/lit/ - Literature

>>5322017
It's a very challenging dialogue. Definitely easy to get rekt by.

>>5322072
I want to know why people continue posting stupid bullshit like this on /lit/.

>>5205381
OP, I appreciate the milieu you've created with this thread, but when it comes to literature, classics and philosophy are for the titans.

>doorstopper novels and hundred canto doggerel

Also, I get the feeling that you might be trying to justify a short attention span.

>>5174343
>Do I look like your personal google? Is it my job to give you the education you missed in 4th grade?

Ugh, do people still say this shit?

>To answer your stupid question, even the Gilgamesh epic contains dialogues.

Confirmed for knowing nothing about literature. Note that "dialogue narrative structure" is different from "a text containing dialogue"...

>Now it is more than obvious that you didn't even read anything written by Plato.

That's another facile defense. Stop that. Do you have any idea how much time Plato spends arguing like this:

"So, is it that x is y, or is it that x is not y, or is it sometimes that x is y, and sometimes that x is not y?"

>"Virtue" is a spook. It's a nonsensical buzzword for "traits I like for emotional reasons". Subjective and arbitrary hogwash without objective basis.

I honestly have no idea why you insist on slamming human thought into such narrow categories.

>I'm calling out Plato for mistaking his opinions and beliefs for facts.

And you're not doing a very good job of it, seeing as you haven't even mentioned a single one of his beliefs. You've just staged an attack on a bullshit boogeyman vision of Plato in which he is some hippy smoking hookah at the quad.

If you want to actually discuss Plato, I'll leave it to you to pick one of his particular beliefs, or maybe one of his universal themes.

>I'm not a man

I don't think that anybody could give less of a shit about who you are personally.

>>5166213
Yes, there is such a thing as morality.

You are just formulating the question like a total noob.

It's one thing to inquire into the nature of morality, e.g., "do moral claims instantiate some natural property?" or " are moral sentiments founded upon grounds beyond human emotion?" or even "moral systems are constructed by humans to fulfill what end?"

It's another thing to say "LOL NO SUCH THING AS MORALITY." Of course there is such a thing as morality, that's why we have a word for it. The inquiry concerns the nature of this thing called "morality".

The more you know.