/lit/ - Literature

This thread is genuinely terrible.
Plato did not have an hard-on for Atlantis. Critias makes it up just because he needed a likely (eikos, something that is not real, but it looks like it is) scenario so that he could set the mythos required by Socrates. Since he has to set the Kallipolis (as it is described in Republic) "in motion", he simply could not use any real historical example for the task.
Don't get swayed by the retards who really think that Plato was trying to tell us something real about Atlantis. This is literally some flat-earth shit, don't get suckered into that.

>>16442084
His comments on Kant actually made me seethe, I must admit it

>>16369488
>So Hume, the (currently) hyper white supremacy racist dude, woke Kant from his dogmatic slumber and told him that niggers are cool after all.
Are you daft? Do you think that Kant woke up from the dogmatic slumber, and then he immediatly started to dogmatically follow Hume, even if he refutes most of his philosophy in the 3 critiques?
>What is opus postumum?
Literally a collection of unpublished notes, and Kant thought that they led to nothing, as you surely know
>Admit it faggot, your tranny cope is retarded and you know it.
Admit what? It is a fact that Kant thought that his critical project refuted hierarchical racial theories, and it is a fact that he thought nothing of the Opus Postumuum, and it is a fact that Kant did not dogmatically follow Hume. You're the one coping, since you have to resort to lying to make your points.

>>16332389
>Jews were enslaved because God hardened the pharao's heart
Did Moses free Jews from God?

>>16294330

Is there any good argument against epiphenomenalism? The ones mentioned in the SEP entry dedicated to it did not convince me at all.

Morally speaking, how is an eternal Hell justifiable? I just don't get it.

>>16161010
>Without making an appeal to the Christian understanding of human dignity,
Can I make an appeal to Kant's notion of human dignity then?

I get that Hell and punishment are necessary, what I genuinely cannot understand is how can they be eternal in duration, assuming that God is omnibenevolent and just.
>but this would cheapen the gravity of a sin committed during one's own life
Given a long enough duration, a punishment can overshadow any possible sinful pleasure. Let's say that a moderately sinful life will land you in Hell for 12000 years, where you will get brutally tortured: no sinful life can be pleasurable enough to make those 12000 years palatable.
>but there is no time in Hell, so every punishment would be eternal by definition
Well, then Hell seems to be badly built. It didn't need to be outside of time: it being outside of time leads 1) to an exagerate punishment and 2) the impossibility of redention for people died in mortal sin, even though their redention is possible.

I really don't get it