What’s the point of reading literature? Philosophy I can sort of get, there’s though provoking arguments and what if and speculation and such, but literature? Seems like they’re just stories.t. 115 iq stem student
>>24828443Literature is philosophy just told through stories instead of autistic thought experiments obfuscated behind made up words.
What's wrong with stories?
How often can you really look inside someone's head as closely as when reading a novel? You also have to consider that it's historic insight into the ways of prior thought. Nothing else will give you this.
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>>24828443Enjoyment
>>24828443Fiction is infinitely more significant than nonfiction. Great literature shows us the nature of life and of ourselves. Hamlet’s monologues and Raskolnikov’s paranoid ramblings and Benjy’s whimpering as he holds on to the fence, all these are more than just particular situations. They are the clearest and most beautiful representations of life itself, and should be contemplated seriously.
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>>24828443story important. before manual and religious text, man have story to tell about value and honort. 139 iq grug
>>24828443What’s the point of reading philsophy? Literature I can sort of get, there’s pleasurable escapism and the exploration of universal archetypes and societal critique and such, but philosophy? Seems like it's just old men being snarky while still supporting the system they depend on.t. 115 iq stem student
>>24828443it makes me feel less depressed in this dogmatically rational world that seeks to remove the human element from everythingt. 135 iq stem student
>>24828443There are like 3 philosophers worth reading, but there is so much damn literature...
>>24828443To teach you how to be another human.t. 150 iq math student
>>24828443Aesthetic experience, first and foremost. If you can read below the surface, great literature (In Search of Lost Time, for instance) is essentially philosophy, only entangled and coded into prose and narrative (in this case, an exceedingly ornate one, and a barely existent story). Philosophy tells, literature shows. I don't expect materialists who can only perceive the world in terms of productivity and "usefulness" to understand that. My STEM friends certainly don't; that's why they watch Japanese cartoons or whatever's trending on Netflix. That's about as far as their cultivation of their inner world goes.
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>>24828443A milieu of emotions, relations, histories and minds opens up when reading others. Writing may just open yours.
>>24828443It teaches empathy through exposure of the inner life of others. I remember reading Martha Nussbaum writing about this, comparing tragic plays in Ancient Greece to modern literature with regards to this.
>>24830715Tech Stemmers are fundamentally uninterested in humans, they keep making apps to sell free information and cut the price of labor because it makes them money, I think they have no internal monologue the mind of a chimp collecting fruit.
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