/lit/ - Literature

>>13594896
>What's the point of accumulating knowledge by reading philosophy books if you're a cumbrain at the end of the day?
To stop being a cumbrain. It might give you some advice on how to stop and get your life together. Look, I'm not shitting on fiction, I'm just saying that it has a purpose much different from philosophy. It's an art, nothing less, nothing more. It might even exalt some people's lives, but it's only as useful as one can appreciate it, and that's fine. We don't need to make this a debate about philosophy x fiction, just to state this fact : that the point of literature is not to grow wiser but to aesthetic appreciation, and you'd be mistaken if you were looking for anything else. I'm not saying fiction is useless, there are some great things worth reading but that will always depend on the artistic sensibility of the person in question, while philosophy is something more general.