/lit/ - Literature

>>21222189
OP is confused. The Thomas Taylor translations are the best and absolute kino.

>>18704832
He was a shining light of based in a time of pure cringe.

>>16533390
>That also which is most admirable and laudable in this theology is, that it produces in the
mind properly prepared for its reception the most pure, holy, venerable, and exalted
conceptions of the great cause of all.
>For it celebrates this immense principle as something superior even to being itself;
as exempt from the whole of things, of which it is nevertheless ineffably the source, and
does not therefore think fit to connumerate it with any triad, or order of beings.
Indeed, it even apologises for attempting to give an appropriate name to this principle,
which is in reality ineffable, and ascribes the attempt to the imbecility of human nature,
which striving intently to behold it, gives the appellation of the most simple of its
conceptions to that which is beyond all knowledge and all conception. Hence it
denominates it the one, and the good; by the former of these names indicating its
transcendent simplicity, and by the latter its subsistence as the object of desire to all
beings.
>For all things desire good. At the same time however, it asserts that these appellations are
in reality nothing more than, the parturitions of the soul which standing as it were in the
vestibules of the adytum of deity, announce nothing pertaining to the ineffable, but only
indicate her spontaneous tendencies towards it, and belong rather to the immediate
offspring of the first God, than to the first itself.

>>16022872
death and rebirth is the principal feature of our theology
Why shouldn't the faith and tradition suffer the same Fate?

>>15950500
>Jowett is the best