/lit/ - Literature

Logical positivism was correct - all philosophy consists of illusory problems that can have no sensical answers. There is only one hero that survived. Thus reading anything beyond Aristotle is a waste of time. Only Aristotle can withstand modernity, only his books are worth studying in depth. Plato is dead.

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Zeno argues fallaciously. For he says that if
everything is always at rest when it is so with regard to what is equal to itself, and what is in movement is always like that in a now, then an arrow that is in spatial movement is unmoving. But this is false. For time is not composed of
indivisible nows any more than any other magnitude is composed of indivisibles.

My father has no social life and never took me to places when I was a kid. So now I don't know how to act around other people, but I want to become a good person and develop my virtues. Does anyone know of a book that focuses on the practice of virtue ethics and not just on the theory or the history?

This is what I mean with virtue ethics: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ethics-virtue/

Would the world be better without Aristotle's writings?

He is literally brought up in every single field in some foundational sense, it’s unreal that one man could be this lucid and accomplish all that he did in one lifetime.

He’s STILL mentioned in just about every field of science covering physics, chemistry, biology, zoology, astronomy, he’s mentioned in discussions of religion, ethics, music, literature, and philosophy.

Keep in mind he lived thousands of years ago. There’s literally no one else who compares to him that I can think of. Is it really possible Aristotle was a singular person, or was Aristotle the name the Greeks used for their collective wisdom and the consensus of all their best thinkers over a couple hundred year time period?

What is the point of science without Aristotle's four causes? Everything would essentially be happening for no reason at all. Denial of Aristotle's four causes leads us to logical nihilism yet no one in society seems to acknowledge this. Society itself would be a social construction -- morality would have no meaning, yet we continue marching on pretending that we're doing the 'right thing'.

Actually, I have Aristotle left but I'm not reading that. Seems like it would be a drag.

How has reading the Greeks changed your life?

Hi /lit/,
What are some good books if I want to study rhetoric? Specifically I'm interested in American rhetoric. I would love a book that analyzes and breaks down famous speeches.

Degenerates.

"The most hated sort, and with the greatest reason, is usury, which makes a gain out of money itself, and not from the natural object of it. For money was intended to be used in exchange, but not to increase at interest. And this term interest, which means the birth of money from money, is applied to the breeding of money because the offspring resembles the parent. Wherefore of an modes of getting wealth this is the most unnatural."

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>"the nations inhabiting the cold places and those of Europe are full of spirit but somewhat deficient in intelligence and skill, so that they continue comparatively free, but lacking in political organization and capacity to rule their neighbours."
Woah, this swarthy Greek man was just like us!