/lit/ - Literature

>>11806309
Maybe. But on the whole, existence of evil certainly weighs down the total amount of virtue in the world.

>>11731270
I read "Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals" for a class and understood it. I started Hegel's Phenomenology but ended up realizing I needed more understanding of the Western tradition.

>>11722805
I've studied medieval philosophy. I'm familiar with Augustine, Aquinas, Duns Scotus, and the likes. I do think there was a first cause to the universe, however, there's a long way between that and believing the first cause has any relevance today.

The primary critique about medieval philosophy is in one of their own slogans: "faith seeking understanding". I, and the whole cast of moderns, think that if this saying is to work at all it should be inverted: "understanding seeking faith". This, as I have experienced, simply doesn't work, and hence I end up reading Dostoevsky and relating to the underground man.

Regardless, I sense something in me that wants faith, that knows I need it. But this sensation is too weak right now. There is too much weight behind my current disposition.