/lit/ - Literature

No?

mbti fags need to stop reading their nu-astrology horoscopes and start reading the safety label on their favourite flavour of glue.

This thread is embarassing
Cum does not bring you to enlightenment you massive fucking faggots

>>11334501
>>11334505
>mbti

>Hi! i wan't to read Political Philosophy
>eww, but not The Republic
>Do i have to read Philosophy of Right, the book which introduces the most important teleology of modern politics?
>Even though the only book of his i've read is Leviathan, Hobbes is totes my Husbando haha
>give me conservative political philosopher
>i'm a PoliSci mutt

This is a pseudtube free board.
Read a book instead.

>>10907207
This, desu. Kierkegaard was nothing short of a prophet.

>>10904904
>Plato hasn't influenced anyone
what shit list regardless

>>10699821
>Mill, Locke, Cicero, Montesquieu, Tocqueville, Rousseau
>Right wing
what did he mean by this?

>>10670295
you don't deserve an argument

>people itt attributing morality to foreign policy

>>10652426
>Thus Spake Zarathustra IMO is a complete failure (it's quite a failure stylistically... [...])
>t. reads translations
>t. probably read the Common translation as well

>2 people voted Mills over Hobbes

>>10287200
>Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
>What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?
>All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
>The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.
>Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us.
>There is no remembrance of things past; neither shall there be any remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after.
baka desu senpai

>>10075176
wat

>>10046971
>>10047009
If one were to claim that writing is as much a craft as painting is, how would you react?

At the very least, a person must be aware of the fundamentals of writing and storytelling, and I think that's what these classes are for. I don't believe that they're pretending to be a "Hemingway in 60 days" sort of deal. I think it's being marketed to people who have no experience whatsoever in formal writing.

The online classes are nearly useless, sure, but the same organization also offers in-person classes in NYC, which are a thousand times better because of workshops that involve other attendees.

I'm only defending these guys because I bought their portable guide to the MFA, and it's actually pretty good.