/lit/ - Literature

>>23123003
Yeah, maybe. I don’t know. Why don’t you read his works and decide for yourself?

>>23117440
If you can’t categorize stuff and memorize the stuff worth remembering then literature just isn’t for you. You don’t need a book on how to write notes.

>>23110783
Greek philosophy comes from that crappy b movie they showed on mst3k?

>>23102952
>science didn’t exist before the scientific method was officially codified

>philosophy?
>you have to start from the GREEKS dude

>>23059723
>no, I can't say it in simple english because... I just can't! okay!?
continental philosophy everyone

>>22996812
Plutarch: the tropical island of Calypso and Ulysses is le… in the middle of the North Atlantic Ocean

He was certainly not the geographer.

>>22981070
>I will kill uou if you are a man but not if you are a god. Tell me your entire backstory.
>>I am bla bla bla of bla bla. My forefather brought a message to the king of Lycia telling the guy to murder him because he was dumb as hell but then he got the upper hand and btfo a bunch of tasks and did shit so then he won and became friends for life
>wow, that’s cool. We should trade armor. Here, take my bronze armor and I will take your iron
>>>Homer/ the narrator: Yeah, he wasn’t the brightest man around so he traded his armor worth 100 cows for armor worth 10 cows

>>22956380
Well both you and the guy who wrote that post are smoothbrain halfwits so it’s okay.

The oral poem documents historical figures for the people listening. Just because you make nothing of it doesn’t mean its intended audience didn’t derive enjoyment or info out of learning of their own local history told to them.

>>22937428
>the villain of the poem is actually le misunderstood heroine guuurl power

>>22935823
Th- that’s not how that works. Real life isn’t Silence of the Lambs. You don’t overcompensate with your brain matter in other areas by having no amygdala.

>this ESL who can barely speak English correctly signed off on a translation I personally don’t approve of! That offends me quite a bit!

>>22842196
>the majority of burgers confuse your and you're regularly and don't understand Shitspeare

>write a love letter confessing your feelings
>accidentally put your own name in the address field

Was Paul from Cocteau’s novel a major idiot? What was his problem? Pic related- it’s Paul from Enfants

>>22766430
Not being is by its definition not imaginable to us because of the limitations of our material works. Speculating on its existence or non-existence is futile.

>>22768431
Wait, are you saying this image implies our world is a corporeal version of a different, temporal world outside of it? I can’t even grasp that in my head. What would a copied version of this world look like?

>>22756492
He was also filtered by Edmund Burke apparently because here >>22762228 he likens him to a “first year philosophy student” (the fucking irony!)

Fire is a triangle from a parallel universe

>>22700974
He is also a fan of Callicles and Plato apparently which I learned on Reddit. He thinks Plato was like a secret atheist, Machiavellian tyrannical guy and he agreed with Callicles and Thrasymachus in the dialogues or something similarly stupid.

>>22696351
He was an open socialist and his books were burned in Nazi Germany, dummy.

>>22670768
And both are equally true as Forms because the human mind has inherent cognition which is in touch with the One. If those dietary classifications of antiquity were not connected in some way to the Forms they represent then man would never have conjured them up.

Fire doesn’t exist. What you see is actually not real. Real fire is a triangle which exists in a different universe from ours which you can’t experience or see.

>>22637799
The Timaeus

“Fire is actually an isosceles triangle in another universe”

“Fire doesn’t actually exist in the real world”
“It is actually an isosceles triangle which exists in a parallel dimension you can’t experience with your senses”

-the worlds smartest philosopher