemistry - He's peaking -- the worst high he's ever been on.

Egg Head - "Yeah! It was awesome, and scary. Very hard core!"

#i have drawn more unhinged connections before so im throwing this out there #disco elysium #listen there are references there you wouldnt believe. from britney spears songs to german children's books to philosophers #it could be possible. but if its a song lyrics i would love to know so i can put it in my de playlist #this started with me wanting to draw liz and then wanting to make a post about her with quotes so i'll better understand her and #now im thinking about the pale and salvation and less than less than nothing and absolute negation

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bowofbalance · 8 months

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This isn't even a "weird things philosophers say" because this isn't even wrong, but I've just never seen wissen spelled that way. I feel like it's wrong?

#is this just the older spelling system?#am i stupid?#admittedly i have never had formal education in german so all i know is what you learn from speaking the language at home #german stuff #german things #weird things philosophers say

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ossidae-passeridae · 4 months

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question 25!

Question from here

25. What’s your opinion on modern AUs? What makes a good one?

My opinion on modern AUs is very mixed. When they're done well, they can be a fabulous way of examining a character through a different lens, but if they're just dropping a bunch of characters fully formed into a coffeeshop or somesuch, they do less than nothing for me.

I've written one serious modern AU, Six Months In A Leaky Boat, and before I put a single word on the page, I went through all the main and supporting characters and broke down their characterisations in the GFFA to traits, and noted major events in their life that would have shaped them in some way. I then looked at how I could map this onto modern day earth. If I couldn't, then the character couldn't be used. This meant I could stay true to the characters, even through a complete change of context.

Do I expect everyone to do this to write AUs? Absolutely not. I'm much more German structural in my writing process than almost anyone else I know.

But for a modern AU to be "good" to me they really do have to be in very close dialogue with the original text — they need to be a deconstruction and reconstruction both. That's what makes them compelling.

(All opinions expressed above are solely those of pass e. ridae and do not express the views or opinions of any affiliates or associates, passerine or otherwise)

#dae asks #star wars #dae writes about writes #modern AUs #I continue to be a german philosopher in my heart don't @ me

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