/lit/ - Literature

>>16579719
>Why be a crypto-platonist (christian) when you can just be a platonist?
Because Jesus Christ is truth, God, and man's first cause and final purpose.

>>16542413
>The annihilation of consciousness terrifies me, /lit/. I don't want to be nothing.
You are not nothing. You are a body in a soul. You are a created material being with the freedom of choice, the power to act in the world for a limited time only. Exercise your virtues, build your humility, and recognize that the sole satisfaction of man is Christ. He is our beginning and our end. Come on OP, let's be saints together.

You already know very well what the New Sincerity is, anons.

>>15832592
>Who got it right? Is man inherently good or evil?
Man, being created, is inherently good.

/thread

>>15717375
>mfw an entire thread of pseuds and not one cogent response to the fpbp

>>15161688
>This all just feels like LARPing
That's because it is. Come to Christ, OP.

>>15021890
>What about Gnosticism
bullshit

>Hinduism
bullshit

>Nietzscheanism
bullshit

>and so forth?
bullshit

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>>14624093
He was a teacher, a rabbi, a prophet, a carpenter, a prisoner of Rome, the son of God, and the savior of mankind. You could call a teacher and a rabbi a philosopher, but that implies he struggles with the truth. Jesus Christ IS the truth.

>>14590094
read this

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sole_Satisfier

then go to your local Catholic church, ask the priest for confession, and begin a life of prayer and repentance.

>>14323371
>Who are true philosophers?
The ones who are honest seekers. The ones who live out their philosophy instead of idly spouting paeans to an idea. As you correctly identified: the knight of [acting in good] faith. Not the critics who hypocritically enjoy the rewards of being associated with philosophy over the cost of performing that philosophy in earnest.

>>14274718
>equate the man with the beast
Yes. Men are beasts.

>everything natural is somehow good
Yes. Creation was made by God, who is good, and God called it good, and it is good.

>contempt for all the material world. This perverse, barbaric individual, in their hatered of the enlightenment, yearns for the dark horrors of the uncivilized past. It wants to grind all that it dislikes into dust, and replace it with its own horrifying visage, a totalitarian religion of submission to its own antediluvian ideals.
Yes.

>>14268405
>which maxims should be universal?
>(implied question being what is Good?)
>utilitarian bugman answer: "best possible combination of maxims governing humanity"

kant is europe's confucius. what a dope.

>>14268275
Stirner is alright if you behave like an animal. Philosophy has already been solved lads. Pic related.

>>14140615
>"That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die."
based Lovecraft, nothing is ever really destroyed only transformed

>>14006398
>then how can you simultaneously argue that the transcendent Good is being impeded
It is not being impeded. It is functioning normally, although to our eyes it is unfair and cruel and malfunctioning. That's only because we're flesh. The final cause of creation (Omega) is being served, even in what we call evil.

>It doesnt seem to be what Plotinus is arguing
Agreed. He said "even there the perfect forming principles are present." As I am suggesting.