/lit/ - Literature

>>22031075
Yeah, imagine paying some college to learn about philosophy, when you can just read a bunch of philosophy books. This isn't STEM we're talking about, which need labs, demonstrations, experiments, and updated information. There's barely anything new under the sun in philosophy. Even if there is, you can always buy the philosopher's books and read it yourself.

Not to mention, modern universities aren't the Academy. This isn't ancient Greece, nor the medieval era. We don't need to attended IRL lectures to learn philosophy, since we have the printing press, books, and especially the internet and electronic devices, to read philosophy at the comfort of your house and practically for free.

>>10795983
>Which is the definition of evil.
Spinoza's response would be that good and evil are merely modes of human thought, that only apply to things as they relate to human beings, and not to things as they are "formally," i.e. as they relate exactly to the "Divine nature."
>the following statement are developing the theory of what we call 'will'.
How are you using "will"? I am with Schopenhauer in the belief that the body is the will objectified. In this sense ever subject with a body manifests their will in a "completely material" way, in the sense that the body itself (as a body, generally speaking) is made of nothing but material.

About the "nature of reality," I will try to make my position as clear as possible. I will never know things as they are, only as they appear to me. But I couldn't know things as they are without being something other than myself, anyway, so the only reasonable option is to take them as they appear to me, as objects to the subject, as phenomena. My existence in time proves the existence of exterior objects, not as they are, but as they relate to me, and these objects in turn by their very existence allow me to differentiate my physical self (my body) from the other objects.
>Or that experiencing reality simply just is a phenomenon of itself a benefactor of other's interpretations?
I think I am reading this correctly, are you asking whether or not I think reality is defined by intersubjective consensus? If so, I say it is not. The concept which best generalizes the relationship of any given consciousness to a determined object or phenomenon is not necessarily the concept which most consciousnesses hold to be true. The conflicts between Heliocentrism and Geocentrism, flat Earth ideas and round Earth ideas, etc., are historical situations in which the intersubjective consensus was decidedly not on the side of truth. But, conversely, the only way to add to the general idea of truth is to first arrive at an intersubjective agreement (in some cases "across time") with people who do know what is true, and to expand that truth. Further, reality is not truth. If reality is the totality of existence, including all that is subjective and all that is objective, it can by definition never be fully described in detail. But truths bring certain portions of reality into accordance with the general rule of consciousness.

Which books on Skepticism and Pyrrhonism does /lit/ recommend?

Also, wasn't nihilism invented by Diogenes?

What does /lit/ think of Diogenes?

*blocks your sunlight*

>>9248462
See: Diogenes of Sinope

>>9198421
>>9198519
>"If only I could end my hunger by rubbing my belly!"
>"I would like you to stand out of my sunlight."
>"If it was your destiny to steal, it was your destiny to be beaten with a staff."

Is there a better philosopher than Diogenes of Sinope?

Stoicism is the worst, most meme philosophy. Sadly, it's among those with whom /lit/ has a seemingly constant love affair.

At least pick one of the GOOD meme ones, like Diogenes-tier Cynicism.

Then get the fuck outta my sunlight.

>>8903334

>24
>I've had sex with 2 girls but have been unable to cum in either (I just go flaccid and have to bail)
>Ulysses

>>8829151

He destroyed the argument.

In fact, he destroyed Plato constantly. The amount of asshurt he caused Plato is legendary.

>>8823425

>quality
>fiction

One day us philosophers will rip this board from your cold, story-reading hands.

>>8823436

>2016
>Not liking Schopenhauer/Nietzsche
>Wasting your time with Hegel when you have Schopenhauer
>Implying the apocryphal Diogenes quotes aren't great

Get out of my sunlight, fucker.

How many books does /lit/ actually READ?

By this I mean, how much of a book can you actually remember? How much of it has entered your mind at a deep level, so that it will always be a part of you, and you will be influenced by it without knowing this is happening?

>>6953270
Read all of the stories about Diogenes, do what a dog would do.

>>6811796
Diogenes.

>when senpai notices you but you dgaf

What is name of the phenomena where you know an argument or thought in your head but can't articulate it in words? For example, I *know* what story I want to make and *know* the arguments for Egoism, but I just can't articulate them with words, its like a fog envolopes my mind and I just can't quite see through it to grab the words. How do I combat this? Has anyone else experienced it and how did you overcome it?

BTW I really struggled to write this comment.

Literally all that's known about him are a few questionably true anecdotes and hearsay. How is he taken seriously as a philosopher?

>>6217636
>being misocynic

Confirmed for psychopath.

Name a more based philosopher than Diogenes

Protip: You can't

>>6105778
why not faget

What should I read if I want to learn more about Diogenes?

>>6000257
That is this graph. This is how adult life works.

>mfw you plebs keep striving for bullshit

>>5960507
The bottom is the best place because you can't fall down and hurt yourself.

Masturbating in public is the greatest virtue.