/lit/ - Literature

If you haven’t read this you should. If you have, you admit you can’t deny this. It destroys all religions and puts your life in your own hand

Cicero debunked all metaphysical ""knowledge"" in this text

Start with the Sceptics

Debunked by the sceptics

take the sceptic pill anons..

>On this question, the pronouncements of highly learned men are so varied and so much at odds with each other that inevitably they strongly suggest that the explanation is human ignorance, and that the Academics have been wise to withhold assent on matters of such uncertainty; for what can be more degrading than rash judgement, and what can be so rash and unworthy of the serious and sustained attention of a philosopher, as either to hold a false opinion or to defend without hesitation propositions inadequately examined and grasped?
—Cicero, The Nature of the Gods, 1.1

>be theist
>read this
>realise I was completely wrong about everything

I prefer philosophical scepticism to "atheism"

>On this question, the pronouncements of highly learned men are so varied and so much at odds with each other that inevitably they strongly suggest that the explanation is human ignorance, and that the Academics have been wise to withhold assent on matters of such uncertainty; for what can be more degrading than rash judgement, and what can be so rash and unworthy of the serious and sustained attention of a philosopher, as either to hold a false opinion or to defend without hesitation propositions inadequately examined and grasped?
—Cicero, The Nature of the Gods

Has there ever been a book that has done a better job of exposing theists as the brainlets that they are?

>There are very few handsome people. During my time in Athens, it was hard to find a single handsome lad in every platoon of national servicemen. I know why you're grinning, but my observation is true. A further point: those of us who take our cue from the philosophers of old, and enjoy the company of young men, often find even their physical defects attractive. For Alcaeus, the mole upon a young lad's wrist appeals; though a mole is a physical blemish, the poet considers it a beauty spot.
What did Cicero (in the speaker of Cotta) mean by this?