/lit/ - Literature

>>21975876
Where do you go to get just a verbal iq score

Books with descriptions of the afterlife and/or the condition of the dead? I'm already aware of the Odyssey, Plato's dialogues, and the Divine Comedy.

>>21780216
I make my mom listen to me talk about what I'm reading.

Just finished re-reading Nietzsche's Birth Of Tragedy for the fourth time and I still don't get it. What the fuck is Apollonian and Dionysian. What does he mean by saying Socrates killed tragedy with optimism.

>>21664724
>my brother
you guys just sound like larpers when you talk like this. If you really want to convert people you need to act normal.
t. christian

>>21658847
You can recommend a book without agreeing with the thesis

Can some Hegelian, or whoever is familiar with this gibberish tell me how Hegel circumvents the principle of sufficient ground without presupposing it? Because Hegel's logic presupposes language, language is only intelligible by means of the understanding (which results in intuitive cognition of space, time and causality which is matter), where sounds are converted into symbols which designate either concrete words such as "water" or "cold", which refer to perception or sensation; or abstract concepts which contain many species, for example "animal" contains "dog" or "cat".
Hegel claims that his epistemology is self-justifying, but this already presupposes the right to a justification, therefore "If we require a proof of it, or, in other words, a demonstration of its reason, we thereby already assume it to be true."

>>21615543
It wasn't very good, and ignores everything Tolstoy didn't like

What are the best books from the Middle Ages? I've been meaning to get into it for a while because of it's influence on popular culture but I'm not sure where to start.

>>21596146
You just don't get it.

My reading comprehension has been just fine with slow reading but I feel I could read more books if I speed read instead. Is speed reading as effective as slow reading when it comes to understanding books?

The fourfold root of sufficient reason by Schopey destroyed it.

Why is he always mad and yelling at me when I read his books?

>30 pages long preface summarizing the main ideas of the book
I do think they help in a better understanding of the book but kinda feels like they spoil the content since you're not understanding these concepts and reaching conclusions by yourself and allow other people to think for you. Also they make the book longer than it actually is. Does the average /lit/izen read these prefaces or just skip them? Should I even bother?

>>21512608
unironically why can't you just stop buying junk food?

Why does Nietzsche use so many exclamation marks. It feels like he's yelling at me. Can someone write like this nowadays and not give pseud vibes?

I've been reading Nietzsche and I kinda get what he means when talking about the death of God and its repercussions. But what I don't get is how the fuck God died. Haven't found a paragraph where Nietzsche explains this yet. The closest answer I've found is when he says some shit like "God had too much compassion for men". I interpret it as God was too stupid to give men free will, for them to just get over him. Did I get right or how the fuck God died?

I only have Nietzsche books on my shelf too and I wear glasses. Does that make me a chud?

>>21357083
>If you're implying I'm a girl, cope. I just enjoy having sex.
Boy you really are a fucking retard aren’t you

Ever since I bought Nietzsche's antichrist and put it on the shelf in my room I've been waking up at 3 am in the morning with thoughts about demons in my room. Do similar things happen to you when you buy antireligious literature

There is nothing wrong with axiomatic grounding in itself. It's only a problem in the sense that it has zero persuasive power since it can't be shown to follow from a previous fact the other person would agree to - it must be the fact the other person agrees to, or the conversation is over. But that does not inherently make something false.

>>21043768
Using highlighters is pretty much the only way I can focus on reading. It forces me to engage. I use a different color highlighter for every read which actually makes the rereads more interesting for me because I can see the evolution of what got my attention for every previous read.

Tolkien's Three Elven Rings can be applicable to the internet today: people wanted to use it as a means of conserving things (information, texts, books, opinions) forever, to resist the effects of time. But it's subject to the Ruling Ring, that is, the monopolistic corporations and governments, that can actually erase things forever and, via the internet, effectively control the wills of others.

Every war larper is just a dude who legit wants to kill himself or find an excuse to kill people (because they hate people). Not saying there is no good in war, but mate I don't want to die in a horrible way