/lit/ - Literature

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>>19972033
Never liked this quote. Im not some virulent anti Marx person, but to say you want to change the world is usually to the effect that you want to change it in a specific way, rather than just change in and for itself in whatever which way chaotically. And to determine a specific way, you kinda... you know... have to INTERPRETE the world into a comprehensible form, then change it in accordance to that INTERPRETATION.

The point is to change it? the point according to what? the point according to an interpretation? The quote just seems recursive. Amounting to "an interpretation that wants the world to change in a certain way should change the world" which seems supremely redundent.

>>19461331
Good thread.

>>19196001
>while only the top percentage of philosophers stuck to their ancestral faith until the end.
...You mean the neoplatonists who actively distanced themselves from polytheism and focused more on the One? As the idia of an infitely wise infinently powerful etc implies a singularity in being and all. Reading something like Plotinus, there really isnt that much from a basic perspective that seems congruinous with wider eariler paganism. Not Saying this development is christian or anything, the mondic traditions sprouted up in different places then took on some aspects of each other with contact.

Even Plato proper places the gods underneith a greater God, and doesnt really focus on them much for serious thought, mostly employing them aphoristically.

>>19196316
Wasnt the earlier roman pantheon also heavily state intertwined? Like Ceaser grabing the position of pontifex maximus and doing a whole bunch of shit to leverage that point. Though I do agree that it didnt seem to have as much exertable power with structured communities outside of rome for power projection.

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>>19178272
>He doesnt know about June 1992

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