/lit/ - Literature

There is no post-death state.

Leave your life-denying beliefs behind you or suffer the consequences.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternalism_(philosophy_of_time)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four-dimensionalism#Prominent_arguments_in_favor_of_four-dimensionalism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slaughterhouse-Five
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacetime

>only philosopher that succeeded in court intrigue as well and was directly responsible for chiseling out Alexander the Great and all of his conquests
>succeeded where Plato utterly failed with the prince of Syracuse despite Plato's ramblings on the perfect society

Can you say b-b-based?

>read book 1 of Aristotle's Politics
>"retarded people should be slaves, usury is contemptible, and women are best when they shut up -- Plato was wrong saying they have the same virtues as men"

>an important component to living a virtuous life is to not be ugly

>start with the Greeks
>get filtered immediately
De Anima has literally almost 600 footnotes, 18 on the first page only. I barely got through the foreword, and had to skip the notes about different manuscipts.
Turns out I was the brainlet all along. It was an honour talking to you guys.

more influence than Aristotle.

>is wrong about almost everything
>is even wrong about his disagreements with Plato
>and not in such a way that his metaphysical theories are worse than Plato's
>but rather that most of his theories are nigh identical to Plato's, in-spite of Aristotle's own view that he might disagree with Plato when subsequently doesn't
>Aristotle is only original when he's wrong (his physics, his self-contradictory statement that the soul is not eternal but then that the intellect [higher self] IS eternal, and that Intellect is not the first cause nor the Good itself, etc,.)

>Be Aristotle
>Actual 200+ IQ (in terms of sheer intellectual prowess only Leibniz is close to him)
>Student of the founder of the western philosophical tradition
>Plato: "My Academy is composed of two things, the body of my students and the head of Aristotle"
>Literally invented/discovered logic
>Established the lexicon of the western intellectual tradition
>Author of the greatest ethics treatise ever written (Nicomachean Ethics)
>In terms of sheer influence he was A LITERAL ONE MAN "RENAISSENCE"
>Have such comprehensive and deep body of work that there are theories he was several man
>Nowadays only gets mentioned to illustrate how wrong ancient people were and how modern science got everything right

I wish I was Plato: the man

Is any of his work relevant?

>>11068778
Nicomachean Ethics

>>10917702
What is better than being happy? Everything else, including virtue, is just a means to happiness.

Should I make it a priority to read Nicomachean Ethics?

Are there reasons (not social or psychological) to believe in beliefs within abrahamic religions that are not just philosophical theism?
Even if you agree with the cosmological argument and all that stuff, why does it suddenly make sense to believe in revealed religions and all their other seemingly unjustified beliefs?
I don't get why for example christians act as if philosophy proved their whole religion although I guess the obsession most antireligious people have with disproving philosophical theism is even weirder. (why not just see philosophical theism as a good philosophical theory yet still think that religions themselves are bullshit built around some sound philosophical concepts?)