/lit/ - Literature

>>20539700
Dumb post. You're too caught up in the labels and not the underlying essences that may (or may not!) constitute the human condition.

are there any books that explore dialectical monism, neutral monism, etc., especially those that engage with Western philosophy?

>>20445482
>what always irked me was that nonsense that the "Trinity" was the solution to the "many and the one,
What was his argument? I'm curious.

>>20353210
>>20353284
>>20353328
Thank you for the drawn-out effort post. You've made my day.

I would argue that none of these divisions are *truly* distinct in a harmonized soul. What is logismos but the means by which thumos and epithymia harmonize and reach their most perfect, eternal state? What is the most perfect form of power but one that is able to last forever (and is not an exercise of brutish tyranny)? This dovetails well with Socrates's argument about why knowledge is equivalent to virtue, at least when it is perfect. There is no value in choosing anything lesser when you truly understand what virtue entails.
>(What'd be a bigger question then is what to do about the Symposium's account of the soul as being driven by Eros; in the Republic, Eros is shriveled into Epithumia as the mere urge to fuck, but there's no room for any account of philosophical Eros. Are Thumos and Eros the two basic parts of soul? Is Eros actually a part of Thumos? I dunno, shit's hard.)
This is a great question. Personally, I think that thumos and eros evolves into "irascibility" and "concupiscence" of the Thomists.