/lit/ - Literature

Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Hume, Kant, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, and then anyone you want

Personally I had a really hard time with it, and I'm usually ok with "difficult" books

>>5299929
shut up

You only know about this quote because of this video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuQHSKLXu2c

Shallow, irritating, and gay.

Also not very good technically.

Honest opinion

You wouldn't have guessed it from living here

>reading books with female characters

That'll learn 'em to be shit at maths!

>>5280261
Because he can't anything. He's not even a "he". Nothing can be said about him at all, strictly speaking.

>>5280221
He doesn't "know" either. Knowledge cannot be spoken of within a context where doubt cannot exist

>>5280194

God can't have "beliefs", that's a category error

>>5274970
>Unless you're talking about his intention of virtuous life because it is good for the individual
Yeah that. I might be wrong, I haven't read Aristotle (or Rand) in years. But I do know that Rand's metaphysics and epistemology are lifted directly from Aristotle, and w/r/t ethics both believe in rational self-interest and one's own happiness as the purpose of one's life.

>>5274906
Rand wasn't necessarily against charity but both she and Aristotle maintained that it should be done for selfish reasons

Aristotle

>>5272077
amazon.co.uk/product-reviews/0192854119/ref=cm_rdphist_1?ie=UTF8&filterBy=addOneStar&showViewpoints=0

>>5269504
Are you saying you did read Philosophical Investigations? Because it's evident from the OP that you didnt or that you didn't understand it.

Words are not not mere names for objects.

Pic related is ok, or I would say just have a good general knowledge of Russell and Frege and then start the Tractatus. The latter will be hard work but you'll be fine as long as you take your time and take notes. Don't progress until you understand everything you've read.

>>5261347
These are fun

>>5266124
It's not wrong

>>5265968
No. Only the gene wants to reproduce. we, as humans, just want the pleasure (most of the time). The genes don't know that birth is outlawed.

No. Only 1% of sexual acts between humans are done for reproduction. And if we're being cloned then our sex drive will always be the same.

>>5265676
It's the opposite of obscure, it's ridiculously precise.

>>5265352
>implying I will ever have a girlfriend