/lit/ - Literature

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>>16545674
>Law must have a basis in something
Law is based on a few creditable emotions, and many discreditable ones.

>>16531705
>>16532701
I think it's way more likely that Diogenes is accusing the young man of being a bookstore slut and an hypocrite. In other words, the books are just an affectation that the man uses to attract a pederastic lover. Women in Ancient Greece and Rome wore veils in public and were basically excluded from society like in the Islamic world today, so this definitely doesn't refer to heterosexual attraction. The young man is probably just looking at books in order to look for an erastes, similar to how a woman today may hang out at a bookstore to attract a man. To such a woman a modern Diogenes might say "it's good that you want to settle down."

>>16128224
Nietzsche showed up to philosophy when all the good ideas had been used up at least 400 years before, so he came up with some bad ones.

Is civilization a giant cope so we can avoid thinking about death? Was Diogenes therefore right all along?

>>15115407
Buddhism is just mentally paralyzing. What's so significant about impermanence and non-being that I should shake up my whole life for it? The answer is that it's truly irrelevant nihilism dressed up as serious philosophy. It's an idea that should have lost relevance within a generation of being committed to paper, and it would have, had the Buddhists not gotten smart and took their boring philosophy and combined it with whatever gods the locals worshiped.

Literally the only thing they have to teach is meditation, but even that's a stretch. I don't need any education from a Buddhist to empty my mind.

In short, there are serious philosophies that have galvanized human achievement and they are all western; Platonism, Christianity, Liberalism, and Rationalism to name a few. The east has nothing to offer in terms of thought but a few meme-tier scratchings on a cave-wall.

>>11701327
yes, i am a rank 5 stoic. you are an imbecile for thinking you could inflict suffering to me in any way.
BOW DOWN.