/lit/ - Literature

>>21008328
You should watch Michael Sugrues Lectures on the book you´re reading: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFaYLR_1aryjfB7hLrKGRaQ its great and he´s really enthusiastic.
>>21008377
>Then I read the republic or something and it's like "Yeah let's just not have parents or children anymore, and tell people they have literal bronze and gold in their blood." and it's like...what the fuck?
The metals means that not everyone is born equal. Some have inherent qualities which makes them suitible for certain tasks. A kind of antique eugenics. From what I remember Plato explains this earlier via the custom of breeding dogs.
You seem to get filtered anon, which is okay. I was personally filtered by early wittgenstein but moved on. The thing about reading philosophy is that it´s like sewing something. The lonely strings with strange forms and colors seem odd at first, but when winter has arrived and your glove is finished you see what function those strings had and the patterns in which the colors reside. Thats my best way of explaining it.

>BTFO'ed by Hegel.

>>19776375
SCA-JI posts on /lit/. There is no way he doesn't considering contents of subahibi. If you are reading this, give me sakura no toki, don't make me wait any longer.

Every now and then, someone posts a list of childless of philosophers. I want to compile a list of philosophers who had children, and were present in their children's lives. Might be a short list, but I'm interested if they approach ethical questions with the perspective one would expect of a parent.

I'll throw down Hegel on the list first.

What are some books/authors that are generating brand new, wholly new political/economic systems. I was thinking the other day about a minarchy that contained a large amount of city states, and gave those city states complete sovereignty, only limiting them in geographical and population size, in which if a single state got too big it would need to split into another state. These city states would compete for tax revenue by adopting certain political and economic systems in themselves, thus creating a free market of city states. I call it agorapolis

>>16386153
i appreciate the shape of your reply, that each line decreases in length, making it look like a poem. it was worth making this thread just for this one supportive response, so thanks.
i wholeheartedly agree. all good art has some element of transgression in it, but transgression on its own doesn't make a work worthwhile.

i think it'd be interesting to make a work where nothing bad happens, where everybody is morally perfect and nothing goes wrong. how boring would that be? it's almost like that's what people want. even in the most pedestrian of fictions - a show like modern family, for instance - there still has to be some sort of conflict, otherwise there's no story. the demand for this perfect harmonious utopia where nothing bad every happens is antithetical not only to freedom of thought and expression but to life itself. life itself is conflict and struggle. any good work of art depicts conflict and struggle, and that isn't necessarily "dark".
to ignore struggle and conflict is to eliminate spirit. spirit is that which tarries with the negative and with death. ironically there's nothing spiritual about such new age spirituality which shies away from the darkness. there's no light without the dark.
>Stay grounded, and good luck
thanks my friend. i'm a pretty new writer, i'm just getting started. i wouldn't even consider myself a writer yet. just trying to write a thousand words a day, maybe in a year or two i'll have built some chops.
>Hopefully you post your stuff somewhere on here when it's done.
i will when it's good enough. i have a long way to go!