/lit/ - Literature

>>4663821
>Life is never simple.
Nor is it ever hard, then.

>you will be trapped into axioms you make for yourself and you'll never know that much about anything.
You seem confused. Are you sure you know what the word 'know' implies here? Without axioms your knowledge would cease to exist.

>are afraid of the third one, you choose the second.
False dichotomy, tripfag.

>>4600640

>>4218742
>psychology
>science

>>4090810
>seriously believes the French Revolution wasn't something that was relevant for the cause of bringing about liberty throughout Europe and the Americas

>>4052617
>feminist
>cunt

Oh wow.

>>3530615
>Bertrand Russell

>>3451129
>perfect ethics will eventually gain us mastery over our neo-cortex

stopped reading here.

i think it's safe to kill yourself now.

>>3393413

ITT we take quotes completely out of context.

"...our rulers will then have to use a lot of drugs."
-Plato, Republic

>>3349429

>>3337439
>I have watch hours of debates with him in it and he seems like a very friendly guy who is generally respectful

there are no words

>>3312284

You sound the fool to be so illiberal with your tongue... your post is truly cringeworthy. You also gave it away that you haven't read much- if you knew the titles I listed, you would know that they are exciting for a young reader.

Moreover, you have disappointed us all in failing to list some works that would be "new", that wouldn't "..bore HS kids to fucking death and make them hate reading".

I've got a hunch that you are a highschooler who stumbled upon this board from /b/: "pretentious bullshit, motherfucking this, some shit that"... That's giving you the benefit of the doubt.

>>3294352
>luckily nothing justifies ethics or aesthetics, because they are totally meaningless fields of mental masturbation
>luckily nothing justifies ethics or aesthetics, because they are totally meaningless fields of mental masturbation
>luckily nothing justifies ethics or aesthetics, because they are totally meaningless fields of mental masturbation
>neurology will explain why and how we come to ethical/aesthetic judgments.
>neurology will explain why and how we come to ethical/aesthetic judgments.
>neurology will explain why and how we come to ethical/aesthetic judgments.

who let the retards out of /sci/?

6/10 for successfully rustling my jimmies

>>3221043
the goof is strong in this one.

it is what it means, sport.

i'll just assume you haven't been reading much philosophy, youngster, if you happen to think you have any thoughts of your own, that you can call "your own", bub.

>>3020553
gotta get it now
same with the penguin edition of the vivisector
they're playing the old mst3000 gambit

>>>/sci/5050515

>>2890597
>apply your critical thinking skills, op. i'm sure you can figure out how reading fiction could teach you about the world around you.

brb reading LOTR series

HOLY MOTHER OF FUCK I CAN RIDE A DRAGON NOW
THANK YOU BASED J. R. R. TOLKIEN AND CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS

>>2858225

>>2562953

ITT: Things that piss you off about creative writing workshops.

>Ask 40-year old wannabe intellectual what she thinks about the Hero's Journey.

>"Oh, that's all bullshit. I hate formulaic writing."

>>2345080
>every part