/lit/ - Literature

>>13162280
A virtual Polis, where all anons are equal and tripfag harvest our memes.

>>12915504
I'm the anon you replied to. What you described seems to be a jump from one shadow to another. You've substituted one particular world with a newer one. The big problem here is that the "realness" shared between those two worlds is in fact exactly the same. What difference in nature is there between those two circumstances you described? They are both particular, material in substance, ever-changing, temporal, and most apparently imperfect.

Only that place which really does differ from this world in how it is immaterial, eternal, and perfect can be considered truly "real", or at the very least much more real than any world falling short of it such as the world we occupy in our day-to-day lives no matter how we organize ourselves. This sort of true reality different from the crude imitation we live in can only be accessed by a mind which thinks, so limiting thought can only have the effect of further detaching ourselves from such reality. You might *feel* better, for now, but such feelings have no correlation to the truth of the apparent reality you experience.

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/lit/, how do we make sure we are ruled by a Philosopher King?

Okay /lil/, which approach is better for achieving higher quality writing? Imitation of the divine/nature, as Plato and Aristotle said, or the imitation of previous authors, as Dionysus said?

>the year of our lord 2019
>pursuing philosophy degree
>pursuing english degree
>pursuing any degree

The last batch of degrees that were "worth it" were the engineering degrees handed out this decade.

Interest rates are not going to go down and the world economy is on the brink of turmoil. If you're not on some mystical scholarship, interest rates will make engineering barely pay for itself and wages will not keep up as inflation will skyrocket when the capital that was parked at the fed and is currently entering the market starts to affect real wages in a few years. Even engineering is going to shit as all the positions and schools are being flooded with affirmative action women and browns.

>oh I'll get a philosophy degree and teach

Yeah, good luck with that. Its gonna take you 6 years to get the qualifications and the public sector massively outpaced private sector growth in the last 20 years. When cards come tumbling down in a few years you will see very real reduction in hiring, pay, and even job cuts for jobs like professors or social workers.

start with the greeks newfag

>>12553171
Based

>>12547434
Op here
>city and store(s)
Nashville TN. McKays, Rhino Booksellers, Various thrift stores/goodwills. If anyone knows of other bookstores in Nash just let me know
>is it a good bookstore?
Yes McKays has tons of books (although their copies of Lolita, Catch 22, and Calvino books are a bit pricey for used ie $7-9)
>what’s your best book or deal you’ve found there?
I found Invisible Cities for $1 (albeit with highlighter markings in it, I plan on buying a new copy soon). I also found Carpenters Gothic for $0.75 and Brothers Karamazov for $3. The best thing about McKays is it’s cheap and you can find /lit/ approves classics along with more modern and lesser known classics. I also with the philosophy was a bit cheaper but I’m a tightwad so can’t realy complain here.

>>12545445
What was brilliant about it? It seemed like petty-bourgeois humanist moralizing. In fact, he sounded extremely religious in that respect, and didn't have any concrete arguments to back up what he says, with almost all his cases built heavily on emotional appeals.

>>12540263
Your girlfriend is right to hate these abominations. They would molest her off-spring.
I hate sodomites.

>>12528043
That's a good choice I hadn't thought of. I salute you

>>12526195
Is /trv/ any good? Should I read the travel literature chart and go abroad?

>>12521875
Horrifyingly? Kid, let me tell ya somethin.

>Sophocles, --are you still the man you were? Peace, he replied; most gladly have I escaped the thing of which you speak; I feel as if I had escaped from a mad and furious master. His words have often occurred to my mind since, and they seem as good to me now as at the time when he uttered them. For certainly old age has a great sense of calm and freedom; when the passions relax their hold, then, as Sophocles says, we are freed from the grasp not of one mad master only, but of many. The truth is, Socrates, that these regrets, and also the complaints about relations, are to be attributed to the same cause, which is not old age, but men's characters and tempers; for he who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.

Neither.
Male orgasm is a lobotomy.

>>12511855
FACT.
Instant coffee drinkers have their heads bashed in.

>>12509255
>Debate team
>debate clubs
>next level, speed debating
Low IQ, bourgeois, and pseud. Adolf Hitler never was on a debate team yet was able to outwit 30 other parties because he was a good speaker and charismatic.

Benyamine Shapiro is the opposite of Hitler. Terrible speaker. Stuffy. Poor body language. Just complete shit tier. The fact that these kids look up to him, even plagiarize off him, is almost laughable.

Pro-tip, you could be entirely correct when it comes to "debating" in such confined environments, and win pats on your backs from the professors in the room for your invocation that your opponent was fallacious but it does not mean jack shit in the real world. Rhetoric and Charisma, not Debate and Contrarianism. Keep your mouth shut in the public sphere until you are 30. Learn, and refine your arguments and beliefs until then. Demolish pseuds like Benjyamine Shapiro and these kids then. They do not stand a chance in the real world against great speakers and rhetoricians.

>DUDE DEPRESSION DUDE
Rubbish. Jacking off hurts writing ability more than being miserable does. In fact, misery is often the catalyst that allows excellent writing and novel thoughts to be penned.
You are a fool who fell for lowbrow Facebook memes.

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>>12476633
Fuck niggers.

>>12473372
Translation matters.
The Cambridge translation is absolute shit.