/lit/ - Literature

>All Things Are Possible (Shestov)
>William Blake
>Philosophy
>NA
>Gemini/INFP because both are of equal value
>23

Can one make it as a writer in the 21st century? Communicating philosophical ideas and expanding on psychological frameworks as you channel those ideas through fictional stories.
Writing is my passion.

Why is he so divisive? People seem to either think he's a unique literary genius or think he's forgettable boring shit.

Hume and Kant miss the point. Obviously we cannot know reality fully as it truly is. I can't believe it took so much effort and time to say that. But it is obvious that we can participate in a limited amount of truth. We can affect reality via cause and effect. It is absurd to posit that cause and effect, or the PSR, or the intelligibility of the universe (all the same thing) are merely figments of our imagination.

How is that obvious? Well, easy. I bang your sister and she gets pregnant and creates a new life. A new experiencer. So you can say whatever you want about spacetime being just a headset, or the laws of physics being only our mental description, but the bottom fact is that we can do things to affect reality in a predictable way. Therefore reality is at least partially intelligible to us. Skepticism and anti-realism is for pseuds, midwits, and fools.

Do "things" exist outside of human mind? Is reality sans-mind one giant featureless blob of quantum fluctuation? It seems so. But then how do we account for "things" that intuitively seem to exist for themselves, such as plants and animals? Or even atoms and molecules? Are atoms, molecules, electrons, etc just creations of the human mind?

Or is there a true reality with these "things" in concept, and we are able to discover them through our (limited) perceptions?

All philosophy is the struggle of the human mind to fully understand something that it cannot fully understand, by nature.

All science is the struggle of the human mind to fully describe something that it cannot fully describe, by nature.

I think that any effort that is not rooted in God is doomed because you run up against the hard limits of the human mind. And if there is no God, then there is nothing to figure out anyways.

>>22504916
Fake Kant readers real quiet

Any books that can help reverse the process of becoming jaded and cynical?

>>21211880
Fiction readers were BTFO by Plato in the Republic

/lit/ in a nutshell

"Technological tools are neutral". Is there a more retarded claim?

>>14230969
this

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>>14097026
>Open any turd that says C.G. Jung on it and see for yourself.

Do you ever get the feeling that if you read a certain book much earlier in your life, your future might have turned out completely different?

Is /lit/ consisted mainly of charlatans who don't actually read?

Can we have a butterfly edit of this?

I graduated going on a year and a half ago; I did work related to my degree for about a year but now I hate the field and have bummed around the last couple months, ostensibly preparing graduate school applications but mostly reading and writing and stagnating. I had intended to get a master's or PhD but now realize that was stupid, especially in my field. If I can muster the energy I intend to apply to some law schools, although even if I do, and get acceptances, I might wait another year to build a stronger application. Considering some sort of medication. Currently, Robert Burton is my closest friend.

Take heart, though, anon: if you're also only a recent graduate, you have plenty of time. To my understanding, it only starts to be too late once you hit thirty. You have a perfectly good degree, suited for work in a respectable, lucrative field: keep applying.