[ 3 / biz / cgl / ck / diy / fa / ic / jp / lit / sci / vr / vt ] [ index / top / reports ] [ become a patron ] [ status ]
2023-11: Warosu is now out of extended maintenance.

/lit/ - Literature

View post   
File: 94 KB, 539x716, 21367B99-1F06-4FF0-803B-09553E9411AC.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
11707642 No.11707642 [Reply] [Original]

Books to concile my well behaved and beautifully spooked ass with my analytic moral relativism?

I see beauty in some forms of action, especially in literary form. But said beauty doesn’t work as a ground for morals, because I feel as if I inherited it. While every step to the ‘truth’ leads me to relativism. So I’m standing in two total opposites: people are right to be above preconceived morals, but I myself wouldn’t act above them.

I know Dostoyevsky is going to come up. I’ve read many of his books already. It’s not what I’m looking for but certainly he understands the problem. I’m not looking for the absolute or god. I’m trying to concile the sensitivity of feeling such profound beauty when reading Tolstoy, with the feeling that I have no ground for action.

As I write this I realize that the problem isn’t strictly moral. Basically I’ve been looking for a ground but I can’t seem to reach it.

Pic semi related.

>> No.11707678

>>11707642
That movie is such a pile of shit

Kid should've just taken some antidepressants

>> No.11707687

>>11707678
why?
>inb4 edgy

>> No.11707765

>>11707642
IF you don't believe in an objective morality then all philosophical conversation about morality becomes pointless, or a sophist's power game.