/lit/ - Literature

>pinker

>>12718802
>>12718821
Violent retardation

>>12184858
>a Marxist position i.e. everything is a social construct

>>11890508
>MUH FEMINISM

>tfw ruined my brain development with porn and video games

>>11271391
> realize Aristotle blew your primitive panpsychism the fuck out thousands of years before you even started.

Conservatives worship aristotle because he helps them work backwards from metaphysical assertions they already have made without any evidence. He's also their token pagan who set a lot of the ideological groundwork for anti-empiricist Christian Apologia that came way later. Aristotle provides no evidence for his assertions; merely smart-sounding mental gymnastics. Aristotle lived in a time when humans had fewer tools, knew significantly less, and thought thought among other things:

Men have more teeth than women.
Heavy objects fall faster than light objects.
Men's blood is hotter than women's blood.
There are people who are naturally born to be slaves, and it is just and right to enslave them.
The earth is the center of the universe.
The earth and everything in it existed for all eternity and will exist for all eternity.
Some animals spontaneously come into being from mud and earth; they don't reproduce.
The natural state for all objects is to be at rest; they require constant application of force to move.
There are a total of seven heavenly bodies, which are perfect and never change.
Aristotle says that sharks have their mouth underneath to prevent overeating and destroying the whole world.
The world is eternal
The sun will never cease to generate plants and animals. We know that the sun is going to die.
That it is impossible to live at the equator because it is too hot
That everything in the heavens moves in perfect circles.
That eels don’t reproduce

>"no!"

>>11128911
>brain