/lit/ - Literature

>>16509605
I strongly believe the general outline of history is predetermined so naturally my position is one of an observer, one who does not wish to take part in the unfolding of history, but neither surrender to it.

>>15128769
Incredibly and inconceivably based

Who are some anti Enlightenment thinkers? I have read Vico and de Maistre so far.

>Unless one is pious one cannot truly be wise.
Holy based

>>14669558
"We live in sovereign civil kingdoms subject to the supreme sovereign God, whose providence is recognized by all sovereign civil powers. This is made plain to human understanding by the explicit avowal of sovereign powers in adding to their titles of majesty such phrases as "by divine providence" or "by the grace of God," through which they must publicly profess to have received their kingdoms. So that if worship of providence were forbidden, the natural consequence would be their fall, for a nation of fatalists or casualists or atheists never existed in the world."

"The Stoics seek to mortify the senses and the Epicureans make them the criterion. For both deny providence, the former chaining themselves to fate, the latter abandoning themselves to chance. The latter moreover affirm that the human soul dies with the body. Both should be called monastic or solitary philosophers."

"Minds, to make good use of the knowledge of God, must humble themselves, just as on the other hand arrogance will lead them to atheism, for atheists become giants in spirit, ready to say with Horace: Caelum if sum pettmus stultitia, "heaven itself we assail in our folly."

Read Giambattista Vico.