/lit/ - Literature

>>7373531
As a well read person, shouldn't you be able to win all arguments with your pleb parents?

>>7233350
All ethics boil down to muh feels and/or arbitrary premises.

>>7066395
just never do that.

>>7066852
top tier sophism. no matter how intelligent a person is, deny him his axioms and he's powerless.

>>7063949
Literally every possible behaviour can be both philosophically justified and condemned depending from which arbitrary axioms you start.

Take the golden pill, m8. Start with the sophists.

>>6904603
Pic very much related. All you need to know is rhetoric. If you excel at that you're untouchable in conversation no matter how little you know about anything.

>>6613414
Pic related.

>>6563387
>not being interesting by being interested in others in an interesting way
>not asking interesting questions and giving interesting suggestions
>not talking about interesting subjects that are neither yourself nor the other person
>not espousing interesting theories about how being uninteresting is interesting

>>6501524
Rhetoric rules all, my friend.

>>6435183
It is pretty much sophistry. But that goes for pretty much anything.

I remember a similar disappointment, but in retrospect I'm kind of disappointed in myself for ever thinking it would something other than that. I don't blame people for their word game hustle.

When you think about it, there's really no reason to believe something like literary analysis to be anything more than arbitrary opinion dressed up fancily. The same goes for philosophy.

>>6393767
That's because hicks suck at rhetoric.