/lit/ - Literature

>>15882498
the secret teachings of all ages being an enclyopediac outline of masonic, hermetic, qabbalistic, and rosicrucian symbolical philosophy by manly p hall is a good start

otherwise i would suggest the authors of the traditionalist school like evola and guenon as another place to look

I'm plowing through Montaigne.
But if I read some Neoplatonist tome I'm like 20 pages an hour if I focus. Proclus Commentary of Plato's Parmenides is like 12 pages an hour.

>>13745526
It's the state of nature.
A "small" group of people left to their own devices will naturally converge into having a little group who are found to be knowledgeable and fit to lead—these are guardians, and because of necessity it will be communitarian (this also occurs to nations in total war), as in people: are only given their necessities and are prevented to hoard resources, criminals are dealt with brutally, those fit to lead take command and people LOVE handing over responsibility.

But the republic is about our own selves, harmony of soul.

>>13719163
no u
solipsism is an affirmative belief and not a negation, in fact there are no agnostic positions, every negation affirms something else; why should I affirm myself, solipsism is not absolute skepticism. Descartes is a pussy, he didn't go all the way.