/lit/ - Literature

>>2241261
>The goal of a novel is to entertain and express a message. So, it DOES devalue it if you cant understand it.
>express a message
Even my high-school english department thought that was a misapprehension. What 'message' can a novel express, pray tell? What do you even mean by 'message'? This sort of thinking displays a deep misunderstanding of what text can provide its audience.

>>2074487
A cowardly unsubstantiated laughingwhores.jpg but one I'm happy to give a quick rebuttal to.

My reason for preferring Aristotle to Moore is that 90% of his thought doesn't rest on the fact that the knottier issues within epistemology and ethics can be transcended through belief. This is where a pragmatic attitude and a prudence with mysticism is useful; I mean why didn't Moore become some sort of Calvinist preacher if he was prepared to make those sorts of concessions to belief.

Aristotle on the other hand provides a bit more etiology than 'hurr durr these are my hands and they are real.' I think likewise, the point of several continentals that metaphysics of inaccesibility (a term I use for idealism, but Heideggerian ontology also among other things) create a false distance between perception's horizon and reality.

>>2063753
No that was us. I remember the day.

AND IT'S A REAL MEME NOW
IT HAS A MEMEGENERATOR PICTURE AN ERRYTHING