Archived threads in /lit/ - Literature - 1377. page

There is no meaning. Just get comfy and enjoy the ride.

If I knew, I wouldn't be here.

>>9351125
If you want a book to spoonfeed you manufactured meaning your options are religion or the self-help section

There is no value. Philosophy education is just historiography. If you want to actually develop your analytical skills and abstract thought capabilities you should switch to math.

>>9351037
I don't know why people think a piece of paper is going to magically bestow value on them...
>mfw [marxism intensifies]
The value is what you put into it. University is a vehicle and you'll learn a shit tonne you couldn't have learned on your own as long as you care. And philosophy is the right course for law. Double majoring in English is also a good idea.

>>9351037
I'm a philosophy major but thankfully not in the US where university costs millions and you are unhirable with a humanities degree.

Thinking reading on your own is the same as studying at a uni is so retarded. I see this meme a lot on this website. Writing essays is not something autodidacts do and is something that truly develops philosophy skills.

Anyway, the fact that you already asked this shows you're a retard. So no, don't study philosophy, you will just taint our names.

>>9350910
>watched the video
holy... i want more

>>9350910
>Bookish People
Stopped reading there

Harry Potter "readers" don't count as /lit/

pic related

Hegel's Ladder.

>>9350861
You need to be familiar with the history of metaphysical thought (ie. Plato through to Hegel) through a few introductory texts, preferably at least two with contrasting approaches (for example, chronological vs question-oriented).

That is all that is absolutely required, but you are going to have a bad time if you don't read a few other philosophical works. I recommend healthy sections of Meno, The Republic (Plato), Metaphysics (Aristotle), Discourse on Metaphysics, Monadology (Leibniz), Discourse on Method, Meditations on First Philosophy (Descartes), An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (Hume), An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (Locke), and ESPECIALLY the Critique or Pure Reason (Locke).

sexual frustration

>>9350806
ur mom lole xD

>>9350816
im drunk and laughed at this post

Kleist, Kafka and Büchner.

>>9350805
read Faust again

The accurate order is Goethe>Schiller>Holderlin>Novalis>>9350817
Also Goethe wrote more than Faust. The rest is somewhat optional, but make sure to read Wilhelm Meister and Sorrows of Young Werther.

>>9350755
build a nest egg while gathering experiences then quit and live frugally while writing

>not writing mentally and merely translating the finished work to paper later

>>9350755
Stop with these idiotic posts. This is the reason /lit/ is going to shit.
Remember to sage pointless threads in the options field.

>>9350740
The sound and the fury. My teacher made us use a permanent marker to black out every single use of the word nigger because they were new copies for our year.

>>9350740
The sound and the fury. My teacher made us use a permanent marker to black out every single use of the word nigger because they were new copies for our year.

>>9350746
Oh shit. That must suck.

Well said.

Time is controlled by the sun and the moon

I don't exist, I just think I do.

>>9350519
Entitled Opinions on Life and Literature

ion, protagoras, gorgias, phaedo, symposium

>>9350521
This. It's great

>>9350498
this nigga looks EXACTLY like one of my professors who was in some type of accident and shuffles around. maybe it was the time machine

sh now

Analytic a shit.

>You thought it was a dream but it was actually real
:O

>>9350375
Name three pieces of work aimed at audiences over the age of 11 that actually have done this

>main character was a ghost

I charge $5 commissions for my vore stories, anon.

>>9350349
The victim saw too late that he had unwittingly run out into a species of carnivorous plant: and that, with every step, but particularly with a panicked step, he sank sank several inches more into constricting vines!--and was so dazed at the suddenness, and queerness, of the danger, he could not think how to proceed. To hasten forward seemed altogether unadvisable: to retreat, purposeless: yet to stay in one position, a fatal decision, as, even unmoving, he felt himself being tugged downward, by hideous, implacable, sucking degrees. Casting his eyes wildly overhead, where a meager patch of August sky peeped through a confused lacework of leaves, branches, and sinewy vines, the victim murmured aloud: "but to die here, and now,--and in so degrading a manner!"

slime shops open and I'm a 2013 Honda Civic ready to have my oil changed, too bad I'm the oil and the slime shop is mommy's mouth read to masticate my machine muscles into mushy macronutrients to feed her 72' mustang baby who just opened his slime shop

>>9350308
Should have been called "Hyperbole"

>>9350391
I think you mean 'Understatement'

>>9350399
no

File: IMG_2592.png (279KB, 898x790px) Image search: [Google]

279KB, 898x790px

>yfw read sparknotes analysis and realize how much went over their head

File: Normie.png (42KB, 500x533px) Image search: [Google]

42KB, 500x533px

>tfw you write sparknotes analyses

File: wo.png (8KB, 512x512px) Image search: [Google]

8KB, 512x512px

>tfw sparknotes analysis writes you