/lit/ - Literature

HAVE YOU READ SOCRATES?

In fairness to Nietzsche the turbomanlet, Socrates was fucking ugly, and it does kind of explain everything.
Then you have Kant the virgin goblin-midget... Sartre the cross-eyed goblin-midget...
etc., etc.
I dunno, are there a disproportionate number of physically deformed philosophers, or is that confirmation bias?

>2 + 2 is never 5
>therefore the afterlife is real

If you had sex with your clone, would that be gay or masturbation?

>>8186072

To define good and evil we must use an objective standard of measurement. It would be madness to use a system for weights and distances, but not for the most important measurement, the distinction between good and evil.

So how do we judge anything to be good? A good knife is one that cuts well. A good soap is one that cleans well. We can say then that things are considered good to the extent that they fulfill their function or by how much of their defining value they possess. We must judge humans by the same measure. What is the function of man? To fulfill the role of a human being. What then is the defining value of human beings? What sets us apart from other creatures? The use of our rational faculty. A human then is good in so far as he is rational.

What do you think of Socrates' acceptance of his death sentence?

He says that death is no evil, and on this I agree. But in his case it was certainly not good either. He was given the function of moral gadfly by 'the god', and by choosing to die (and that is what he did, by his own admission in Crito where he says he could have suggested exile at his trial and received it as a sentence) he left empty the post in which god had placed him, with no one to take his place. This was a great moral loss to the state which sentenced him to death and to whom he was so loyal and reverent. Had he chosen exile, he might at least have prevented those who accused him from committing the wrong of sentencing an innocent man to death. He argues that he must obey the state; but if we acknowledge that his death was a loss to the state, and that those who accused him did so out of ignorance (for no one is willfully evil), then should he have respected the states decision as much as he did? Ought then a doctor, when told to leave by a patient delirious with fever, abandon him to succumb to illness simply to obey his wishes?

ελληνιkα εστιν εσθλος, αλλά χαλεπος kαι βατηύς εστιν.

Not a 'writer' per say, but...

>>6830142

NOTHING! I KNOW NOTHING!

>>6479216
NOTHING I KNOW NOTHING

>>6133225
NOTHING! I KNOW NOTHING!

Nothing, I know nothing!

I've seen a lot of ballyhoo bantered about about who might be the most attractive author, about pockfaced smokers and Danish hunchbacks, but what about the ugliest author? Who, would we say, is the ugliest? I vote this fucker.

I don't know