/lit/ - Literature

The Rick and Morty of philosophy.

>tfw /lit/ loves idealism and hates Bertrand Russell even though Russell was a crypto-idealist

>>10437584

Am I the only one who is disillusioned with literature (of course I'm not, but bear with me)? Most of it seems like fluffy speculation using flowery poetic/mystical language to make it sound correct. I'm just getting tired of reading old-ass white men (inb4 SJW) who write as if they have all the secrets of the universe - pushing their opinions as if they're the truth.

Stop being christian

>you can't prove a negative existential
>there is no rhinoceros in this room

what did he mean by this

Did he solve the mind-body problem?

no..no..NO

I got this

It is said that the mark of falsehood is failure to cohere in the body of our beliefs, and that it is the essence of a truth to form part of the completely rounded system which is The Truth.
There is, however, a great difficulty in this view, or rather two great difficulties. The first is that there is no reason to suppose that only one coherent body of beliefs ispossible. It may be that, with sufficient imagination, a novelist might invent a past for the world that would perfectly fit on to what we know, and yet be quite different from the real past. In more scientific matters, it is certain that there are often two or more hypotheses which account for all the known facts on some subject, and although, in such cases, men of science endeavour to find facts which will rule out all the hypotheses except one, there is no reason why they should always succeed.

So does he agree that evolution and creationism *could* be compatible?

>Schopenhauer habitually dined well, at a good restaurant; he had many trivial love-affairs, which were sensual but not passionate; he was exceedingly quarrelsome and unusually avaricious. ... It is hard to find in his life evidences of any virtue except kindness to animals ... In all other respects he was completely selfish. It is difficult to believe that a man who was profoundly convinced of the virtue of asceticism and resignation would never have made any attempt to embody his convictions in his practice.

He's right, you know...

Was this gentleman a good philosopher?

Where would be a good place to start with poetry? I read a little bit of yeats poems today. They were alright, very rhymy. I like how they're not all retarded poems about religion or whatever. I really like maldorer. Where should I start if I want to be well poemed?

>Champion of sexual liberation
>pacifist
>historian of philosophy
>advocate of idleness and more free time
>critic of religious dogma and agnostic or atheist.

Why is Bertrand Russell so awesome?

How this nigga smoke that pipe and not die of cancer before 98?

>>9071590
Just read it.

What do you think about people who don't read pure philosophy? Is it a necessary part of being well educated? Has every great author read Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Spinoza, Kant etc.?

Is it okay to just get a quick overview from someone like pic related before going on to explore other interests?