/lit/ - Literature

My dream is to get them organized by year of publishing, that way you can make it clearer how they influenced the world in which posterior works were written. But it would take me a really long time to find them after a while, once I forget some of the dates.

>>6582826
When you say X is simply X you're not making any kind of argument and killing any interest the reader could have in your opinion. I agree that infanticide doesn't have the same connotation that abortion and that equating them shows a lack of understanding of the repercussion each has and the implications tied to it; but you are acting pretty retarded.

>>6498875
this sounds like a pretty comfy future.

I have a big crush on him.
When Hunter died Dolan did an article lauding him as the last writer who was true to himself and how his bad image is in great part a result of journalists disliking how open he was about things that were kept among the guild.
He also sounds as if he was taking amphetamines in the Pando Live Podcast, so he might be closer to him than you think.

Still, I'm pretty sure he is to war history what pop-sci channels are to real science.

Whoever keeps writing the Hollywood parts, I love you. Tried to follow the China section and just couldn't make it work like you do. If you could eventually take him back to Japan that would help him connect with the other characters, but that's obviously up to you.

You just learn the 5 or 7 possible word forms (each one with the same 6 conjugations in terms of structure but varying the form) and sit down with a dictionary. Verbs are always at the end, there are no conectors outside of the words since those are included in the conjugation (and most of the time are open to interpretation).
You're not gonna read it outloud, you're not gonna write it. Eventually, if you REALLY want to you'll incorporate enough words that you can lose the dictionary. It's not really that hard and there's no shame in keeping charts around.
If you know a latin language is absurdly easy. We had it in middle school and it was probably the easiest grade you could get. The teacher invented difficulties just to justify her work, she wanted us to memorize a random string of stuff that could be compressed in a single page. Because memorizing is somehow useful for a dead language.

>>6387561
Raping, as ugly as it is, has a ton of uses in desperate situations. You can subjugate a majority through it, you can increase your numbers by force. It's ugly and while I wouldn't say it's justified it is utilitarian for some.
If you want to know what's intrinsically moral you should try to understand the full variety of conditions humans can face.

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Hume was in a sense the father of Kant. In part he said that Hume inspired him to study philosophy, but in a practical way most of Kant's work is meeting Hume with Descartes, so usually it's recommended to read those two before hand. Hume also had some interesting arguments to validate a ruling bourgeois class and some other things before going the full "you can't know nuffin" route, for example he was one of the first to deal with the concept of beauty without metaphysics. He's also much easier to read, the only issue is that each section of his sentences is separated with a comma. It gets boring quickly.