/lit/ - Literature

Genuinely reaffirming that other anons ITT see the pants-on-head faggotry of OP.

I'm very biased but, of the four, philosophy is the best subject for everyone on Earth to study. I doubt that Mr. Ubungu in Macoroon will gain much from reading Shakespeare or Schiller. I have the greatest certainty that he would benefit from studying Plato. You can read the Early Moderns without understanding the geopolitical realities at the time and still get right to the heart of what it means to be human. To greater or lesser degrees, all philosophy is an inquiry into humanity.

It is good to study the natural sciences and mathematics, no doubt, but it is not for everyone. Literature is even more confining, as few authors rise above their cultural trappings and speak a truly universal message.

>JUST BE CONFIDENT BRO!!!!

w-was he right?

>>19170566
...was that supposed to be a refutation?

Why kouldn't he?

I love philosophy. I have been reading a lot of it.
Recommend me the best works to read that are NOT:
>Plato or Aristotle
>Critique of Pure Reason
>Phenomenology Spirit

What a Humeongous Kant

>>18004165

Where do I start with this li'l nigga?

>>17748986
When you look like this, you have to be smart or it’s over

A shrivelled man sat hunched over his desk, a host of candles dimly illuminating his wrinkled, old fingers as he confidently jotted down letters on his parchment. The ceaseless, mechanical ticking of a grandfather clock was all to be heard, the regular precision of its ticks being most favourable to the man’s disposition.

Tick-tock

“No, no!-time must be responsible for the necessity of the synthesis of the manifold”

Tick, tock

“We can go no further, we must see time as the absolute pre-condition of all of our synthetic statements, mathematical or otherwise!”

Tick, tock

“Those utter fools babbling on about the Beginning of Time, call themselves philosophers, do they---a pox on them, I say.”

Tick,---CRACK-BANG
“AWOOOOOOOOOOOOO! FOUR TICKS AND NOT ANOTHER TOCK SOONER, THE GOBLIN FROM ON YONDER CAN NO MORE PONDER”

The man lurched up straight in his chair, creaks running down the wooden legs. Beads of sweat trickled down his sleeves and his fingers curled up tight. The lunatics from the asylum opposite had started up again. A low snarl hissed from his clenched teeth:

“How many times need I petition that accursed Baron von Zedlitz before he disciplines those nosers?”, he sneered to himself. “Always must he thwart my thought, whether by statute or indirectly by these jeering imbeciles.”

‘“YIPEEEEEE! GOD IS DEAD, LONG LIVE GOD”--That was it, the last straw. No man of such an erudite and reasonable disposition could further subject himself to the ramblings of madmen. Yes, he would have to break the routine he had kept for more than 30 years now. Every day he had slept at precisely 10PM, he had strolled his favourite route at midday.


Fucking around a bit here. I want to joke around with Kant's character, which I find amusing. No clue where I'm going with this, I mainly want maximum comedic value extracted from Kant, and maybe a few other philosophers (which haven't even technically existed yet)

>>17636839
No it wasn't, and it never will be.

Yes, I know, based.

Kant literally shit himself in his bed /lit/, a female came to tuck him into bed and he froze where he lay. Sweat rolled down his humongous forehead, and then dripped onto his crooked, bent and jew'd nose. He quickly imagined scenarios where the woman would just walk past him or walk to the next room, only for her to just dissappear through the doorway. He wrote about the matter in a letter to his friend, David Hume: "I was trembling with the utmost fear, my mind picturing images of my stiffened shaft being noticed, that came like a visceral tidal wave, in a fraction of a second I was flipped from one mood to the next. I slowly lay my head back down with uncontrolled excrement seeping down my garments"

CATEGORICAL FEAR
A POSTERIORI TREMBLING
ABSOLUTE SHAMBLES
nice one /lit/

>>17428815
You aren't interested in literature, yet you frequent a literature discussion board?

>Take your Meds
or
>shit bait m8

Choose one.

>>17411390
>implying he had a gun and/or was capable of taking down an enraged grizzly

>>17404708
>>17404714
>>17404720
>>17404731
Nah, OPs is probably more accurate. They romanticised alot of enlightenment philos

Infinity is a transcendent concept which is outside of all possible experience, ergo it is worthless attempting synthetic judgements with it (ie mathematical judgements). Mathniggers BTFO by this one little Prussian

>>17322671

*strolls onto your path*

The thing-in-itself is just Plato's world of forms. What a fucking hack.

>>17110104
>5'2'

>the circus is coming to town

What is the bare minimum of primary material a philosopher needs to read to still function as a remotely well-rounded philosopher?

Honestly right now only Plato, Aristotle and Kant seem absolutely necessary to me. What does your list look like?