/lit/ - Literature

>>21773314
>Phenomenologically, from his first person point of view which is the only one which matters in this circumstance? Absolutely there would be no difference between Napoleon never having lived and napoleon being dead if both are the lack-of-conscious
So you would say that, if death were to be the end of life, then anything that happens to mortals is completely inconsequential because they always end up dead and oblivious in the end? If you did not believe in an immortal spirit, would it be okay to torture someone just because in the future they would lack consciousness? I would say that even if an experience is shortlived and may not be eternally remembered, it still matters in that moment. I don't think temporality and mortality nullify morality.

From that perspective, it would be false to say that suicide "solves" having been born within the context of the consent argument, because even when the person eventually is dead those moments between his birth and death have still been forced upon him.

Going to sleep now so won't respond for a bit, gn m8

>>10256966
Socrates.

>>7566852

/lit/ hath spoken

Does /lit/ have any personal recommendations for reading the Greeks? Any good links or charts for myths/philosophy/plays?

>Apology at 7

I can only imagine the Socratic level banter occurring within

>>7087840

>actually discussing authors
>says this not realizing discussions of authors are actually sad toss-the-antique-meme shows

Who was the funniest philosopher?

What are key texts to understanding philosophical skepticism?

How does Socrates define soul/virtue?

Books are for faggots.

Why did he believe in extreme physical fitness if he thought the physical body was cumbersome and misleading?

>>6462215
>philosophy is written down

Blasphemous rigmarole.

This thread is for each and every person on /lit/ who has ever expressed the sentiment that reading makes you superior.

I want to know from you superior people what is the virtue of reading.

>>6232933
Not a novel, but I'll be damned if philosophy can't help.
If you really can't take it, just watch some of these before going. it's not like you'd lose anything anyway.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVA8jX9KQcE&list=PL7857933243B7D31B

>>6235611
With the Greeks

They all get drunk.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQycQ8DABvc

A young man asked Socrates the secret to success. Socrates told the young man to meet him at his house the next morning. They met. Socrates asked the young man to walk with him towards his bedroom. When Socrates had the boy completely vulnerable he took his pants off and shoved his giant cock in his mouth and plugged his nose. Then came all over his mouth. Socrates pulled him out of his cock and the first thing the young man did was to gasp and take a deep breath of air. Socrates asked, "What did you want the most when you were there?" The boy replied, "Air." Socrates said, "That is the secret to success. When you want success as badly as you wanted the air, then you will get it."

Would try to ask questions leading to the inevitable, 'Yes you are entirely correct' finale but thread will have broken down into Baneposting midway there.

>>6136971
Yes

My friend has told me he wants to improve his skills in analysis and criticism in (I assume) the broadest sense. I offered to recommend him some literature. I'm considering lending him the Plato's Republic as a start to basic Socratic method, but I think it would bore him a little.

I'd also considered some of Camus' short books, the Fall specifically as a means to open him up to philosophy gently.

What would /lit/ recommend? My friend's not a big reader so any light suggestions, even short essays would be appreciated.

>>5959499

But OP, I only know that I know nothing.

we know nothing

>>5115803

Talk to people about philosophy you dumb nigger.

did socrates really exist or is he a myth like jesus?

all the "evidence" we have of socrates really existing are a few books written by his followers after he died and these works seem to me to be fiction