/lit/ - Literature

>>17330015

>>14806179
>I can read. This makes me smarter and better than you.

>when I first came to this board I was afraid to post thinking you guys were all super intelligent and I would get called a pseud
>now I realize this entire board is filled to the brim with idiots and just slightly speckled with intelligent posts

>>14170871
>when the professor tells me I was the first student in two decades of teaching to correctly answer her question

>>13476254

>>13437513
>not a Nazbol Catholic

>>13437714
>Nietzsche would have been a Capitalist prove me wrong
So why wasn't he?

>>13431691
>doesn't know what mathematics is

>>13396088
>I do not believe the entirety of mathematics will ever be captured.
>Doesn't know, that Gödel proved incompleteness

>>13381824

>>13375961
>Doesn't understand the trinity

>>13377134
>Christcucks are the ultimate rapefugee/immigrant loving SJW cucks
>only cites the old testament

>>13051275
>Baudrillard just isn't an impressive thinker.

>>13032076
Paris was a brainlet, he should have chosen Athene

No one ever mentions how when Plato saw Diogenes standing arms spread in the rain, he encouraged onlookers who had ran to see cover to look away and not give him any attention because that's just what he wants.

Whenever someone brings up Diogenes, they implicitly make Plato look like some prudish old fart who couldn't make sense of this BASED!! public exhibitionist who's sole claim to the philosophic tradition is some vaguely clever jabs at Plato's semantic error about defining a chicken. That his entire existence may be apocryphal only proves that the idea of a man like Diogenes MUST be invented if only to refute the idea of a Plato and the intellectual tradition he essentially birthed.

And when he is praised, I like to think these people are not the same lamenting Western civilization's decline - because, I mean, if they WERE it would be hypocrisy to the utmost degree, only justified in their reasoning on the basis that no one was fallible in Ancient Greek times; the reactionary personality finding any excuse to retain his mediocrity as a human being that does not challenge his simple, absolutist politics.

Because, yeah, no one could possibly exist like that... right?

tldr, Diogenes was the Last Man before Nietzsche even Christened the term, and he was a slightly interesting but ultimately superficial thinker whose philosophy was arrived at by the absence of contemplation and not its having stoked it.

>>11695778

>>11170570
>I haven't bothered studying it nor do I know anything about, but let me give you my opinion, because, like, dude, it seems silly to me.

>>11171182
Good thing writing wasn't his profession

>>11169938

No, your time is up

>>11157214

>Referring to written works as texts

>>11008779