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Should philosophers just be metaphysicians?
Philosophers/philosophies who go and change the world cause tragedies anyways.
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>>8093933
Somewhat related:
>The early Didascalicon was an elementary, encyclopedic approach to God and Christ, in which Hugh avoided controversial subjects and focused on what he took to be commonplaces of Catholic Christianity. In it he outlined three types of philosophy or "science" [scientia] that can help mortals improve themselves and advance toward God: theoretical philosophy (theology, mathematics, physics) provides them with truth, practical philosophy (ethics, economics, politics) aids them in becoming virtuous and prudent, and "mechanical" or "illiberal" philosophy (e.g., carpentry, agriculture, medicine) yields physical benefits. A fourth philosophy, logic, is preparatory to the others and exists to ensure clear and proper conclusions in them. Hugh's deeply mystical bent did not prevent him from seeing philosophy as a useful tool for understanding the divine, or from using it to argue on behalf of faith.
>Hugh was heavily influenced by Augustine's exegesis of Genesis. Divine Wisdom was the archetypal form of creation. The creation of the world in six days was a mystery for man to contemplate, perhaps even a sacrament. God's forming order from chaos to make the world was a message to humans to rise up from their own chaos of ignorance and become creatures of Wisdom and therefore beauty. This kind of mystical-ethical interpretation was typical for Hugh, who tended to find Genesis interesting for its moral lessons rather than as a literal account of events.
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>>8093933
Giving you an excuse to be a loser is not a tragedy for the world.
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>>8093933
Existence is a tragedy already. By your logic, doing ANYTHING would be pointless then. Which is true, but judging from you post, you don't seem to have internalized this truth.
Will we ever see a breakthrough book about transgender people like the way TKAM was for blacks?
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>>8093910
nope. transhumanism has a chance, but transgender/lgbt issues are just a bunch of early 21-st sjw nonsense
come back when you're ok with the idea that humans are biological automata that have no inherent right per-se
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>>8093910
>when you're such shit that you need fiction to make a case for treating you like people
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Maybe you should go write one and stop making shit threads desu.
What makes a "good" title? What are some titles you like, and why?
Picture unrelated
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lets talk about that picture instead for 300+ replies
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>>8093912
Just imagine marilyn monroe taking a big black cock.
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>>8093901
When was "the hood" anything to be proud of?
Some believe that humans are progressing for the better. In this writing I'll show points against their belief. Thus, what I write will be a list of controversial statements, against the course of humanity. We are nearing World War III – some are so relaxed and passive that they will say “You believe that, seriously? C'mon!”. It's important to be aware of the times, and in these times, people are intelligent to talk on behalf of knowledge of politics,when political questions are asked. Politics, shouldn't be an understanding of capitalism, but an understanding of human nature and world conditions. Peace, for a long time, with less gruelling work, is the potential of society. Society is wrecked by people who insult others, especially into their understanding of world conditions and human nature. People who talk like this are accepted, by even moderators here on reddit. These people ruin our experience and cause us to make mistakes, but mainly they promote what isn't true. Continuation of false politics. Our consumption rates are too high, and we're very evil to nature. People will say “why does the world matter?” as if a sarcastic recital to a onlooking philosopher audience. Philosophy in these times is a risky field, you lose intelligence with the philosopher that's being taught. You eat, drink, and sleep; over the course of that time, you question whether you or others should live. This is illogical, and it mutilates dreams of a greater future, everyone is more unintelligent for listening to your question. People live, and subsequently, they live over a course of time; during this time you show evidence that you want to live. If your mind is this unstable, do you not have a mental incapacity in a way that there is a need for you to be seen by a mental health expert? You visually promote species-suicidal things, promote suicide, and make others feel suicidal by throwing insults at the people who are sometimes smarter than you. Scientists have picked up this behaviour, and it's a different cool to have some aggression. This is to disguise a false scientific process. It's a science to be wise, and when you are wise you are a scientist; you understand how things work, you will go about learning about the universe – the science taught is propaganda in light of promoting high consumption rates, world war 3, and although this can be appealing to us, it's not an intelligent view, it's intelligent pure.
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ur a faget
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Faggot.
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Talk about long winded. Your entire argument can be summed up in two words: be yourself.
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Favorite Poets and Recommendations
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Post some of your personal favorite poets, others can recommend similar ones who you might enjoy.
I'll start
>Crane
>Eliot
>Rimbaud
>Wallace Stevens
>W.S. Merwin
>Baudelaire
>Yeats
>Brodsky
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Those are some great poets, OP.
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>>8093794
Thank you, I forgot to add Pound but he's also wonderful. I realize the thread idea sounds a bit silly but I just want to learn more of /lit/'s tastes, and I figure if 3x3 threads work on /mu/, the concept should translate well enough.
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Dylan Thomas and Thomas Hardy will do OP
ITT: Post your favorite
philosophy quotes
music lyrics
movie lines
novel lines
poems
etc...
You get the idea. A string of words orchestrated to make ya brain jizz.
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People disappearing,abductions and others by altering themselves and reality by recreating various missing outside situations or your mind will return to the past,time travel,speed,invisibility,nightlights,stores,tired yet pet of the pukes hungrily pulling your sleeping genitals,draining energy,stuck in this nest,replacing people,clones.
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My sweet little whorish Nora I did as you told me, you dirty little girl, and pulled myself off twice when I read your letter. I am delighted to see that you do like being fucked arseways. Yes, now I can remember that night when I fucked you for so long backwards. It was the dirtiest fucking I ever gave you, darling. My prick was stuck in you for hours, fucking in and out under your upturned rump. I felt your fat sweaty buttocks under my belly and saw your flushed face and mad eyes. At every fuck I gave you your shameless tongue came bursting out through your lips and if a gave you a bigger stronger fuck than usual, fat dirty farts came spluttering out of your backside. You had an arse full of farts that night, darling, and I fucked them out of you, big fat fellows, long windy ones, quick little merry cracks and a lot of tiny little naughty farties ending in a long gush from your hole. It is wonderful to fuck a farting woman when every fuck drives one out of her. I think I would know Nora’s fart anywhere. I think I could pick hers out in a roomful of farting women. It is a rather girlish noise not like the wet windy fart which I imagine fat wives have. It is sudden and dry and dirty like what a bold girl would let off in fun in a school dormitory at night. I hope Nora will let off no end of her farts in my face so that I may know their smell also.
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Sometimes im wishing that my Dick had Go Pro
So I can play that shit back in slow-Mo
i Just shot an amateur video i Think i should
go Pro
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Started reading this one yesterday. Really liking it so far. What do you guys think of it / other works by Cook?
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>>8093705
Ive only read the next three books in that series. I liked them all, but I've heard that they eventually take a sharp dip in quality.
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>>8094029
I've heard the same, not going to bother reading them. Have you heard anything about his other books that aren't related to this series?
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>>8093705
I think the first 3 books were good, but the first one is the best.
Sorry IDK about the others. Someone recommended "Gardens of the Moon" to me after I read that but I can't understand what's going on in that book
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What's the consensus on Jane Austen? I've never read anything by her, but this new movie's getting great reviews.
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Someone should tell them they spelt the title wrong.
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I feel like she's one of those authors you read within the context of their own time. How can I put this... you read certain authors to get a good feel of what literature and the novel were like at a certain point in history. The quality of her writing is so-so, but if you find yourself liking other works from that time period, give it a go.
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>The quality of her writing is so-so
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Best literature/author/book for dealing with depression, existencial crisis, or just looking for ANY answers...?
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>>8093596
My diary t-b-h
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Dostoevski
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>>8093624
this
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Shakespeare
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[not OP]
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>>8093641
Who do you work for?
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>>8093651
*whom
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What are some good reads about libertarianism and the natural rights of the individual?
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>>8093544
>natural rights
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Atlas Shrugged
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>>8093544
Yeah there's a lot of great books written about poorly emotionally developed people projecting their insecurities onto whacky political beliefs
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>people think it's impressive to speak multiple languages with the same character set and 50% vocabulary overlap
Sorry but I don't even consider these people bilingual. Come back when you know an Asian language.
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>>8093464
I know Japanese, everyone assumes I'm a weeb.
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>>8093492
If you can't read novels without a dictionary you don't "know" a language.
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I'm six chapters in and my shit-tier sense is tingling. Am I wrong about this book or should I have already dropped it?
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>reading YA poo in loo
Why did you ever picked it.
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>>8093368
Because 'The Old Man and the Sea' was already loaned out to someone else.
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keep reading. I recommend picking up "Eat, Pray, Love" next
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Hi /lit/ What do you think about polish literature? Do you know: Mickiewicz, Słowacki, Sienkiewicz...? What's your favorite authore and book? What do you think about polish sentimental literature in XIX century?
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>>8093165
awful
awful
awful
Poland has no good works prior to the XX century, and they're all poetry or drama
*maybe* prose if you aren't picky, but very, very little of it
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>>8093169
Well, at least we've got the most develope literature in East Europe(expect Russia, but who know?). Compare us to rest east europeans and you understand, that we are closer to West than to East
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>>8093185
but who knows? are you fucking serious? who in his fucking right mind would even compare the two together?
So I'm working on a short story series
It's based around battles and reworking them
but in fiction stories, what are some big/famous battles?
(such as battle of Mordor, helms deeps, et cetera)
I just want a big comprehensive list of y'alls favorite fictional (can be horror, scifi, fantasy, anything) battles
So let's make a list, and if possible, WHY you like that battle
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Raskolnikov's battle against the pawnbroker and her sister.
Don Quijote's battle against the windmills.
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>>8093164
Battle of the 300 Champions
literally just look it up
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Every time I try to write something with muh swords I get this nagging feeling that Im not capable of describing a believable fight no matter how much I read on it, wish I could learn fencing or some HEMA shit but I live in the middle of nowhere and that is simply not possible.
Same with large scale armies, Im reading The Art of war but I wish I could find something that went on autistic detail on the tactics of an encounter.