/lit/ - Literature

wtf is the deal with Plato's number? He explains the five forms of government and all of a sudden launches into this explanation of cyclical history and this cryptic esoteric mathematical riddle that apparently hasn't been solved yet. Was Plato an Egyptian alien?

Tell her that the Church built a large part of its scholarship on Plato's and Aristotle's teachings. Aristotle was basically an unofficial saint. In Dante's Inferno, the Greek philosophers and poets are chilling out in Limbo. Then you should show her the School of Athens (pic related) which happens to occupy the Papal Palace.

Look at all of you dumbasses doing liberal arts degrees. It is only through hard work, struggle, adversity and discipline that you can truly gain an appreciation for the enjoyable in life. Be responsible for once instead of just throwing away your life for shits and giggles. I see so many of you crying about work yet still calling stem a meme. The greatest philosophers and thinkers to ever walk the earth were also scientists: Aristotle, Plato, Descartes, Marx, Kant, etc.

>tfw changed my major from STEM to philosophy
Books for this feel?

Is philosophy nonfiction?

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>I don't have to wrestle with any of this shit because it's irrational nonsense, let me read about traditional dead white guys.
Yeah, fuck those dead white guys who form the foundation of Western civilization's greatness! Sure, they might've blown the rest of the world out of the water in terms of intellectual sophistication, breadth and depth of thought, but it's all "traditional nonsense" amirite?