/lit/ - Literature

Covers such as this. I dislike most cover art, so I like the option they're least likely to fuck up.

Especially with great books this can be awful, because you just might find that one work that touches you the most of all, that offers the most insight, that almost becomes your personal bible. Then to have a trashy, flashy cover that makes your eyes hurt can ruin the experience in long time use. I want either the solemnity of a leatherbound King James bible or merely an e-book.

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Same goes for Jesus. We can either judge Diogenes by the, perhaps false, information we do have about him, or dismiss the discussion on him altogether because we aren't certain of it being historically correct. I'd find the latter more productive.

Especially seeing that those anecdotes, being true or not, do present to us a style of living, a personality and opinions. Also, there is more information than one would think on Diogenes and his Cynic friends and followers.There are quite a few insightful works written about them.

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>You have a very silly few of past civilizations. Romanticized to the core.
I don't. I'm just saying it was easier to just drop by if someone lived along the same main or only street then when you are befriended to people on the other side of a modern metropolis.

>Oh, so being an asshole is part of the philosophy. Maybe that's why I find them insufferable.
It often is, if you see people confronting others with their bullshit as being an asshole. Crates was a nice dude though, even though he too held a high moral standard. He just presented it more nicely.

>You're either lying, or getting help from daddy.
Cheap Korean smart phone with data plan: Phone for free, data plan 15 euros a month. I work minimum wage, so that's about two to three hours. Technology is for plebs too nowadays.

>In the same way that a homeless person is 'fitting in' to society because they haven't been murdered yet. Are you seriously trying to paint Diogenes as a practical conformist?
In a sense, yes. He fell on hard times because he lost his money, father, was banished from Sinope and lost his slave. He arranged for someone to get him a little house/hut in Athens, but it didn't work out. So he moved into the tub and decided to stay there. He was destitute and adopted to his situation. So he learned the benefits of it and realised he didn't need plenty of shit people think they need and shared that with his fellow men. Both by teaching directly, little plays of "action philosophy" or perhaps performance art, writing books and gathering dedicated students around him.

The last non-fiction I really teared through with great enthusiasm was the one in the related picture. I love me some Diogenes and his bro's and this was the first book I came across that actually treated this subject in debt.

I like things like this. Pleasantly simple.