/lit/ - Literature

>>7456186
Yes.

>>7373503
Read a bunch of Aristotle. Then read Aquinas. Then read my namesake and embrace the call of virtue.

>>7356841
Adi Shankara?

>>7307634
Joy, the Victorious Protector

>>7301797
Nichomachean Ethics.

>>7271958
Yeah, you really inherit a range of possible IQs. Environment shapes the rest.
The thing is, though, the rage can be pretty wide. Inheritance may ensure that you'll be of above average intelligence, but environment will determine whether it's, say, 115 or 125. And so on. Someone born with the potential for average IQ could become above-average through training, though they'll never become a 160 IQ genius. Though they will be able to get scores of 160 on IQ tests if they practice enough, which is just one among the many, many things that suggest that IQ maybe isn't the end-all-be-all of psychometry.

>>7267974
>Kant
>Aristotle
>Adi Shankara
>Newton
>Caesar

>>7261504
Yes, it's Butler.
I felt weird almost understanding it... can't even imagine what it feels like to read that and to just take it in as though it's normal English.

>>7255317
The move from a structuralist account in which capital is understood to structure social relations in relatively homologous ways to a view of hegemony in which power relations are subject to repetition, convergence, and rearticulation brought the question of temporality into the thinking of structure, and marked a shift from a form of Althusserian theory that takes structural totalities as theoretical objects to one in which the insights into the contingent possibility of structure inaugurate a renewed conception of hegemony as bound up with the contingent sites and strategies of the rearticulation of power. And there's something terribly sad and banal about that.

>>7254608
>Oxford
>English MA
Oxford doesn't give out English MAs. For Oxbridge, an MA is what you get after you've had your BA for a couple of years. You're thinking of an MLitt or something.

What a dumb fucking copypasta.

>>7256039
Enjoy!

>>7250919
>thinking you can make a bad writer into a good one in the course of a few months
LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL
It takes years, dude. Sometimes even decades. If you really want to make a bad writer into a good one, keep in touch with them over and give them in-depth tips, making sure they work at it for hours and hours every week. If you do that, they'll surely improve.
The problem isn't that they don't have the potential, it's that there's nobody around to give them the help they'd need (and that they probably don't really want to git that gud).

>>7246509
Through The Looking Glass, you dumb faggots.

>>7233424
>Lacan
>no Plato and Aristotle
>no Descartes
>no Hume
>no Nietzsche
>etc

>>7229340
Start with Aristotle. Read Nichomachean Ethics.

>>7210607
>sounds like poorfaggotry
No thanks.

OP, try German.

>>7198336
>Humanity isn't operating within the constraints of evolution and hasn't been ever since farming.
lol

>>7192707
Neo-Aristotelianism.
Read my namesake's book On Virtue Ethics. You'll see the light.

>>7193586
The Aeneid.

>>7165927
You're overqualified, you dumb faggot. They don't need people like you as teachers. Go get your Nursing degree or whatever the fuck and shut up.

>>7135117
Yeah? Well, I'm a newborn with an IQ of 9001 and a 20-foot dick. I've only read 1500 books, and I only speak thirty languages fluently... but then, I've only been alive for about two weeks.

>>7134834
Also, Yudkowsky is a dumb retard who's convinced he's a genius. His high IQ hasn't managed to save him from a life of autistic faggotry. So there's that, too.

Actually, MoR was pretty entertaining for the first few chapters. But more like a novelty than anything else.

>>7132736
>Tell me a realistic way the bourgeoisie could destroy the warrior-nobility and clergy and still have a decent society afterwards. What rules and values this said society would have?
We'd be fine without them, I promise you.
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