/lit/ - Literature

>>15002771
Yes. If anything I think I have a much more firm sense of virtue and what it is because of it. I don't recommend of course. Maybe I sound arrogant for saying this, but most people don't have the capacity for independent thought that I have, or people like me, and would be trapped and a product of their environment for the rest of their lives. Way too many parents also have this laissez-faire when it comes to upbringing nowadays. A strong code of conduct and a strong leading figure (a father) need to be the foundation for both household and country; even if most people as I said are too unassuming to figure out why. A woman for example, especially these days will not readily accept a subordinate position to her husband and in society, even if this would be a better way of going about life.

>>14993478
since their god is free foremost, and morality is created, he is free to whatever he wish with it, good is not absolute in Christianity; ergo: morality is whatever their god decides it is

I am working through a long-term enterprise: that is gaining a very thorough understanding of the Platonic/Aristotelian tradition itself and (as I understand it) its flow through Neoplatonism and Scholasticism. I am very passionate about the subject matter, HOWEVER -> this will obviously take considerable effort and time. Would it be wise to, before I continue, Read Hume and (more importantly) Kant's Critiques? I am already slightly familiar with those ideas, but didn't finish the CoPR. The question is: would it be wiser to undertake aforementioned project with the critical mind of a Kantian (in a way) so that I can busy myself with these often misunderstood metaphysical treatises and heed myself from falling into crude dogmatism and so that I can defend eg. neoplatonist metaphysics (if that is justified) from the attacks/criticisms of empiricists/idealists? Pls halp

>>14912109
misinterpreted Zoroastrianism (gnosticism and manichaeism), and eastern shit, are the only dualist beliefs out there