/lit/ - Literature

What are some /lit/ documentaries?
Talking about documentaries on specific works, authors or currents.

Bump guys come on, need books on aesthetics

>>12741482

I've always felt like a child unable to understand the adults while reading people arguing about philosophy. So, I decided to educate myself and started with reading Plato's Republic. And now I am laughing. The moment I finished reading Socrates debate with one of the nobleman I understood this was the embodiment of what I always thought about philosophy. It's all people making up words and arguing about semantics while the topic discussed are so simplistic... For example, while Socrates questions what the justice supposed to be, he never defines it. He concludes that the justice is dependent on the context, be it cultural or situational, and while the intent of the conversation is finding out WHAT THE JUSTICE IS, ultimately what's discussed is WHAT DO WE CALL JUSTICE. I am still amused by this, and I am here to ask you just one question. Is philosophy a scam of moving goalposts? So far the only application of it I can see is defining stuff, which is useful in science, as the philosophy of the scientific method it quite important for the knowledge as a whole. But... That's just a tiny fraction of what philosophy is. I've seen a movie about a famous philosopher of the XX century some time ago, he was asking a lot of questions about language, and the movie portrayed him as a madman who got angry at the slightest suggestion that what he was doing was meaningless. To me it seems so, any pseud can make up a ton of shit to blabber about without any sense of reality to the narrative.And that's why I think that ancient philosophers were infinitely better than modern ones. They talked about the ways a state should be constructed, they argued about the reality of humans in the system of statehood, and these ideas defined the future. Now philosophy seems obsolete, we have real science after all.