/lit/ - Literature

>I went to Athens and no one knew me
>I would rather know one cause than be King of all Persia
sorry platofags, these are the most kino quotes of any philosopher. Democritus is literally me.

1. What it means to be being is to be all that is; or, the essence of Being is the essence of the un-individuation of everything that exists; or, Being is the unification of the All; or, Being is the All qua All; or, Being is the whole of everything collapsed into a point. This essence is not posterior to everything but simultaneous with everything, and is only defined in terms of everything to aid human cognition.
2. The un-individuated (i.e. Being or the All qua All) is fully present in every individuation, fully perceived in everything, and the precondition for the perception of everything. It is common to all. That which is perceived in perception that is Being is something analogous to experience itself, and this is not consciousness or dependent on mind.
3. Everything that is in the All is, and there is nothing that is not in the All. There is no non-Being.
4. Everything that can be, is; or else it is only in potential, which is to say that it is not. For many things that are not have signs which are supposed to refer to them, or ideas which are supposed to refer to them, but which do not. So the ideas can be, and therefore exist, but because what they are supposed to be ideas of cannot be, the representanda do not exist. They are not really ideas of anything, but mere fantasies. One such idea is the idea of nothingness.
5. Things are individuated by continuous media.
6. The things in the media get their essence from how they are individuated therein.
7. The All is like a mass of interdependent stuff that is composed of absolutely infinite relations and things.
8. Media are the bridges between relations and things; a medium is a thing built out of relations.
9. Being itself is a medium, a thing, and a relation all at once.
10. Change is a medium, and therefore defines the essence of things within it. But for organisms that do not change, the essence of a thing within change is perceived at once, as unchanging. Again, both the future and the past of a thing are present in its present essence (since the All qua All is present in everything in the All), so the essence of everything that changes is complete. These two facts mean there is no "indeterminate" or "potential" stuff required to explain how things become; that is, becoming is not becoming into something that is not, but into something that is.
11. The All is not good, just, or beautiful. Similarly, it is not bad, unjust, or ugly.
12. There are no gods. For interdependence dictates that nothing can have power over everything else; neither was there any being that created all other beings, for every being is self existent by virtue of the self existence of Being itself; neither can any being have knowledge of every other being, for then it would be the All and therefore not a being but all beings.
13. Knowledge of all this lacks meaning, for I have merely stated in different words that the universe is, which was already self-evident.

>>12422159
Define "save"
Define "western"
Define "civilisation"

>mfw people think classical works of philosophy are just superficial elaborations on concepts and not mystic texts designed to unconsciously trigger higher awareness in the reader

>>10827535
>När man ser svenskar i /lit/

>>10572307
Rush
"The Pass"

Proud swagger out of the school yard
Waiting for the world's applause
Rebel without a conscience
Martyr without a cause

Static on your frequency
Electrical storm in your veins
Raging at unreachable glory
Straining at invisible chains

And now you're trembling on a rocky ledge
Staring down into a heartless sea
Can't face life on a razor's edge
Nothing's what you thought it would be

All of us get lost in the darkness
Dreamers learn to steer by the stars
All of us do time in the gutter
Dreamers turn to look at the cars
Turn around and turn around and turn around
Turn around and walk the razor's edge
Don't turn your back
And slam the door on me

It's not as if this barricade
Blocks the only road
It's not as if you're all alone
In wanting to explode

Someone set a bad example
Made surrender seem all right
The act of a noble warrior
Who lost the will to fight

And now you're trembling on a rocky ledge
Staring down into a heartless sea
Done with life on a razor's edge
Nothing's what you thought it would be

No hero in your tragedy
No daring in your escape
No salutes for your surrender
Nothing noble in your fate
Christ, what have you done?

>>10553150

Does a writers appearence matter, or do they write because of how they look? What if the next big writer was as big as Schwarzeneggar, would anyone take him seriously as the representation of an image has been flipped?

>have to write an essay about the influence of John Cage's 4'33"
>turn in a blank sheet of paper
>get an A
>mfw

>pre-socratics

ayyy bby how bout u eat dis meat in my pants

get u some morality of dis ethickness

>>6550280

>hearclitus
>obscure

laughingdemocritus.claytablet

>>6379146
There are no colours, only atoms.

>>6377855

>salad for breakfast

>>6325113

>Democritus

>anime

>He isn't an Atomist!

Is materialism compatible with the moral law?

People are increasingly turning to science to answer life's questions. Is philosophy obsolete or do you envision philosophy becoming a branch of science?

Is there a proper relationship between science and philosophy?