/lit/ - Literature

>Tfw you can't use the word cringeworthy without sounding cringeworthy
>Tfw you can't use the term pretentious without sounding pretentious

If God doesn't exist, does that mean morals are subjective?

>Presents great arguments
>Presents good evidence
>Opponent wins on a technicality because of one point in the discussion
Debates are fucking stupid and shouldn't be used for finding objective truths.

>everything is muh forms
>everything is muh mind
>everything is muh body
>everything is muh meaningless
>everything is muh language
why isn't philosophy classified as genre lit yet?

>>17355383
>reading anything published in the 21st century
>even once

>>17303532
>Be

How did Socrates and Plato justify pedophilia again?

does reading philosophy actually do anything for you

>>16897699
>Buddhists wrote replies to and attempted to refute a bunch of Hindu philosophers before Shankara including Kumarila Bhatta and Gaudapada, right up until Shankra's time
>Shankara then pens one of the most thorough critiques of multiple Buddhist schools which any Hindu philosopher had made at that point
>then the Buddhists coincidentally fall silent and stop trying to write refutations of Hindu philosophers
>But every new Vedanta school founder as well as various non-Vedantists all felt compelled to address Advaita in their writings and stake out what their position was in relation to it and why and where they disagreed with Advaita

>B-b-b-but the reasons the Buddhists tapped out of further debates with Hindu schools was because Shankara was a n-nobody...
The cope is obvious

>you suddenly know the exact year of your death
Do you change your reading stack?
Is your current book worth finishing?
I for one will continue to read Kripke's lectures

>introduction starts off with "what could said about X book that hasn't been said already?"

>>14698134
>posthoc redefining the intention of the author based on current year values

>'And as the ...'

>>12814029
>i have the word Mask tattooed on my arm because that whole “wear a mask in public” thing resonates with me to the core

I used to have a gf and I was misrrable but my brain kept tricking me and telling mei was happy.
Now I dont have the gf and I know im happy but each timei allow myself to become happy my brain tricks me and tells me to be miserable
Moral of story : become an alciholc the brain and body deserve to bepoisoned and killed

>>11576775
No I think it only gets worse

>>11559471
>they never get raped
A female soldier getting raped literally triggers the biggest plot point in the entire book 3. Please at least pretend you have read books before commenting on them

>I love X mythology
what it actually means
>I love overanalyzing X mythology to reinforce my left wing/right wing bias

>vidya gaems

>he's reading it because the movie is coming out soon

>BNW is bad

>>10663216
>has a "favorite book"

>Boaventura de Souza Santos
>Antônio Damásio
>José Gomes Canotilho