/lit/ - Literature

>>16035524
Please post it here when you're done, I want to see another Belcea-esque philosophy shitpost

>>16015454
The suggestion that scholars "can't ignore bad ideas" is a nonstarter. In science there are a thousand bad ideas for every good one. "Doing battle" against all of them is not an option for mere mortals, and doing battle against some of them is a tacit acknowledgment that those have enough merit to exceed the onerous threshold of attention-worthiness. MacDonald's ideas, as presented in summaries that would serve as a basis for further examination, do not pass that threshold, for many reasons:

1. By stating that Jews promulgate scientific hypotheses because they are Jewish, he is engaging in ad hominem argumentation that is outside the bounds of normal scientific discourse and an obvious waste of time to engage. MacDonald has already announced that I will reject his ideas because I am Jewish, so what's the point of replying to them?

2. MacDonald's main axioms – group selection of behavioral adaptations, and behaviorally relevant genetic cohesiveness of ethnic groups – are opposed by powerful bodies of data and theory, which Tooby, Cosmides, and many other evolutionary psychologists have written about in detail. Of course any assumption can be questioned, but there are no signs that MacDonald has taken on the burden of proof of showing that the majority view is wrong.

3. MacDonald's various theses, even if worthy of scientific debate individually, collectively add up to a consistently invidious portrayal of Jews, couched in value-laden, disparaging language. It is impossible to avoid the impression that this is not an ordinary scientific hypothesis.

4. The argument, as presented in the summaries, fails two basic tests of scientific credibility: a control group (in this case, other minority ethnic groups), and a comparison with alternative hypotheses (such as Thomas Sowell's convincing analysis of "middlemen minorities" such as the Jews, presented in his magisterial study of migration, race, conquest, and culture).

>>16013225
>they're just filler words
they seem to me at this very moment filler words

>>6987299
German Empire created the modern welfare state.

>>6588426
>99% of the population

>>6543008
Thoroughly enjoyable.

What's the difference between, say, "The Alchemist" and "Ulysses"? What makes one shit and the other a masterpiece in comparison to themselves and others? Want to hear your opinion /lit/.

>>6157455
>he hasn't read cuck finn

Are there any philosophies that speak of women being a memre gender?

>>6141373
>Harry Potter and the Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

>>6086380
>To assure those who are homosexual, that there's nothing wrong with them.
but there is something wrong with them

>>6072118
>novels
you mean picture books?

The MRA weirdos are one of the major reasons I only check up on 4chan a few times a month now. Over the past few years all the awkward virgens that made this site funny are growing bitter and delusional. They've grown smug.

inb4 stupid person quotes things like "communism has never been tried" because #3 got him butthurt because he knows deep down that only dumb people hate Marxism

>>5792559
Societies that never achieved much.

>in literature class
>don't pay any attention because i'm too busy fantasizing about having sex with qts who sit near me

>>5585425
>It's an objectively and empirically observed phenomenon

>>5555066
>Hence Pepe, desirous of curing this defect in Anon, gave him a pocketful of spaghetti to carry through the GameStop, and when he saw that Anon was ashamed and tried to hide it and keep it out of sight, with a slash of his knife, Pepe sliced open the pocket. As Anon began to run off in embarrassment with the spagehtti flowing down his legs, Pepe chided, "Why run away, my little autist? Nothing terrible has befallen you."

Which philosophical school of thought should I parrot to appear smart and educated when I'm neither?

If history isn't real, how do we know what happened in the past?