Opinions? I'm pretty sure most of us have had to read this in the past
>>9946379
>dead
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>white
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>male
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Haven't read it, but you just know it's good
>>9946384
I'm not a fan
>>9946384
Nice prejudice m8, Oliver Twist is the most overrated classic I've read.
>you are transported back in time around 120 years ago and the greatest geniuses of academia come to you to seek enlightenment
>"Aah, Anon, we were just discussing axiomatic set topology as applied to fuzzy logic in Boolean morphologies. What does your 2017 educated mind have to say?"
How many miliseconds before they consider you to be some sort of brainlet for for nothing but the coal mines?
>>9946351
like 2, but I have a big dick so I'll fuck their wives and then make myself feel superior
>>9946351
I'd tell them I know little of philosophy, but I can show them some pretty sick medicines and surgical techniques that can save many lives. I think I'll be fine.
>>9946351
I ask them to break down what they're saying cause I don't speak 1897. Then we can probably level to some degree
Can anyone here explain to me the appeal and support for common law versus civil law? Civil law prioritizes its law on statutes and codified legislation. This means standardization, universal understanding, and clear written reference. However, Common Law relies on decision law: courts interpreting and deciding what the law is. While a decentralized effort in interpreting law can be beneficial for sounder decision making, isn't the idea of decentralized law creation kind of unruly? You have one court deciding that the owner of a bull that gorges a sheep isn't liable while another one decides that the owner is. Nobody can agree what the damn rule is and you're left at the mercy of the judge you're given.
Just give me the cliffnotes version of the Civil vs Common Law debate.
>>9946342
Law law promotes its law on laws and laws. The standard of the standard, world information, and reference reference mean. However, Justice Law has the right to decide: decisions that show the law and enforce the law.
>>9946353
Are you a bot?
please help, I'm confsued
I really like the part with 4 moons and giants. Can you recommend me something similar?
Thoughts?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0c1oF3GENk
what are your thoughts on benzos?
>>9946245
Benzos and Amphetamines are shit, as are opioids and coke.
Molly, WEEDLMAO and psychs are patrician-tier
Just stay sober, you're better off.
i used to work in film and the camera men lived day to day to get high and drunk
>If you had a chance to ask Aristotle what he thought of the idea of writing about physical science for general readers, he would not have understood what you meant. All of his own writing, on physics and astronomy as well as on politics and aesthetics, was accessible to any educated Greek of his time. This is not evidence so much of Aristotle’s skills as a writer, or of the excellence of Greek education, as it is of the primitive state of Hellenic physical science, which made no effective use of mathematics. It is mathematics above all that presents an obstacle to communication between professional scientists and the general educated public.
What the FUCK did he mean by this?
>>9946243
He's wrong. Greek Mathematics is far more complex than usually presented in textbooks. Geometric Algebra is actually quite powerful and many of Aristotle's contemporaries were up to tremendously advanced mathematics (Menaechmus, Dinostratus, Theodorus, Eudoxus, Autolycus, etc.). Explaining modern algebraic notion would likely not be difficult.
>>9946243
In Aristotle's time most things could be understood by the educated class because these things wasn't so advanced that it required special aptitudes and/or years of study.
Now the educated class is fragmented into different specialties because the discourses around each subject matter are so much more developed, many of them actually requiring certain mental potentialities beyond the potentialities you need for baseline education.
>>9946243
Aristotle's time is a combination of subscribers and administrators under smaller groups of organizations. At this time, children's learning styles are different because they are a major night of major events, with a strong mental and non-Gourmet mind.
what's the best translation of the lotus sutra, /lit/? i've been reading bhikkhu bodhi's "in the buddha's words" translation anthology and it's good stuff. planning on reading the lotus sutra next but there are dozens of translations, and i can't trust amazon reviewers because there are too many new agers in there. what's the /lit/-approved lotus sutra?
lit does not approve of translations at all.
If you're not prepared to learn Sanskrit, then there's no point in reading the text.
>>9946283
>Sanskrit
no thanks
Just found out about this and it sounds fun. Does anyone have any of these book?
https://www.tunnelsandtrolls.com/project-type/solo-adventures/
Anything I should read before I start war and peace?
>>9946169
Nah you can just jump in dude
My fav book
Nothing. Go read it. Unless you think you should first familiarize yourself with Russian realism, in which case you should at least read Gogol ("The Overcoat" in particular), and also the earlier French realists, Balzac and Stendhal. But, before the realists you had the romantics. Russians Pushkin and Lermontov are generally classified as such, but they anticipated the realist movement. However, to put their best known main characters, Eugene Onegin and Pechorin, in proper context, one should first read Goethe's Werther and Byron. Before reading Wether, you should be familiar with The Poems of Ossian and, more importantly, Rousseau's philosophy and Confessions which greatly influenced Goethe.
You HAVE started with the Greeks, right?
A Wikipedia article on the Napoleonic Wars.
I'm starting to read Engelen van Apocalyps and it's pretty damn cool. Is anyone that already read it willing to talk about it for a bit?
Is any of his work not /r9k/-tier?
>>9946115
The World as Will and Representation definetly not, unless you fell for the edgy pessimistic meme
Anyone who uses "-tier" is incapable of thought.
>>9946185
kc tier post
What does /lit/ think of Tom Perrota?
Sentence is:
"It's simple enough to recognize this and not follow the sentiment like a __ follows __"
An animal or something natural would be preferential.
>bitch
>me
>>9946067
...like the foul smell follows a turd.
...like a pedophile follows a child.
...like your mother follows the tip of my dick.
Got your back, OP.
>>9946067
like a rabbit follows the hole
Is it okay to sell used book to someone if it's bad? For example, I have an awful edition of Brothers Karamazov, awful translation, billion typos etc.
I know I'll feel bad. How do I deal with this feeling?
>>9945984
Correct it by hand and then sell it.
>>9945984
By not selling it. Donate it.
>>9946050
It doesn't matter who gets them. They're not functional.