/lit/ - Literature

>>12999568

>Writing some faggy books doesn't mean you aren't a nihilist

>Faggy Books=Nihlism=???=Profit

This dude right here

So what do you all need answered with the help of /lit/?

Questions That Don't Deserve Their Own Threads.

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Write what is on your mind.

Write what is on your mind.

Write what is on your mind.

>when Aristotle BTFOs your whole life's work

>believed some humans were born superior to others and was okay with eugenics
>believed some works of art were too degenerate and should be banned
>young warriors should live in a communistic clan apart from the rest of society
>believed men should be ruled by a superior philosopher king (Fuhrer)

Was Plato, dare I say it, a proto-Nazi?

The way 4chan treats normies is a demonstration of Plato's Allegory of the Cave.

Is it really common for people to misinterpret Plato? I was talking to a friend attending a liberal arts college and he says everyone dislikes Plato there because "the philosopher king isn't practical" but thats the entire point of the philosopher king; Plato knew it wasnt possible. These are the sort of people who read something and complain when all the answers arn't made as obvious as possible.
In fact most of the people I've met that disagree with Plato don't cite anything from the Republic and offer no counter argument besides something along the lines of "there is no truth" and leave it at that. Theres so much that Plato says and I think that if these people truly understood it they would have a hard time disagreeing.

Also this: https://medium.com/@kmikeym/is-this-a-sandwich-50b1317eb3f5#.sqe422lp4

I'm barely even on my first read through of Plato and I see the clusterfuck of misinterpretation here,
". The socratic method is deceptively simple: it’s a dialectical method entailing the relentless questioning of your interlocutor in order to critically interrogate a point they’re making, usually with the goal of proving that there is no such thing as objective truth or whatever."
Like what how can you possibly read Plato and gather that conclusion?

How important is it to be familiar with Greek tragedy before reading this guy?

haha dude come live in my communist dictatorship bro it's gonna be so radical lmao

check out this cave i made up

What is the better response to injustice, the one outlined in Plato's Crito (never return injustice with injustice) or in the Defense of Socrates (retaliation with injustice is sometimes justifiable)?

Why should one study philosophy? What are its benefits?
What is the point of studying philosophy in the modern era?

>>6002076
>Platonism
>wrong

>>5995597
>on lit
>questioning the glory of the Greeks

You make me sick.

Anyone who reads Sade is a filthy degenerate.

What is the most essential beginner political reading?