/lit/ - Literature

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>Sayre
>Reale
Here's a good book review that summarizes the debate about the unwritten, esoteric doctrines of Plato.
https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/1998/1998.07.22/

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>Directed by Malick you mean? Brad Pitt and Jessica Chastain starred in it from memory. Malick directed it.
Yeah, directed. I have no idea why I said starring. If you care, I think it's I immediately thought "it starred Brad Pitt" but then was like "that's a really stupid detail, why did I even care about that? Malick (who studied existentialism deeply) is way more important." But then I forgot to change the key detail. I've been having problems lately where I think faster than I type, and it's getting the point where it worries me.
>To be brusque, the way you describe yourself, I don't think you're an example of what I was talking about.
Sorry, which example? You offered two examples. Pseudo-empathetic sperg? I'm not offended, just trying to understand.
>I'm going to surmise that you have a epistemological preference for academic material perceiving the rigor and authority of "qualitative studies" like those from sociology or psychology journals as somehow getting closer to the truth of the matter.
I have a more unstructured way of inquiry. I like to "collect", "distill", see if there's any missing pieces to look for, and leave room for lacunae. Qualitative studies gives me ideas, that's all. But I'm acutely aware of the unreliable narrator effect, so I try to read between the lines.
>If you consider social skills, speaking and writing, as analogous to any other skill set (as indeed Aristotle did) then reading literature on them can only teach you Explicit knowledge, but not the Implicit Knowledge that makes you an expert. Implicit knowledge is synonymous, but perhaps unfairly so, with instinct, gut feelings, "organic", and flow.
I agree. And it's not unfair at all. Embodied cognition is highly underrated.
>Simply put, you can't learn it from a book, because you don't know what you don't know.
But I can try to put it into practice, can't I? It's not like I'm starting from absolute zero knowledge. If I had no emotions, no social skills, then I'd be dead or way worse off than I currently am now.