/lit/ - Literature

I'd like to take a second to congratulate this board.
Through the powers of memes such as "start with the Greeks" and "the meme trilogy" you guys are pushing people to read homer, joyce and other incredible authors. All the bullying that goes on here is like Epictetus' bullying people into reaching some unattainable idea of the wise man: people here are scolded, ridiculed and called plebs despite how much they read, and in the process some of them end up reading more. I ended up discovering a lot of cool literature thanks to you guys.
So, putting all the toxicity of this place aside, I think you are doing some genuine good here. Thank you.

>>10720382

It's called anamnesis anon. It was intended and it is not a coincidence. Tell me all about it.

>>10717749

Forms are not ideas in the mind, for Plato, but separated universals which have exist independently from the mind. They are "being", which means they are always the same and never change. Since they are stable (unchanging), they are the only thing you can have actual knowledge of. The Forms are the cause of being and qualities possessed by things in the sensible world. They are the reason why we use the same predicate to describe different things e.g. things are beautiful because they all refer to the form of the beautiful. We use the predicate beautiful to describe multiple things because they all participate in the form of the beautiful.
Since they are unchanging - which is the only way in which something truly exist, by being always itself and never something else - they cannot change, nor being deleted: they always existed and will always exist.

Things in the sensible world, instead, are "becoming", in the sense that they are never the same and always change. It is said of them that they "are and are-not", which means they are once one thing and then another: they do not exist as fully as the forms and they acquire qualities because they are "shaped" by the forms - as water inside a channel.
Since they are always in flux, it is impossible to have knowledge of sensible things.

>>10676224

Dear anon,

it has always been my dream in life to have my bookshelves filled with ancient books on mysticism and retire in the countryside with a gun to shoot everyone who even dares to come near my house (mailman included, I'll get my books going downtown on my sled pulled by six alaskan huskies). So please, tell me: how old are you and how did you come to own both Plotinus and a gun? I want to know about your life (in green text maybe) and learn how to become an ascetic gun-wielding monk myself. If you could tell me bits of your story, I would be very grateful to you.

Best wishes,

anon

>>10661238

yes but only if you identify the One with the Good.