/lit/ - Literature

Whatever you've enjoyed, find what 'it' actually is that pulls you, find it now hidden in what you've passed by.
Also: fast, dopamine fast, nofap fast, internet fast, move fast (don't do anything at all for hours), rest fast (go for a walk for hours), empty yourself. Deprive yourself of comfort and habits, do something new.

>>15102583
>>15102605
You're obviously talking about the idea of hidden wisdom as holy, since one you are implying it isn't real, thus worldly illusion.
Plato confirmed a prophet.

>>14977230
Not until Christians start understanding that ontological causality isn't time bound.
You say that the son proceeds from the father, this literally means that the father causes the son, and is therefore superior to the son. Then you'll have to decide whether this emanation is a necessary causation or a freely willed one. I presume it has to be a necessary act of the Father's Hypostasis, but this makes the father himself a super-essential one, where he and is his nature are the same without distinction. I believe Pseudo-Dionysius says the father and godhead are identical.
Also, the Son and Spirit do not participate in their own emanation, therefore they do not share everything the father has or is—but this contradicts the father being the same as the godhead, so he must be even superessential of this, making the godhead a tertiary impersonal being that unites the trinity under one external act (everything external of the trinity is done as a whole by the trinity, thus they are One in all external acts as a triad). But thus doesn't undo the fact that the father is the Hyparxis of the trinity avd its godhead, in a way he's the godhead of a triad of two Hypostases and one Impersonal Hypostasis, or the Monad of these; or he's the Monad of the Dyad of the Son and Spirit; or he's beyond the difference between Object and Subject and is both the nature of himself and the trinity yet the nature and the son/spirit are suspended from him. Either way, the Father is [internally] greater than the son and spirit and his nature.

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>Plato
>Plutarch
>Plotinus
>Pletho
>PLOTANON

>Favorite Platonic dialogue and why
>classics that you are reading right now
>expected future readings

CHARTS
Start with the Greeks
>https://i.warosu.org/data/lit/img/0086/04/1476211635020.jpg
>https://i.warosu.org/data/lit/img/0099/17/1503236647667.jpg
>https://i.warosu.org/data/lit/img/0098/47/1501831593974.jpg

Resume with the Romans
>https://i.warosu.org/data/lit/img/0080/46/1463433979055.jpg
>https://i.warosu.org/data/lit/img/0086/97/1478569598723.jpg


ONLINE RESOURCES
>http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/ (Translations, Original Texts, Dictionaries)
>http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/home.html (Translations)
>https://pleiades.stoa.org/ (Geography)
>https://plato.stanford.edu/ (Philosophy)
>http://www.mqdq.it/public/indici/autori
>http://www.attalus.org/info/sources.html
>http://www.attalus.org/translate/index.html
>http://digiliblt.lett.unipmn.it/index.php (Site in Italian)
>http://www.library.theoi.com/ (Translations)
>https://www.hs-augsburg.de/~harsch/a_chron.html (Site in Latin)
>https://droitromain.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr/
>http://www.earlymedievalmonasticism.org/Corpus-Scriptorum-Ecclesiasticorum-Latinorum.html (CSEL)
>http://www.papyrology.ox.ac.uk/POxy/ (Oxyrhynchus Papyri)
>http://db.edcs.eu/epigr/epi.php?s_sprache=en (Epigraphy)
>http://epigraphy.packhum.org/ (Ephigraphy)
>http://papyri.info/

THREAD THEME
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6-0Cz73wwQ

>>10807065

>OP discovers meaning of life
>posts it on a korean anime board
>does not actually even fully discloses what his discovery is

Just give up, OP. You have be BTFO so badly I can feel the pieces of gore splattering against the internal side of my computer screen

>>10776400
>>10776250
If you were to have read 2600+ books, and of the things you say, you'd be able to write whatever nonfiction tome you desire, both how and why.
Which you aren't doing, so believe you haven't actually read the right stuff, nor have you apperceived them.
Behold!
>Journey to the Land of the Real
>The School for Scandal and Other Plays
>The Oxford Dictionary of Allusions
>The Principal Works of St. Jerome
>St. Jerome
>The Booke of Ovyde Named Methamorphose
>The Book of the Courtier
>The Decameron
>The Life of Henry Brulard
>The Fact of a Doorframe
>The Red and the Black
>Poetic Edda
>Men and Events: Historical Essays
>Memoirs of a Superfluous Man
>Voltaire's Bastards
>James Clarence Mangan: Selected Writings
>The Works of Sir Walter Scott
>Seven Pillars of Wisdom
>Seeing Islam as Others Saw It
>The Autobiography of the Emperor Charles V
>The Poetical Works of Horace Smith
>SarvaDarsanaSamgraha
>The Fable of the Bees and Other Writings
>The Pilgrim's Progress
>Hudibras
>The Lady: Studies of Certain Significant Phases of Her History
>Les Caractères
>Iphigenia / Phaedra / Athaliah
>The Kindness of Strangers: The Abandonment of Children in Western Europe from Late Antiquity to the Renaissance
>Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self
>The Murder of Charles the Good, Count of Flanders.
>Moment of Freedom
>The Autobiography of Giambattista Vico
>History and Adventures of an Atom
>THE MEMOIRS OF THE DUKE OF SAINT SIMON
>The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert
>The White Goddess
>Norms and Practices, and, Virtues and Vices
>Four Princes: Henry VIII, Francis I, Charles V, Suleiman the Magnificent and the Obsessions that Forged Modern Europe
>The Life of Saint Simeon Stylites
>The memoirs of the Duke of Sully
>Lament for Ur
>Athenaeus
>The Four Voyages: Being His Own Log-Book, Letters and Dispatches with Connecting Narratives
>The Autobiography Of Benvenuto Cellini
>Montaigne
>Erasmus
>The House of Intellect
> Made in the trenches, composed entirely from articles & sketches contributed by soldiers.
> Ben Jonson of Westminster
>Complete Letters of Vincent Van Gogh
>The Dyer's Hand
>The Nuremberg Interviews
>Table Talk - Being the Discourses of John Selden
>Mozart: A Life in Letters
>The Diary of William Bentley, D.D.
>New Science
>The Crisis of the European Mind
>The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci
>Human Destiny
>Bertrand De Jouvenel
>Arts and Ideas
>Good Behavior: Being a Study of Certain Types of Civility
>The Human Condition
>Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition
>Pragmatism and Other Writings
I think I run out of space.

>>10671951
>How much IQ do you need to have to be a great writer?
>145 IQ
>against minimalism
>great writer
>advocates verbiage

>Now, I would like for no more falsehoods to pollute the integrity of the brilliant discussion my thread can produce. Although maybe that is not fair to say, as any cooperation between high IQ folk leads to the extraordinary. Either way, as such I would really like for no one whose IQ is below 145 to post in this thread. Thank you, and I pity you.

>It might be unfair to say that I would like for no more falsehoods to pollute the rich discussion my thread could produce; as any cooperation between high IQ folk leads to the extraordinary. Either way, I would like none whose IQ is below 145 to post in this thread. Thank you, I do pity you.

>The Ten and Four Books of Architecture.
>Michelangelo's and Leonardo's Notebooks.
>Composition of Scientific Words
>A History of Western Music
>The Neuroscience of Intelligence
>The New Encyclopedia of Modern Bodybuilding
>A History of the Theories of Aether and Electricity: Vol. I: The Classical Theories; Vol. II: The Modern Theories, 1900-1926
>The Horse, the Wheel, and Language
>The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World
>Advanced Macroeconomics David Romer
>Modern Economics - Jack Harvey
>Main Currents of Marxism
>On Politics: A History of Political Thought From Herodotus to the Present
>Memory of the World, and, The Encyclopedia of Earth
>SAS Survival Handbook
>SAS Urban Survival Handbook
>Philosophy Between the Lines: The Lost History of Esoteric Writing
>The Spark of Life
You can't learn to actually make great music/art.

I just realized I have no idea what adultery actually means; always imagined it to just be sex outside of marriage.
But apparently it's cheating while actually being married.

The Enigma of Reason
Four Princes
On Tyranny
The Great Leveler
Genocide in the Ottoman Empire
The Invention of Science
World Order: Reflections on the Character of Nations and the Course of History
The Meaning of Human Existence
Alan Ryan On Politics
1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed
Revolutionary Ideas
Inventing the Individual
After Hegel: German Philosophy, 1840-1900
Philosophy Between the Lines: The Lost History of Esoteric Writing
The Hall of Uselessness: Collected Essays
The German Genius
A History of France from the Earliest Times to the Treaty of Versailles
The Horse, the Wheel, and Language
Lost to the West
The Inheritance of Rome
Seeing Islam as Others Saw It
The Great Tradition
Mind in Life
The Pursuit of Glory: Europe 1648-1815
After Tamerlane: The Global History of Empire Since 1405
Rites of Peace: The Fall of Napoleon and the Congress of Vienna
The Man Who Forgot How To Read
Iron Kingdom
The Origin of Wealth: Evolution, Complexity, And the Radical Remaking of Economics
Ideas: A History of Thought and Invention, from Fire to Freud
How Rich Countries Got Rich And Why Poor Countries Stay Poor
Constant Battles
The Nuremberg Interviews
All of the "Cambridge history books series"
Rubicon
In the Name of Rome: The Men Who Won the Roman Empire
The Mystique of Enlightenment: The Radical Ideas of U.G. Krishnamurti
German Idealism: The Struggle Against Subjectivism, 1781-1801
A Jacques Barzun Reader
Carnage and Culture
In Ruins
The Palace of Darius at Susa
The Righteous Mind
Vanished Kingdoms
Pluralism
30-Second Philosophies (actually bretty fun)
A New History of Western Philosophy
Today I Wrote Nothing
Science Of Memory: Concepts
Broadsides: The Age of Fighting Sail, 1775-1815
Orderly and Humane
The Book of Prefaces
John Rawls stuff
Autopsy for an Empire
The G Factor: The Science of Mental Ability
The Sociology of Philosophies: A Global Theory of Intellectual Change
The Black Book of Communism
Race, Evolution, and Behavior: A Life History Perspective
The Rape of Nanking
Europe - Davies, Norman
A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution: 1891-1924
The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
On Pain
Landscape And Memory
Keeping Together in Time
Death by Government
Kissinger Diplomacy
Ordinary Men
Paved with Good Intentions
The Myth of Primitivism
Quasi Rational Economics
The Passion of the Western Mind

too many books
desu
just read
>From Dawn to Decadence

>Worldbuilding
easy
>Characters
I have infinite faces
>plot
lmao just start imagine shit
>any form dialogue, at all
What now . . . What now! The images are seen within, but no words can be found.
I can't hold a conversation in real life; how am I to write them! WOE UNTO ME

Slavoj Zizek, Noam Chomsky, or Norm Macdonald?

>on average
Not at all.

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>>10148926
>Maybe I should have written ‘neechee ackshully admired he jews’ for what the Redditfags say

So you admit you are engaging in a strawman. No matter, it was blatant from the get-go.

I'll level with you: Why don't you take this imaginary conceit up with whatever imaginary subreddit it is that universally adheres to this interpretation of Knee-Chi you find so abhorrent, instead of fishing for approval here?

>>10096754
What's funny it is called "State" in many countries not "Republic", as the original name is "Πολιτεία" (Politeia).
I know, I'm fun at parties.

>>9215041

if youre not retarded pray to your fictional moondaddy for a basic degree of logic before even considering philosophy