/lit/ - Literature

>>18319762
>mirrors?
>brain transcends biology?
The soul isn't just a collection of neural states or something.
It's the apriori intellective capacity which is therefore prior to and necessary for sense experience, memory etc.,
The energy of mind is the essence of life, and since it is not reducible to a material organ such energy is perpetual.
> The mind knows itself with certainty, which is discursively contradictory to deny
>A thing is known only when its essence/intelligible whatness is known - that which makes it what it is and not something else.
>So the mind knows its own essence with certainty.
>But the mind is not certain that it is the brain, or atoms, or an arrangement of flesh, or anything else that is material.
>So it is not part of the essence of the mind to be the brain, or atoms, or an arrangement of flesh, or anything else that is material.
And more importantly following on;
>The mind knows itself directly, without the mediation of a mental image or any other representation.
>But the mind knows material things only via the mediation of a mental image or some other representation.
>So, the mind is not a material thing.

It, the activity of mind - the psyche/soul; a priori intellection, is thus perpetual and immaterial. It is immortal.
Plato was right: you have an immortal soul, now you just need to learn math.

>Homo unius libri. The phrase was in origin a dismissal of eclecticism, i.e. the "fear" is of the formidable intellectual opponent who has dedicated himself to and become a master in a single chosen discipline.
>Saint Thomas Aquinas is reputed to have employed the phrase "hominem unius libri timeo" (meaning "I fear the man of a single book"
I feel like I waste my time with so many books to retain so little. My time should be better employed in studying one single book.

>Tfw no /theophil/ - Philosophy/Theology board yet

What the fuck is gookmoot doing

>>16431845
basato, pilled etc.,

>>12248933
chaste and breadpilled

>>11335241
Based parents. Letting her read about science without a basic understanding of philosophy would probably turn her into a fedora tipper, which is undesirable since fedora tippers are the source of all degeneracy in the world today. So I urge you to let her start with the Greeks and familiarize her with their philosophy, beginning with the Pre-Socratics philosophers to Plato and then Aristotle. After she is comfortable with Greek philosophers, she can now move on to St. Thomas Aquinas and St. Augustine so that she can fully understand and argue for the necessity of the existence of God, the immortality of the soul, and other Christian doctrines that she has learned from the Bible and her parents. If you do this correctly, she will be able to see how a purely materialistic point of view that fedora tippers usually lean towards to is incoherent, deeply flawed, and incompatible with science. You can now safely let her read about the history and philosophy of science and mathematics and modern scientific literature without having to fear the influences of fedora tippers on her.

/lit/, can you name me any novels with "good" main characters?

And I'm not talking about shitty fantasy protagonists that are just born wanting to do good for no reason, or the "ordinary man" of most modern lit that just tries to find his way in a crazy, crazy world that just doesn't make sense and terrifies him.

But rather, someone that's highly philosophical as well as emphatic, who isn't just trying to do the good thing, but to realize what good truly is -- without ever falling so low as to give up his mental aptitudes and embrace relativity and chaos.

Basically a paladin, but without the doctrine and absolutes.

And please, no biographies/autobiographies from saints and philosophers and the like. Picture is unrelated.

>>7335697
>Quoting the Old Testament
>Watching television
Son, I think it's time to stop posting.

I'm making good progress through Wheelock. Once I'm done and I've worked my way through simple texts like Caesar, how long will it take before I'm proficient enough to read through Augustine and Aquinas (my main reasons for studying the language) with only reasonable reference to a dictionary? Is medieval Latin harder than ancient Latin, contrary to what I've been told, and is there any textbook which will familiarise me with it from basic classical Latin? Also, is there any source for physical copies of early modern texts in their original Latin comprable to Loeb's - I'm especially interested in reading Grotius one day.

Many thanks.

>>6366872
>>6366791

>tfw my life and belief system doesn't revolve around economics
>tfw Christianity is central doctrine
>tfw free from this fucking thread

Lots of great stuff to read out there. I worked as an English-speaking librarian for a Faculty of Theology at German university while working on my PhD. Reading the New Testament in and of itself is very helpful to understanding the backgrounds of modern Christianity, but I would also recommending picking up something that will help you identify the intended audience and purposes of whichever book you are reading. 66 books in the Bible, 44 different personalities coming out. You can pick up "An Introduction to the New Testament" by Carson, Moo, and Morris for under $8. Love or hate them or their perspectives, they explain all of the different views and let you make your choice. Highly recommended. Old Testament is a thousand times more complex; not really my forte.

Augustine's Confessions are excellent, as is The Confession of St. Patrick
>http://www.ccel.org/ccel/patrick/confession.html

Patron Saint of Ireland; you can never go wrong with knowing a bit about his story by reading his autobiography. Good reading if you like to know a little bit of the stories behind figures that have come down through history to us.

I understand that Christianity has its great theologians, mystics, apologists, etc., but are there any such writers for other religions, specifically Islam or Judaism, of the same caliber? Are there any other Aquinases, Augustines, or Theresas that history has overlooked. Not trying to be all multikulti, just genuinely curious.

Tell me about Saint Augustine, /lit/. I've seen him mentioned as an influence a bunch of times by now, from the likes of Luther and Calvin, to Arendt and Wittgenstein.

What makes him so influential?