/lit/ - Literature

>>16708348
there are many, many definitions. I'll avoid the scholarly autism and propose my own: a tradition that takes the suffering of the finite subject/animal/even plant (if you're a Manichaean) as the only valid condition of truth. from there, an inner knowledge of what must be true for finite beings to protest against the conditions of their cosmic enslavement follows into an inner knowledge of the True God.

>>16708317
No, it's an inverted platonism. Every day millions if not billions of beings are eaten by beings who will be eaten in turn, either by predators or the dust from whence they came. no thoughtful, mature person can call this creation harmonious or somehow evolving towards a final perfection.

>>16565282
>>16565409
Thanks for reading, anons.