/lit/ - Literature

>>16319691
>It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
Some concessions about only fucking in marriage.
>6But I say this as a concession, not as a commandment. 7For I wish that all men were even as I myself. But each one has his own gift from God, one in this manner and another in that.

8But I say to the unmarried and to the widows: It is good for them if they remain even as I am; 9but if they cannot exercise self-control, let them marry. For it is better to marry than to burn with passion.

He says three times in the same letter that the best thing is to be celibate.

David and Elias Introductions to Philosophy with Olympiodorus Introduction to Logic.
Porphyry Isagoge/Introduction to Aristotle's Categories (then the Categories)
Anonymous Prolegomena to Platonic Philosophy (probably by Olympiodorus)
Plato's Alcibiades I then Olympiodorus Commentary on Plato's Alcibiades
Optionally: Simplicius Commentary on Epictetus Enchiridion. Then Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics.
You can find most of these following the link in the sticky, don't be daunted by the quantity of titles most of them are under 50 pages. The same for all of Plato's Dialogues.

You'll know now what to read next, they'll tell you.

Six Volumes of the new translation of Proclus Commentary on the Timaeus (it's one book cut up into 6 pieces for cash)
Faulkner's Coffin Texts One Volume Edition

>>16060480
Yes.
We have this idea in the west that artists are divinely inspired, the proof being the beauty and sublimity and symbolic power of their work.
One can say something similar about Mahabarata or however it's spelled, it's extremely poorly written.
Then the philosophical exegeses of India, God damn it's long winded. Only Proclus is comparable.

Third Positionism/Post-liberalism is morally pseudo-subjectivist, if Fuckoh had lived another two decades he'd have become a super sovereignite, muh Power dynamics.