/lit/ - Literature

>>9505548
Name either 5 great self-taught philosophers or 5 great self-taught composers (assuming that that anon wanted to take an academic route in music too).

pro-tip: you can't, none of them were stupid enough to value a self-taugh path over an academic one (but you probably still don't get the reason behind such a choice: you're either not intelligent enough to understand it, or simply you have never experienced a academic context).

>>9505534
Define passionate. In most cases it's a waste of time. If you can read all day long philosophy for weeks, then you're good to go: this is what passionate means. If you just like philosophy and read it somewhat consistently, but not full-time, then don't even bother.

>>9501312

>he does not care about Shakespeare enough to read Hamlet (which will take you something like 4 hours, you fucking pleb)
>he does not read Shakespeare's plays for his own enjoyment
>he can't form his own opinion on a play that can be written in an afternoon

I'm sorry, you may be retarded. You certainly have no artistic inclination: drop film school and pick a mindless trade, it may suit you better, you uneducated swine.

>publishing house stop being selective, ending up publishing mostly trash
>the uneducated can't be sure anymore of the quality of what they are reading
>the educated population is too small to assist and promote all the valuable writers of our generation, means that they won't ever be able to interact with the general public
>it's a vicious cycle, meaning that the more time passes the less masterpieces are published, which will result in a further shrinking of the market for masterpieces, which will result in even less masterpieces published, and so on until now, where the name of contemporary masterpieces is almost a secret knowledge, owned only by the most well-read individuals in this society

>tfw this extends to every other artistic medium

Will art ever recover? Will humanity ever understand that linking the free market to art market will inevitably result in the death of art itself?

>>9447387
Sam Harris ''The Moral Landscape'' is a perfect introduction to ethics and morality and their related philosophical debates.
You should also try leading psychologist Jordan Peterson's ''Map of Meaning'', a neo-Jungian-Nietzscheian account of the contemporary human condition, and a deep and insightful analysis of the philosophies that arised from such a condition.

>>9443443
I see no problem with it.
Do you really care if there are now 8 more pronouns, while knowing that this change will progressively make the life of certain people tolerable, if not serene?
But who cares, I'm sure you're not talking about actual academics, instead you're probably just abstractly responding to dumb tumblrinas you've seen on 4chan.