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Now I realize that literature isn't supposed to be something to discover or accumulate knowledge. One isn't supposed to get into literature so that he can learn things (except for language). Literature is supposed to be like a pure art, nothing more nothing less, simply an aesthetic and artistic production and nothing more or less than that. If you're reading fiction books with gathering knoweledge in mind, you're setting off on the wrong foot. Literature is an art like any other just like painting and sculpture and should be treated as such, albeit it is a little more informative but that's beside the point entirely.

>> No.13594896

>>13594874
What's the point of accumulating knowledge by reading philosophy books if you're a cumbrain at the end of the day?

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>>13594874
but you anons might even say
>but we learn about history and this or that from fiction too!
but that's beside the point. Just in the same way that art historians can discover and make us learn about facts and historical facts, how people lived and the thoughts of the Era from art of the past, so we can with literature, but that's not the point of any of these arts, which is simply aesthetic appreciation. Not saying that any literature which doesn't have this particular thing in mind shouldn't be read, but that it's a huge mistake to begin reading fiction thinking it useful to gather knowledge. That's the job of philosophy and the sciences, while fiction is supposed to be aesthetic appreciation. To equate reading fiction with the accumulation of knowledge would be a big mistake. Literature is first and foremost an art and then whatever else.

>> No.13594916

I see Literature as creating an atmosphere to my life. The world feels different with each book I read.

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>>13594896
>What's the point of accumulating knowledge by reading philosophy books if you're a cumbrain at the end of the day?
To stop being a cumbrain. It might give you some advice on how to stop and get your life together. Look, I'm not shitting on fiction, I'm just saying that it has a purpose much different from philosophy. It's an art, nothing less, nothing more. It might even exalt some people's lives, but it's only as useful as one can appreciate it, and that's fine. We don't need to make this a debate about philosophy x fiction, just to state this fact : that the point of literature is not to grow wiser but to aesthetic appreciation, and you'd be mistaken if you were looking for anything else. I'm not saying fiction is useless, there are some great things worth reading but that will always depend on the artistic sensibility of the person in question, while philosophy is something more general.