/lit/ - Literature

Thoughts on censorship, framing, skewed history and propaganda?

>>19667696
Because pic

All Germanic goblins are hereby cancelled

>>14178770
Umm sweetie, dead white males are problematic. It's /currentyear/ bigot.

No philosopher worth a damn would be considered 'far left' by today's standards, not even close.

Read this, anons.

>>11854270
>Kant
OH NO NO NO

>>11784056
>reading these three books in 2018

Be careful

>>11494833

Kant is a rough guy.
Can hurt your feelings.

>>11294709
this book isn´t for children

SJW degeneracy creeps into every corner of culture and won't even let the past be the past

>>7792787

>still reading books written by privileged white men

This is triggered from Plato's Republic and about the inherent value of goodness or justice.

In the beginning of the dialogue the question is “what is justice?” But it quickly transforms into “what is the value of justice?” In other words, if goodness wins us no reward, then what value does it have? Is it valuable in its own right? Would it have value even if it cost us something, or indeed cost us everything?

Paraphrasing: “What if the perfectly just man is seen by everyone as perfectly unjust, while the perfectly unjust man is seen as perfectly just?” The speaker then puts it on Socrates to effectively prove that, even in this scenario, justice would be worth it.

Is goodness worth it even if it isn’t profitable sexually or socially? It’s the same question. In romance, we may ask “what if the perfectly good man is seen as perfectly unattractive to women, while the perfectly evil man is seen as perfectly attractive?”

Why be a ‘good’ man when what we consider good by both personal and social measures isn’t rewarded (or only grudgingly rewarded), while what we consider ‘bad’ is what is enthusiastically rewarded with women’s genuine desire and intimacy? She doesn’t care about what men consider good or bad.

It seems like this is the predicament awareness the asshole is like puts us in when we have to consider the value of our formerly weaker self. What makes the weak the was he is, is his weakness, of course, but it is simultaneously his civility. We’re not defective people for wanting or even needing the possibility love, empathy, truth, friendship, kindness, and – above all else – trust in our lives. It just makes us human. If we project our deeply rooted desires for these things and treat others the way we want to be treated, wouldn’t society be better off for it? And isn’t this what the supplicating, loyal beta does when latches on to a woman he believes to the “the One?”

>>7470032

Daily reminder that kant was a misogynistic, patriarchal shitlord

problematic tbqh

Finally someone put that bigot Immanuel "skinhead" Kant in his place.