/lit/ - Literature

>>14821086
Yeah you could do that, or you could read primary sources. But those are going to be disqualified somehow, I'm sure.
I know I for one enjoy getting my knowledge of Plato strictly from tertiary sources written by butch lesbian Angloid materialists in the 20th and 21st century who hate Plato and obviously can't allow the idea that his metaphysics might have any legitimacy at all from the start since it would cancel their worldview so they reduce it like a quaint little "just-so" narrative that flatters their own intellectual impotence.
"Academic texts"; what would we do without them?, other than, you know, read the fucking primary sources for ourselves.

>My year of studying religious studies at degree level.
A whole year! And "at degree level", meaning... not actually at a university or anything, but just on your own browsing wiki articles and reading "Short Intrductions to X"?