/lit/ - Literature

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>>23112259
Riveting. Thank you for taking up a thread space on this board specifically to tell us that you can’t finish books. That really helps contribute to this board in a positive way.

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>>22956203
Uhhhh y’all ready for this??

>>22646935
Holy ficking dimwit. Head straight back to Redet pronto!

>>22596633
Well yeah, obviously. That doesn’t mean Plato believed nothing and all opinions are valid.

>teach the oath as a historical reference point in medicine, encourage discussion on how it is and is not relevant today. There’s no need to administer a very outdated oath that is contrary to modern medical practice to point out its value now.”

>“The old Hippocratic Oath is completely archaic, not to mention its flagrant sexism.”

>“The original HO includes several statements that are controversial or no longer relevant to the practice of modern medicine (euthanasia, abortion, surgery, making decisions without patient input, considering teachers = parents) and I would not feel comfortable swearing the original at any point in my training, except possibly if it was in the original Greek. I think the modified Oath is much more appropriate for the modern physician, but would prefer if it began with ‘first, do no harm.’”

>The major issue I have with the original oath regards death and abortion. I believe a woman has a right to abort should she chose. The second issue I have is regarding the language used to describe giving ‘deadly medicine.’ This sentence could be misconstrued to have several meanings, one of which would include allowing a peaceful death. For example, giving an individual a much larger dose of morphine that eases their way through the dying process, but in and of itself could be considered ‘deadly.’ One could also consider certain drugs we give, such as chemotherapy, as ‘deadly.’ In my opinion, the sentence was meant to prevent providing suicide, early death, or aiding in murder. The ambiguity of the sentence in combination with the current gray area regarding hospice care make this sentence less applicable.”

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>>22438550
Notice that in the poem, he also puts himself and the goddess in a chariot at the center of night and day symbolizing the center of all truth and knowledge.

>>22436875
Oh look, the faggot Redditor op escaped from his habitat. I just collectively pooped in everyone in this threads pants just now, ten years ago.

>excoriates other philosophers by name for not being as smart as him
>comes up with a weak basis for unity of opposites but is just as dogmatic about it as anyone else

What was Heraclitus’ problem? Dunning-Kreuger?

>>22431939
Wow, chatgp was programmed by Reddit.

>>22430117
There is a website for lotr fans. It is called REDDIT.

>>22413498
Heraclitus literally made a prose book on the unity of opposites where he excoriated every single thinker who came before him BY NAME for missing it by focusing on arcane details. He would’ve agreed with you how great he supposedly is with his non-falsifiable theory.

>>22402806
Surprising she doesn’t mention Sam Butler because he wrote an entire book about how the Odyssey was written by a woman from Sicily based on incredibly spurious evidence. The Homeric tradition is wrong because some 19th century lib cuck decided otherwise.

>>22401504
Anything which I Jon Kolner, arbitrarily decide to be /lit/worthy is thus litworthy. It is not hard.

Stand by me has a place in my heart as a film which I enjoyed at a young age but that is an “entrance” to art and there is much better out there. King can stay on Reddit where he belongs.

>>22392409
You anger me because of your egotistical nature. I fail to see how that man is an asshole for asking you to stop lecturing him on a topic he has zero interest in and never asked to hear about.

>>22192369
I never liked how Parmenides depicts himself as the arbiter of truth (literally at the halfway point between night and day) in this poem when his entire brief system is unfalsifiable anyways.

>The natural world remains at a distance, because it is apprehended only by the senses. So too do human beings: "A real human being, however profoundly we sympathize with him, is in large part perceived by our senses, that is to say, remains opaque to us, presents a dead weight which our sensibility cannot lift."

>Fictional characters, on the other hand, occur "within us." The novelist "provokes in us within one hour all possible happinesses and all possible unhappinesses just a few of which we would spend years of our lives coming to know and the most intense of which would never be revealed to us because the slowness with which they occur prevents us from perceiving them."

>Similarly, the landscapes of the imagination have for the narrator an immediacy that observed nature lacks. But then memory transforms the external world into a world that can be apprehended by the imagination. So these reflections on the relationship between life and art, between nature and the imagination, between experience and memory, end with a lyrical valorizing of the Sunday afternoons in Combray:


This is very true and extremely apt to speak of why literature draws closer to us than humans ever have. Fictional characters are easy to sympathize with and you are given a small look into their lives in comparison with someone you interact with day to day. Your emotional responses can more easily be taken advantage of with a fictional person than they could with a real life person.

This is part of why I am such an evil person because the lessons which literature teaches us are hard for me to recreate in a real life scenario. It is harder to see the virtues which day to day people have to offer when a story of Saint Joan of Arc or an adaptation of Plato’s Apology have spoiled the concept for you.

>>22077666
He would support abortion and he would kill all the autistic kids (result of elderly procreating) like he wanted in Republic Book 6.

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>>21915525
The Reddit
They spammed an ancient and stale meme
Yes
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The narwhal bacons, my friend

>>21710168
The Authoress of the Odyssey

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