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What does /lit/ know of the Seven Liberal Arts ?
Pythagorean 3-4-5 Triangle is a good symbol to conceptualize the Trivium, Quadrivium
The Trivium is a systematic method of critical thinking
The Trivium: The three arts of language pertaining to the mind
Grammar art of inventing and combining words
Logic art of thinking
Rhetoric art of communication
The Quadrivium: The four arts of quantity pertaining to matter
Continuous quantity
Geometry theory of space
Astronomy application of the theory of space
>>8215170
>The Quadrivium
Discrete quantity of number
Arithmetic theory of number
Music application of theory of number
The Pythagoreans considered all mathematical science to be divided into four parts: one half they marked off as concerned with quantity, the other half with magnitude; and each of these they posited as twofold. A quantity can be considered in regard to its character by itself or in its relation to another quantity, magnitudes as either stationary or in motion. Arithmetic, then, studies quantities as such, music the relations between quantities, geometry magnitude at rest, spherics [astronomy] magnitude inherently moving
What does /lit/ know of the 5 Platonic Solids ?
>had had
>>8215143
>An historical
>but then
>myriad
What should i read by him?
How To Be a Drunken Little French Rent Boy
How To Swindle The Boring Folk Into Believing You're A Talented Poet By Writing Prolix Letters To Your Sister
How To Become A Role Model To Pseuds, Benders & Other Cunts In The Twenty First Century
I hate niggers.
What should I read?
The Souls of Black Folk
>>8215130
Instructions on the quickest, most effective way to commit suicide. I bet you're even dumber than a nigger.
Lovecraft. He regularly makes them responsible for the apocalypse.
When is the appropriate age to start introducing your children to the Greeks? I've started reading The Republic to my 6 year old and he doesn't seem to be getting it despite it being easily the most understandable of Plato's works. Is he doomed to be a pleb for life?
If you really want to start little kids on the Greeks, read them Aesop's fables. Maybe introduce them to some of Plato's analogies (the cave, etc.).
Once they've finished those you should be able to move them onto Hegel and Lacan.
>not reading them fables or myths
Did you read him Homer, Hesiod, Protagoras, Pythagoras, Socrates, and Heraclitus first? If not, it's your fault he doesn't understand it.
The best thing Bush did in his entire career was 9/11.
>>8214973
damn...
>>8214964
If it looks like a duck, and it quacks like a duck, then it's a duck.
What are your favorite books of the decade so far?
The only thing I've read and enjoyed that was published in the last five years was Marlon James's Brief History, and I only lucked out with that after buying it for a stupid reason.
Hanya Yanagihara's A Little Life tore me apart.
As did The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro.
>>8214887
>Hanya Yanagihara's A Little Life
Seconded, but I don't think the average 4chan user would like it or take it seriously.
Zone - Mathias Enard
I was going to post a few more books but I realized you meant 2010s, not the last ten years.
I need the name of this book/comic/whatever you call it.
>>8214843
just reverse image search it you fucking mong
KATE BEATON IS A FUCKING HACK
>>8214843
super mutant magic academy
How do we get people to start reading books again?
fuck off, barnes and nobles, if you want me to consult for you then pay me.
get more stephen kings and jk rowlings.
Put chemicals in the water that increases people's IQ and also give them many more hours of free time in each day.
ITT things that only people who have no idea what philosophy is would say
>muh "start with Greek philosophy"
"analytics matter"
"Philosophy was born in Ancient Greece"
I have Aphantasia, sounds cool but is a terribleness curse
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-34039054
>tl;dr I can't make mental images so my mind is always black
I cannot, therefore, create scenes in my mind. So I can't enjoy Harry potter or whatever since I can't make up the scene.
Any recommendations? Preferably non-fiction or at least superb fiction that doesn't require much imagination ;_;
>>8214775
>sounds cool
No, it doesn't.
how do you even know if you have this? I mean, I can't really imagine anything, does that mean that I have it?
>>8214962
Imagine a cozy cabin in the winter.
Now describe your mental picture to me. If you can, you don't have this.
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-naughty-and-nice-sides-of-dragons#/
>the nicest guy you'll ever meet vs twisted fucking psychopath
>>8215742
>the nicest wyrm you'll ever meet vs twisted fucking dracolich*
>Only YOU can help publish this book and enlighten the blind masses of Bosnia & Herzegovina. Together, with each book we shall spread democratic rights, furry fandom, artistic and sexual freedom where it is needed the most.
>My name is Luka also known as Luksina the Dragon, I come from Bosnia & Herzegovina, and I have been writing fantasy fiction since I was 12 years old. Later, I went into the waters of writing erotic furry fantasy fiction, specializing in dragons, where I even managed to gain a humble following from the furry community.
You know what ? I would totally buy it just to expose it in front of my collection
I'm sick to my stomah at the cringe from having read this.
>I have the Barnes and Noble Classic series version.
>I've read many reviews that it isn't a good translation. I agree with that, I'm trying to read it, but I find myself annoyed with way the book is written, not the book itself.
>I was wondering, do you know any translations that are SIMPLE and EASY TO UNDERSTAND.
>I don't like translations/books that have difficult vocabulary.
>I don't like having to look up in the dictionary every word I read, it gets old pretty quickly.
>I also don't like reading translations that say things in weird ways like for example "Happy are you not?", and writing styles similar to Shakespeare and Old English. I like writing styles that are modern, simple, and easy to understand.
>I want to focus as much attention as possible on the actual material of the book and little to no attention at all to how it is written. I simply don't care about sophisticated writing. I like simple and easy writing.
>So I was wondering, do you guys know of any translations for Plato's Republic that is easy to understand and doesn't have lots of complicated vocabulary?
>>8214647
>I've read many reviews that it isn't a good translation. I agree with that, I'm trying to read it, but I find myself annoyed with way the book is written, not the book itself.
surely this one's understandable?
>>8214647
>mfw im reading a b&n classic right now
>>8214654
I guess my reaction to that is, " well no shit, it's a Barnes and Noble edition of Plato"
Furthermore she wants a non verbose Plato
How /lit/ is your job? Do you or could you read while working?
>>8214547
>How /lit/ is your job? Do you or could you read while working?
Not very. Yes, I manage to read for two hours a day at work, one hour as soon as I get there and the other right after my lunchbreak. But I only read news publications.
Freight train conductor here. Get to read a good bit when meeting other trains in sidings and before departing and sometimes a bit after arriving if they need to fuel is.
insurance adjuster. lots of downtime throughout the day, i read at my desk pretty often.
Anyone else hyped?
Captain Underpants was the first book I read that was more than 30 pages so itll always hold a special place in my heart.
Fuck that fag shit and the books.
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