/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.20572608]

BAP read a powerful passage out of Plato's Gorgias, quoting Callicles. BAP called him the Hitlor of the ancients. He said that the ancients treated him the same way we treat Hitler today.

Strikingly, if you wouldn't have told me he was reading from Plato, I would have assumed it was a passage straight from Nietzsche. When people say that all of philosophy is nothing but a footnote to Plato, this seems evidently correct. All ideas have already been discussed and exhausted.

The passage is so accurate of everything we know about the human condition today, I cannot believe that it was written down 2500 years ago. Some truths truly are eternal. Liberalism is a sick and twisted aberration in human development, it needs to be removed like a cancer. We have always had the formula for greatness, it has only been hidden from us.

[Anonymous No.20572646]

Plato was topped by Aristotle. You sound like an eternal bitch

[Anonymous No.20572653]

>>20572646
>Plato was topped by Aristotle.

[Anonymous No.20572671]

There's a fucking timeline somewhere where you can discuss philosophy on /lit/ without referring to contemporary social media /pol/brains and I swear by God if I have to strangle the Demiurge himself for him to actualize it it will be done.

[Anonymous No.20572677]

Plato was inside his own cave bros

[Anonymous No.20572685]

>>20572671
I agree. /pol/tards can't understand that if university Professors and smart people with degrees don't espouse it then it's not a correct philosophy.
Where can I discuss everything that Academics say except in my own words besides imageboards?

[Anonymous No.20572702]

>>20572685
> MUH APOLOGY OF CONTRARIANISM
Fuck off.

[Anonymous No.20572723]

>>20572702
What? That's not what I'm saying. I'm saying that any philosophy that is outside of the accepted academic circles is obviously false and we need proper speech regulation to prevent the retarded /pol/brains from shitting up OUR board with their de facto false "ideologies."

[Anonymous No.20572729]

>>20572723
>I'm saying that any philosophy that is outside of the accepted academic circles is obviously false
shut your mouth you stupid fucking shill

[Anonymous No.20572910]

>>20572729
Shut up incel. We refuted your ignorant little authors 600 years ago.

[Anonymous No.20572966]

>>20572646
>NOOOOO THE JEW BOOK MUST BE REAL
>YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND I HAVE FOND RECOLLECTIONS FROM GOING TO CHURCH AS A CHILD AMERIMUTT I NEED THE JEW BOOK TO BE REAL

[Anonymous No.20572987]

>>20572608
Why would you make this thread without even linking to the passage in question?

[Anonymous No.20573028]

I randomly listened to some of Gorgias the other day while going to sleep and started laughing out loud at the bit where Socrates brought up the metaphor of medicine vs. pastry making.

Imagine a pastry maker and a doctor are competing to win the trust of a bunch of children, or adult simpletons with the minds of children. The pastry maker will make delicious beautiful confections and will absolutely dominate the doctor, who will try to convince people to eat foul-tasting medicines to cure their ills. The doctor will end up starving to death and the pastry-maker will win completely, even though the pastry-maker's creations are absolutely worthless for everyone's health.

[Anonymous No.20573181]

>he fell for idealism during capitalism's death throes
c'mon incels lets stop looking inward and create some materialist harems

[Anonymous No.20573185]

>>20572685
Not the own you think it is bud, because your ecelebs are just your version of the academics.
I think Jesus once said something about this.

[Anonymous No.20573192]

>>20573185
Ecelebs have more value than academics, which is not meant as praise of ecelebs

[Anonymous No.20573196]

>>20572653
You’ve never read Aristotle flailing twitteroid, go back and never return

[Anonymous No.20573197]

>>20573192
You're so enlightened and transgressive dude. You're so enlightened that you need an eceleb to think for you.

[Anonymous No.20573200]

>>20572608
>BAP called him the Hitlor of the ancients.

[Anonymous No.20573201]

>>20573197
>transgressive
Hitler cunny sneed

[Anonymous No.20573208]

>>20572608
>He said that the ancients treated him the same way we treat Hitler today.

What ancients? The ones that came after or his contemporaries? Seemed like Socrates & friends had no problem hanging out with him.

[Anonymous No.20573288]

>>20572646
You know it's funny you faggots finally made me look it up and Greeks didn't even have anal or oral gay sex.

[Anonymous No.20573325]

>>20573185
Only one of us wants a safespace because his babby's first philosophy can't hold up to anon's post.

[Anonymous No.20573932]

>>20572608
Hitler was all about his racial cause while Callicles wanted NO causes at all. He thought all politics in general held no meaning at all and it was just used to dominate others. He would not have supported Nazism or any ideology which was not centered around him personally benefiting solely.

[Anonymous No.20574439]

So BAP's a retard.
You're just figuring this out?

[Anonymous No.20574800]

what the fuck was the passage