/lit/ - Literature

>>21957283
I would only do that if a companion work was published in the same week at only a fraction of the page count, and I edited both entirely. Future pop-culture critics and historians could bicker about whether my curation of late 00s and 10s internet cultural history was a valuable resource or historical white-noise biased by a virgin middle class boy who thought himself more relevant than he actually was

Refute the third man problem right now

>>13920213
is there a secret conspiracy to make me like musilms or something?

anyway isnt the difference that islam rules according to religion and the west rules according to edgy atheist "values"?

>>13777508
Pleb.

>A good portrait of the gods and heroes will show them as worthy and exalted beings — but poets such as Homer and Hesiod often tell tales of the gods and heroes fighting and bickering and acting immorally.
>A moral citizen’s soul will be composed and dignified — but many musical modes stir us up inside and make us jangled and unsettled.
>A strong and moral man will not grieve the death of a friend by moaning and wailing like a woman — but poets regularly have their characters issue long, pathetic lamentations
>Decent people respect and strive for worthiness — but comic poets appeal to our basest desires and mock and deride everything

What does /lit/ think of Plato’s belief in the importance of censorship in his ideal form of government, the Republic? Is philosophy more important than art?

When reading numerous books on a subject, what's the best way to really retain the information? I want to be able to read multiple philosophical works and form an opinion from everything instead of just forgetting the work I'm reading by the time I finish the next one.

>mfw it's 2016 and people still unironically take Aristotle seriously

I've gotten into literature more seriously since the last year and I'm thinking it's about time I hit the greeks. Where should I start?