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darlingfarthings 's review for:
Siddhartha
by Hermann Hesse
Maybe to love a person is also to love life itself and we should treat all things/people/etc. with love as they are all reflections of the same thing we love which is life. Why feel disheartened when the proof of your life is right before you? Water trickles through stone. We all find our own ways.
I think the scene @ Kamala and all that made me think of Augustine and the importance of living with awareness and intention. The whole "we are all a part of life" thing made me think of the platonic ideal too on some level, as if we are all false reflections of some perfection and unity? But where Siddhartha differs is in its kinda Montaigne-y/Wittgenstein-y refusal to define virtue outside of actions. But ig if the philosophy/concept focuses on unity with the external world, it is not important to focus on words/teachings.
Anyways. I was genuinely kinda moved by this ngl! Especially in the scenes after he left Kamala. I think the foreword is right in stating that the book will hit materialism-chasing people harder because that's me rn!
There's also some stuff about embracing the process over the end result and idk there isn't really a very clear CLEAR philosophy underpinning everything ig but the novella keeps reminding you to doubt teachings and words and the importance of the end result so... perhaps it's also about the importance of philosophising and trying to act with meaning so that you can move towards virtue? Also very Augustine. It's time to leave worldly things behind for sure...
I think the scene @ Kamala and all that made me think of Augustine and the importance of living with awareness and intention. The whole "we are all a part of life" thing made me think of the platonic ideal too on some level, as if we are all false reflections of some perfection and unity? But where Siddhartha differs is in its kinda Montaigne-y/Wittgenstein-y refusal to define virtue outside of actions. But ig if the philosophy/concept focuses on unity with the external world, it is not important to focus on words/teachings.
Anyways. I was genuinely kinda moved by this ngl! Especially in the scenes after he left Kamala. I think the foreword is right in stating that the book will hit materialism-chasing people harder because that's me rn!
There's also some stuff about embracing the process over the end result and idk there isn't really a very clear CLEAR philosophy underpinning everything ig but the novella keeps reminding you to doubt teachings and words and the importance of the end result so... perhaps it's also about the importance of philosophising and trying to act with meaning so that you can move towards virtue? Also very Augustine. It's time to leave worldly things behind for sure...