Ego and Its Own

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Ego and Its Own Anonymous 06-10-25 16:20:24 No.2510613

Has anyone here ever read Stirner’s works cover to cover? Do you think they suffer from mistranslation? I became an egoist anarchist when I was 18. But I do not read German very well and found that I got confused by a lot of the writing. The strangest was not being able to parse the writing because of its poetic nature. Take this as an example:
>Where could one look without meeting victims of self-renunciation? There sits a girl opposite me, who perhaps has been making bloody sacrifices to her soul for ten years already. Over the buxom form droops a deathly-tired head, and pale cheeks betray the slow bleeding away of her youth. Poor child, how often the passions may have beaten at your heart, and the rich powers of youth have demanded their right! When your head rolled in the soft pillow, how awakening nature quivered through your limbs, the blood swelled your veins, and fiery fancies poured the gleam of voluptuousness into your eyes! Then appeared the ghost of the soul and its eternal bliss. You were terrified, your hands folded themselves, your tormented eye turned its look upward, you—prayed. The storms of nature were hushed, a calm glided over the ocean of your appetites. Slowly the weary eyelids sank over the life extinguished under them, the tension crept out unperceived from the rounded limbs, the boisterous waves dried up in the heart, the folded hands themselves rested a powerless weight on the unresisting bosom, one last faint "Oh dear!" moaned itself away, and—the soul was at rest. You fell asleep, to awake in the morning to a new combat and a new—prayer. Now the habit of renunciation cools the heat of your desire, and the roses of your youth are growing pale in the—chlorosis of your heavenliness. The soul is saved, the body may perish! O Lais, O Ninon, how well you did to scorn this pale virtue! One free grisette against a thousand virgins grown gray in virtue!
The first time I read it, I thought it was about Stirner perving on a teen girl.

Anonymous 06-10-25 16:21:26 No.2510615

>>2510613
Only trccns read it.

Anonymous 06-10-25 16:32:08 No.2510637

>>2510615
nou

Anonymous 06-10-25 16:44:49 No.2510654

>>2510615
While On the Origin of Species (1859) provided the scientific bedrock for understanding humans as part of the natural, evolving world, Stirner's work (1844) belongs to a philosophical trend that was already embracing naturalism as a response to religious and idealist thought.
Stirner's denunciation of virtue is deeply rooted in this pre-Darwinian intellectual context:
• Philosophical Naturalism: Stirner was a Left-Hegelian who followed Ludwig Feuerbach's idea of philosophical inversion, which argued that "God" was merely the projection of human qualities. Stirner extended this, arguing that all abstract ideas—including morality, law, and even "humanity"—are "spooks" that oppress the real, material, living individual (the Unique One).
• The Body as the Ego: When Stirner praises the "buxom form" and condemns the "slow bleeding away of her youth" for the sake of the "soul," he is making a fiercely materialist and egoistic defense of the body's integrity and its natural functions. He sees the girl's sexual drives as part of her "Ownness" (Eigenheit), which morality demands she sacrifice.
• The Clash: The passage perfectly encapsulates the clash between the Ideal (the soul, virtue) and the Material (the body, youth, desire). Stirner's argument is that the individual should assert their self-will against these spiritual demands, making the body's natural state the only moral authority.

Anonymous 06-10-25 16:46:41 No.2510657

>>2510613
He was writing about morning masturbation and how people dont do it because they are afraid of hell.

Anonymous 06-10-25 16:51:42 No.2510666

>>2510613
Stirner wrote all that to justify his gooning habits and to be at ease.

Anonymous 06-10-25 16:52:37 No.2510668

LOBANOV WAS A COLD-BLOODED WRECKER AND TRAITOR WARRING AGAINST THE SU

Anonymous 06-10-25 17:09:55 No.2510693

>>2510666
Why would an egoist feel any guilt over a normal, organic process like masturbation?

Anonymous 06-10-25 17:16:49 No.2510704

>>2510693
He wasnt always an egoist. He had to come up with it

Anonymous 06-10-25 17:26:21 No.2510714

>when all of them have gone your way, humanity will be buried, and on its tomb I, sole master of myself at last, I, heir to all the human race, will shout with laughter

Anonymous 06-10-25 17:33:40 No.2510720

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I have 33% progress on Ego and His Own, I'll finish up on the Babel event in Arknights and then finish up that remainder 66%. (Though with how I read things I'll probably siart from the beginning to make sure I didn't forget anything from the third I have read.)

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