/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.16558677]

What degree of autism is required to read these in their entirety?

[Anonymous No.16558690]

Superlative Autism, or the highest degree of Autism.

[Anonymous No.16558695]

water. ordinary water.

[Anonymous No.16558732]

>>16558677
The autism of someone with both a love of truest philosophy, art, and an extremely autistic obsession with the history of science, particularly zoology.
t. that guy.

[Anonymous No.16558741]

>>16558732
Is zoology such a large part of his corpus?

[Anonymous No.16558756]

>>16558741
Its the thing I imagine being least interesting to people without prior interest.

[Anonymous No.16558765]

I'm honestly only interested in Aristotle for literary and political philosophy, slightly interested in ethics

No time for this gay metaphysics shit you'll niggas be into

[Anonymous No.16558799]

>>16558677
33rd Degree Scottish Rite

[Anonymous No.16558819]

>>16558799

[Anonymous No.16558858]

>only 2 volumes
Meh, real autism is when you read all 50 volumes of Marx & Engels collected works.

[Anonymous No.16558872]

>>16558677
That’s something you study over a life time, not read cover to cover

[Anonymous No.16558922]

>>16558741

Yep, natural """science""" in general. Go here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corpus_Aristotelicum#Aristotle's_works_by_Bekker_numbers

This is the standard layout of Aristotle's work. The philosophically interesting stuff (logic, metaphysics, politics etc) is concentrated at the front and back of this arrangement. Notice the long autistic block of "physics" (natural science) in the middle, which does indeed included lots of stuff on animals. This is the bit which is skipped nowadays except as an autistic curiosity in the history of science.

[Anonymous No.16558936]

I've done it. There ain't nothing to it but to do it.

[Anonymous No.16558941]

>>16558858

I once sat down with a complete edition in a library for a little over an hour and paged through it. When I was done I still wasn't quite sure where Theories of Surplus Value begins and ends (somewhere around v's 28-31 or so). Interesting early stuff includes Marx's birth certificate and the doctoral dissertation. Much of the famous stuff is found in v6 (Manifesto, etc). I should have found where the mathematical stuff is, some of it's in the letters volumes I bet.

[Anonymous No.16559110]

>>16558741
Holy fuck more then you'd expect. I skipped all of his works on Biology holy shit. Realistically you only need to read Organon, Metaphysics, Nicomachaen Ethics, Politics, Rhetoric, Poetics, and On the Soul.

[Anonymous No.16559120]

>>16558858
This + the 45 volumes of Lenin's collected works.

[Anonymous No.16559148]

Why pathologize the pursuit of knowledge? You don't need 'autism' to read them just curiosity and a passion for science and philosophy, if those things are evidence of mental illness I'd hate to meet your 'healthy man.'

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>>16559120
Years ago there was anon who was borrowing those from his university library and read through them all. He said he regretted it.
No one need read Lenin imo. Certainly not all of it.

[Anonymous No.16559163]

>>16559120
>>16558858

seriously, how does anyone write this much? pic related is Balzacs complete works which is also massive. I also think about how prolific composers used to be. Complete works of Mozart is 180cds. Have artists today gotten lazy?

[Anonymous No.16559234]

>>16559163
Keep in mind that writing was important for communication with friends and colleagues. People like politicians also had to constantly write about various topics since they couldn't just upload it to twitter or give a speech on TV. If all of my shitposts were to be put in a book, I'd probably have multiple volumes. Now add in all the stuff you wrote for college. And even add in all the thoughts you've had about current events throughout the years. Then consider that this happens over the course of a good 40-50 years. You'd have a lot of volumes. It becomes more of a game of how much of your writings were saved than who much you actually wrote.

Although there are plenty of giga-autists who wrote dozens of books.

[Anonymous No.16559247]

>>16559163

My own shitposting would fill at least onw moderately sized volume, I'm sure. They didn't have internet and collections like these typically encompass the life's work of an author, or: decades of sustained effort.

[Anonymous No.16559354]

>>16559234
Democritus I believe has over 60 titles attributed to him on all possible subjects and 0 survived

[Anonymous No.16560564]

>>16558936
This guy gets it.

[Anonymous No.16560752]

>>16558858
>compares based aristotle to cringe commies

[Anonymous No.16560767]

>>16559110
Muh Physics

[Anonymous No.16560792]

>>16558677
real autism is reading his entire corpus in greek

[Anonymous No.16560808]

>>16558677
When did autism become a byword for hard working and intelligent? Is that how far we've fallen?

[Anonymous No.16560816]

>>16560808
>t. pseud

[Anonymous No.16560833]

>>16560808
Aristotle isn't like Plato. Most of those books are outtdated science stuff.

[Anonymous No.16560981]

>>16560808
Autism itself isn't a real mental illness. In the past autism was actually a good thing and likely increased a male's chance at sexual success, which is contrasted to today's autist who is an incel virgin. Many historical figures, if they had lived today, would probably be diagnosed as having some form of autism.

[Anonymous No.16560985]

>>16560981
retard

[Anonymous No.16561017]

>>16558858
>>16559120
>>16559163
Out of my way, noobs

[Anonymous No.16561028]

>>16561017
>>16558858
>>16559120
>>16559163
>haha many words XD
Take your pseuds elsewhere

[Anonymous No.16561039]

>>16560981
Based spergs. How do sex having normies cope?

[Anonymous No.16561467]

>>16561017
>writing THIS much about some middle eastern fairytale
Do Germans really?