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Is literature destroying our children? 2017-03-14 05:47:16 Post No.9235540
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Is literature destroying our children?
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2017-03-14 05:47:16
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Children's books simplify the workings of the world.
>There are good people, and then there's bad people.
>Beautiful people are good, ugly people are bad.
>Men must be brave, women must be helpless.
Etc.
Aside from children's book, literature is often said to be great because it yields sympathy and understanding, and it can explain complex human conditions.
Yet children's books seem to do the opposite.
Do you think this is an issue and do you think you were negatively impacted in some way by what you read as a child? What would you have your children read?
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>>9235540
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>>9235548
Bitch did I stutter?
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>What would you have your children read?
I'd start my kids with the Greeks at age 2 and have them writing my analysis of Infinite Jest on /lit/ by 6.
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You guys ever read drunk? Writing and drinking go hand in hand, why not reading too?
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I can't read after 3 beers
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i used to get drunk with girls from my highschool and occasionally wrote shitty poetry when i got home, still pissed
eventually i would tear the papers and throw them out in embarrassment. now it's just a fond memory
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>>9235086
Fuck no to both. Being drunk is only good for social interaction if you ask me. I hate being alone when drunk.
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I will be interviewing Knausgaard in a couple of weeks, any suggestions on what I should ask him?
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Ya ask him when the fuck book 6 is out in English. And ask him to fund my Tor Ulven tranlsation work. Also, ask him for a recent pic of Vanja.
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>>9234443
Y is he a faget
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>>9234443
Is he quit smoking?
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What are the required readings to fully appreciate Shakespeare?
I've read about half the Bible, most of Plato, and Homer.
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Canzoniere
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>>9233196
Literally the only things Shakespeare read was The Geneva Bible, Ovid, and Plutarch along with some English history books no one reads anymore.
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>>9233196
Paul Dry books publishes the Arthur Golding translation of the Metamorphoses, which is the one Shakespeare himself owned. Down to earth and very easy to read, surprisingly.
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Post the first line of your new novel litIt's not like is going anywhereHard mode: not CRASH and enemys jokes
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Call me Enemy
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I AM
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Daylight savings sodomized me.
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Are these three philosophers the leaders of the weird alt right?
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>>9230454
alt-right is for virgins
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>>9230454
we had this thread yesterday. Do you actually have anything interesting to say about them?
I like Land, but Icy Calm and that other dude are a joke.
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>>9230454
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ITT: Authors you want to punch in the face.
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>>9230083
im sad he never made his sword fighting simulator game.
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>>9230136
i'm sad that he hasn't released the sequel to "Seveneves".
WHAT DO YOU MEAN, IT'S FINISHED?
NO IT ISN'T! IT JUST STOPPED!
FINISH IT! STOP FUCKING AROUND WITH GREG BEAR AND THAT FUCKING STUPID MONGOLIAD!
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>>9230083
The guy who wrote my diary, desu.
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In your best prose, write about man's innate lust for women.
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Thoughts about academic philosophy 2017-03-10 07:17:51 Post No.9218781
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Thoughts about academic philosophy
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2017-03-10 07:17:51
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Long things short, the philosophy students of my uni are going to ask a meeting with all the philosophy professors because they are fed up by the way it's taught. Our issue is that philosophy is nowadays only history of philosophy, that we don't seen any analytical philosophy, or anything from the pragmatic school. Just, like, it has never been mentioned. That almost all the current thesis currently written are about history of philosophy, about the great, untouchable French philosophers like Foucault or Deleuze. The great idealists, Hegel, Fichte, Schelling. That academia is an ivory tower when there's so much happening currently that would need a philosophical analysis, which is totally absent. I'm not only speaking about direct actuality, but about the internet, the uses of big data, artificial intelligence, automation, the remoteness between people and political actions in democratic countries, ... We want to give the professors practical measures they could take to encourage rational thinking and not learning by heart what name-a-great-french-philosopher said.
We already had a meeting between ourselves and already have some good points, but I'd like to have external commentaries from, if at all possible, philosophy students from others unis/countries to add weight to some comments. That's the purpose of this post: having the point of foreign students, which are taught in another way. We do not have much hope, honestly, but it will certainly make a local impact, as more than half of the students are united around the idea.
Even saying why that's stupid would help, any rational argument is welcome, we're not even sure we're right, but we have enough rational issues about clarity, etc. to ask some explanation, I think. We just love philosophy and that's why we're going to quit next year, we just can't bear to see it in such a reduced state, slowly but steadily dying as its scope narrows itself. Interdisciplinary is what we've bet on.
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>we don't like X
>we would like to change X
>we're going to quit X
Yeah, you can see the lack of practical education.
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>>9218781
History, or better historiography of philo will serve you better in the long run.
Honestly with any disciplin historiography is what you must consume to become relevant participant in its practice.
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>>9218806
This is basically what a undergraduate degree is. If you want to push the bounds, get a PhD
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Rec me some books about the fall of culture in Europe.
Bonus points if it was written by a non-hack
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>>9237121
Polybius-Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire
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The Phenomenology of Spirit.
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mask u sumfin, who won filosofy?
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Stirner, then Neetshoe, then Witty, then Jye-Jack.
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Science did
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>>9237089
Lol get out of here /tv. We don't need your hilarious memes we already have DFW
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How do you guys remember over 80% of what you read?
My biggest frustration is that I'll read a history book and then forget most of the names mentioned or the particular places. Fiction is a lot easier to memorize obviously
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I don't. I see it as a filtering mechanism: if it was important I would've remembered it.
You could look into the tricks the Greeks used to remember stuff - or was it the Romans, can't remember
There was a book "Walking with Einstein" that was about those tricks but I never finished it
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>>9237062
You should move on to intellectual, dialectical, and social history. Then to source docs and journal articles.
General readers and biographies are always important but they, by necessity, are a narrative of causal events and actors. History becomes a lot more fun once it explicitly interpretive.
Also you can double check or refresh facts with the click of a mouse, no use framing your head full of names and dates
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>>9237102
Where do you reckon I start?
Also, if there are any history majors here, did you develop a certain memorization method?
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which is the recommended german translation for the bible?
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>>9237003
The Koran
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>>9237011
real knee-slapper faggot
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Elberfelder is the best. Schlachter and Zürcher next best. None of these have Apocrypha, though.
Standard church editions are Einheitsübersetzung for Catholics and Lutherbibel for Evangelicals. Both have been thoroughly reworked several months ago. Both are less precise than the ones mentioned before. EÜ aims to be more poetical, Lutheran one obviously aims to preserve the Luther translation.
tl;dr get Elberfelder and read deuterocanonicals from EÜ
>Schopenhauer even went so far as to protest against the use of the pronoun "it" in reference to animals because it led to the treatment of them as though they were inanimate things.
Would have Jordan Peterson contested that?
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Jbp wouldn't care
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>>9236940
You treat a psychology professor (well paid mystic) as of the same ilk as Schopenhauer?
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ITT we discuss Christian apologetics.
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Jacques Ellul is right about everything. We can choose either Christianity or complete misery and alienation.
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>>9236800
Lewis is gay
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>>9236816
>"Dude like I was totally an atheist. Why don't u believe me?????????"
-C.S. Lewis and Lee Strobel