/lit/ - Literature

>>4097375

but y do u think that?

There's only one reason anyone does anything

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"Get it right, get it right get it tight."

-Aristophenes

I fail to see how modern philosophy has refuted ancient philosophy. It seems the basic nature of the world is obvious and easily proven.

The unshakeable basic principles of knowledge are the laws of logic (A=A, etc). Information is gained by the senses (Nihil in intellectu quod prius non fuerit in sensu), and knowledge is gained by studying this information and making deductions from it. If the senses are doubted at any moment, or one questions induction's abilities, refer back to the first principles of logic, and work your way back up to check for sense-validity and induction-validity.

In addition, it may easily be proven that a man is a certain type of thing, and that certain things are good for him and certain things are bad. Continuing, we call things good based on how well they fulfill their function (a good shovel digs, a good scientist is good at science). So by determining the "function" of a man we can determine what makes a "good" man, and what qualities a "good" man has. These qualities being called virtues.

Now of course one could argue these points, nor argue their specifics and implications, but I fail to see how Niezche, Hegel, (or whoever), refuted these concepts.

As far as I'm concerned the western project is a success. A monotheistic, rationalist, empirical, moral philosophy designed to encompass all reality in an orderly self-consistent system. A true metanarrative.

Afternoon, /lit/. You guys have helped me come into literature, beginning with my preferred genre, philosophy. I've begun with Greek, obviously, and thank you guys for the guidance, for I am enjoying myself greatly.

Now I come to you with a different kind of request. I'm now in uni, and the girl I had absolutely devoted my soul to for the past several years has left me, seemingly in the dirt. I found that she's had a secret romance forming all of this time, due to my high stress levels lately from work and school the past year or two (coming from high school to the real world is a difficult thing, you know). I feel so broken, so compelled to be angry and move on, but I just can't help but miss the woman I am still so deeply in love with, /lit/. She was my world, I followed her every word (a wonderful psychologist and counselor, she is), and I loved her with everything I had, but these past few months just weren't good enough for her.

/lit/, I come to you not to seek reassurance, but to find some solace in my literature. I desperately want to continue my dig into philosophy, and much much further, but every time I try to open a book, all I can think about is this woman. All of my inspiration came from her, my longing to learn and better myself as an intellectual as well as a person, and now I feel so empty. How can I use this literature, particularly Plato considering that is currently what I am trying to read, to inspire myself? It does not feel dry when I read it, but I only feel melancholy. What can I do, /lit/?

What is /lit/'s preferred era and/or area of Philosophy? Ancient Greek? 5th-16th Century? Modern? Logic, ethics, etc..?

Let's get wise, c/lit/s.

Memory seems to fail me once again. I can not recall which one of the Ancient Greek wise men has been credited for the following aphorism -
"Death is just another night."

It probably was Aristotle.
Also I do not quite recall if it was the exact translation.

>>1642284
I think that's supposed to be Plato. I know its from Raphael's "School of Athens" fresco(?) in the Vatican.

Visual arts fag here.

This image preety much sums up this entire discussion.

>>1109590

If the finger up and the flat hand are meant to be a refernce to this painting, than the man pointing to the heavens is Plato, and the man with the flat hand is Aristotle.

Hey Faggots,

My name is Aristotle, and I hate every single one of you. All of you are fat, retarded, non-aristocrats who spend every second of your day reading nonsensical postmodern bullshit. You are everything irrational in the world. Honestly, have any of you ever read real philosophy? I mean, I guess it's fun trying to disprove the concepts of value and morality because of your own insecurities, but you all take to a whole new level. This is even worse than jerking off to Michel Foucault’s Discipline and Punish.

Don't be a stranger. Just hit me with your best shot. I'm pretty much perfect. I was the head lecturer at the Academy, and tutor to Alexander the Great. What rational activities of the soul do you partake in, other than "jack off to Jean Paul Sarte"? I also got straight A’s from Plato, and have a banging series of treatises (I just interpreted the whole of reality using only the concepts of matter and form; Shit was SO cash). You are all existentially despairing faggots who should just kill yourselves. Thanks for listening.

Pic Related: It's me and my teacher

>>426328

Make Aristotle bounce the ball as well!