/lit/ - Literature

Become an historical

based rapistchad
cringe women's rights soijak

post yfw you come back to some shitty writing you did years ago and you make it into kino

Ill have a balkanized hero sandwich please

Fuck off Mike. You can't write for shit, and it's borderline comical how desparate you are to be right wing, whereas anyone with the smallest semblance of intelligence can see that you're just a lost little boy with daddy issues who is so desperate for attention that he spams his shit on 4chan 24/7. We all think you are a midwit and a clown.

>>19730725
Back to suffering then...

is this the thread where latam retardation is finally revealed bros?

>>19032646
>>19032655
losers

>>18293684
Of Hypatia the Female Philosopher.

THERE was a woman at Alexandria named Hypatia, daughter of the philosopher Theon, who made such attainments in literature and science, as to far surpass all the philosophers of her own time. Having succeeded to the school of Plato and Plotinus, she explained the principles of philosophy to her auditors, many of whom came from a distance to receive her instructions.

On account of the self-possession and ease of manner, which she had acquired in consequence of the cultivation of her mind, she not unfrequently appeared in public in presence of the magistrates. Neither did she feel abashed in coming to an assembly of men. For all men on account of her extraordinary dignity and virtue admired her the more. Yet even she fell a victim to the political jealousy which at that time prevailed. For as she had frequent interviews with Orestes, it was calumniously reported among the Christian populace, that it was she who prevented Orestes from being reconciled to the bishop. Some of them therefore, hurried away by a fierce and bigoted zeal, whose ringleader was a reader named Peter, waylaid her returning home, and dragging her from her carriage, they took her to the church called Caesareum, where they completely stripped her, and then murdered her with tiles. After tearing her body in pieces, they took her mangled limbs to a place called Cinaron, and there burnt them. This affair brought not the least opprobrium, not only upon Cyril, but also upon the whole Alexandrian church. And surely nothing can be farther from the spirit of Christianity than the allowance of massacres, fights, and transactions of that sort. This happened in the month of March during Lent, in the fourth year of Cyril's episcopate, under the tenth consulate of Honorius, and the sixth of Theodosius.

Buddhists and Advaitins.
fuck those leeches

>>18128118

Actually a study by Dr McShartyFarty shows that 90% ofboo dingalings exist on a pareto distrubition indication teh epistemological validaty of of sir stinky dink bo binky's metaphysical thesis of booo booo goo goo nigga balls

>>17764240
>>17764572
I despise God. I believe that YHWH exists and is an omniscient, omnipotent entity, and I will do my best to fuck him over.

>talking bushes

>>16584496
>that the ending of Mark is a later addition.
Only by following the Latin and Egyptian documents, the byzantine documents far outnumber the former fragments, even if their papyruses are physically older than the Greek Byzantine texts. Being physically older doesn't mean more genuine since they're all copies and the lack of the ending of Mark is likely an error of the copyist/translator.

before you call me biased (touché)
i am >>16584367

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>>16364831
>conservatives are people that want to preserve
This is correct, the rest is retarded.
Anyway who came up with this dumbfuck imaginary dividing line betweeting preservation and restoration that they supposedly need separate movements? How can conservatism be an ideology if it must always be yesterday's progressivism, lest it be labled "reactionary" and forever outcasted?

>>16191083

Correlation always implies relation, relation always implies shared causal chain somewhere up or down the line.
As in.
>Real correlation always implies direct or indirect causation.

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>>16098422
what the fuck is the point of reading porphyry's Isagoge if you then don't read Aristotle's Categories

>>15950652
>>15950674
Yes, will you abandon the external world and yourself to stay true to only believe in the provable?

>>15941045
>philosophically illiterate speaks
Damascius denies the identity thesis: “we can say, therefore, that knowledge completely accords with the content of knowledge, but it is not the content of knowledge.” Damascius criticizes the Neoplatonist theory of intellection and the identity thesis that underlies it, emphasizing the substantive differentiation between the knower and the known to show that the intellect never encounters its object, Being, as it is in itself. Moreover, he uses premises supplied from within Neoplatonic metaphysics to demonstrate this nonidentity of subject and object. There seem to be three steps in his refutation of the Neoplatonic identity thesis. In step 1 Damascius accepts Proclus’ theory of intellectual reversion but concludes (step 2) that reversion entails the nonidentity of the knower (intellect) and the object known (knowledge). Finally, in step 3, Damascius then applies this denial of the identity thesis to Neoplatonic epistemology and concludes that the intellect never knows Being as it is in itself, since the intellect can never be strictly identical with Being. It is this last application that raises the most interesting questions about Damascius’ own theory of knowledge. By analogy to the Skeptics, who assert that the intellect knows only its own pathe, and never reaches the object itself, Damascius concludes that the intellect knows its object qua object known. While the Skeptics maintain that the mind can only know the phantasia, or impression, Damascius renders this doctrine with the Neoplatonizing counterpart, that intellect can only grasp the phanon, or appearance, of Being. ...Damascius recommends that knowledge must be unitive or rather, that there must be a release from all knowing, if Being is ever to be encountered as it is.
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As Damascius comments, in unified knowledge, the mind does not attempt to assimilate the object. Rather, the mind completely abandons itself and itself becomes the object; the object itself no longer exists, and hence the mind no longer desires to discover it. Here, one can no longer speak of intellect knowing being. Rather, because intellect offers its separate identity to the aspect of the One it contemplates as unity, it is not possible to posit intellect as an absolutely separate and distinct hypostasis. In quoting the phrase, “outside the intellect” from the Chaldean Oracles, Damascius suggests that intellect is not separate from the One. This nondual approach brings the One into all the hypostases without thereby collapsing them. Again using metaphorical language, Damascius describes the experience in which intellect disappears: “We attempt to look at the sun for the first time and we succeed because we are far away. But the closer we approach the less we see. And at last we see neither Sun nor other things, since we have completely become the light itself, instead of an enlightened eye”.